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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In most cases this will offer greater bandwidth at a significantly lower battery cost.






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






3. Each time a new activity starts - the previous activity is stopped - but the system preserves the activity in a _____ (the ______).






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






5. This broadcasts all battery and charging details in a sticky Intent that includes the charging status.






6. The receiver is triggered whenever the device battery becomes low or exits the low condition by listening for this two.






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






8. Callback method: The activity is no longer visible






9. The dock-state details are included as an extra in a sticky broadcast of this action.






10. Android provides this handy method to direct volume key presses to the audio stream the user specify.






11. An Activity is an application ______ that provides a _______ with which users can interact in order to do something - such as dial the phone - take a photo - send an email - or view a map






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






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






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






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






16. This object contains an account name - which for Google accounts is an email address.






17. Creating drawing objects within this method significantly reduces performance and can make your UI appear sluggish.






18. Use this to draw bitmaps.






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






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






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






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






23. Callback method: The activity is being created.






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






25. This is used to fetch the account names that the user has stored on their device.






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






27. Android request its permission using its ________






28. Relative to pixels and resolution screen






29. Sharing of data in Android is done via________






30. 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 ___ .






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






32. It provides a single value - called an auth token that represents both the user's identity and the application's authorization to act on the user's behalf.






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






34. When a new activity starts - it is pushed onto the ____ and takes user focus.






35. Whenever the device is docked or undocked - this action is broadcast.






36. is run when running Android on the pc






37. It is an efficient and maintainable way to parse XML on Android.






38. The back stack abides to the basic "last in - first out" stack mechanism - so - when the user is done with the current activity and presses the Back button - it is popped from the stack (and ____) and the ____ activity resumes






39. To define custom attributes - add this resources to your project.






40. Android is __________.






41. This is the most common input event in the Android system.






42. Direct component call in Android






43. Conversion of an object to XML






44. Where Android is currently primarily developed






45. Evaluation of registered components






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






47. This class provides one of the simplest ways to fire off a new task from the UI thread.






48. PieChart exposes a custom event to notify listeners that the user has rotated the pie chart to focus on a new pie slice.






49. It is a free service for sending messages to Android devices.






50. Use this to draw text.