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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A mode where navigation is set up with a spinner widget.






2. This can be used to draw previews of what the camera sensor is picking up.






3. Direct component call in Android






4. For example - a ____ might be a button that initiates an action when the user touches it.






5. It is used as a reverse-geocoding where translating latitude longitude coordinates to a human-readable address happens.






6. A service in which programmers can offer their Android application to Android users.






7. The entire lifetime of an activity happens between the call to _____ and the call to _____






8. In order to get a list of accounts on the device - your app needs this permission.






9. This is used to check that you're actually connected to the Internet and what type of connection is in place.






10. Use this to draw text.






11. Once installed on a device - each Android application lives in its own ______






12. ______ are views derived from ViewGroup that provide a unique layout model for its child views






13. This is set up to animate for the duration of the fling.






14. This defines how the SearchView behaves and is defined in a res/xml/searchable.xml file.






15. In order for the AccountManager to work with your custom account code - you need this class that implements the interfaces that AccountManager expects.






16. It inform the system what intents an application component is willing to accept.






17. On a rooted device - the credentials would be readable by anyone with this access to the device.






18. You can set the layout as the UI for your activity with passing the resource ID for the layout.






19. Callback method: The activity is being created.






20. When an activity is stopped because a new activity starts - it is notified of this change in state through the activity's _______ .






21. This is a base class supplied by Android framework - which you can extend to create your own custom authenticator.






22. For instance - when stopped - your activity should release any large ____ - such as network or database connections.






23. Your activity should perform setup of "global" state (such as defining layout) in ____ and release all remaining resources in _____






24. This class computes scroll positions for you - but it does not automatically apply those positions to your view.






25. This is used for the need of finer control over your view's layout parameters.






26. This behaves similarly to a SQLite table - but reads and writes to an object in memory via callbacks - instead of to a database file.






27. Converts XML Document to XML DOM






28. The easiest way to create an authenticator class is to extend this and implement its abstract methods.






29. These helpers are specialized classes for backing up certain kinds of data.






30. The ____ lifetime of an activity happens between the call to onCreate() and the call to onDestroy().






31. Represents the visual representation of an Android application






32. To create an activity - you must create a subclass of






33. This class is the basis for handling flywheel-style fling gestures.






34. Most network-connected Android apps use this to send and receive data.






35. The visible lifetime of an activity happens between the call to ____ and the call to ______






36. Amode where the action bar is set up with tabs for navigation.






37. This method returns the inflated View once complete so you don't need to call findViewById() if you need to interact with the layout.






38. This is a lightweight view with no dimension and doesn't draw anything or participate in the layout.






39. Binary data is shared using the ACTION_SEND action combined with setting the appropriate MIME type and placing the URI to the data in an extra named called?






40. Callback method: The activity has become visible.






41. A styleable entity that contains these two custom attributes: showText and labelPosition.






42. It's generally a good idea for one of your APKs to support this texture format as it is supported by all Android-powered devices that support the OpenGL ES 2.0 spec.






43. It includes a Detailed Network Usage tab that makes it possible to track when your application is making network requests.






44. It is a lightweight mechanism used to transmit data from a server to a particular app instance.






45. If permissions are missing - the application will get this at runtime.






46. Perform background tasks without providing a user interface






47. It made implementing an effective and user friendly share action in your ActionBar even easier.






48. The Android SDK tools include a tool that allows you to analyze your layout while your application is running.






49. It typically consumes more energy than 3G - which is in turn more expensive than 2G.






50. Each activity can then start another activity in order to perform different actions. Each time a new activity starts - the previous activity is stopped - but the system preserves the activity in a ___ .