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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The minimal energy state during which no network connection is active or required.






2. Where Android is currently primarily developed






3. It doesn't currently support the <merge/> tag in the layouts to be inflated.






4. The ____ lifetime of an activity happens between the call to onStart() and the call to onStop().






5. Conversion of an object to XML






6. Answers queries about the state of network connectivity. It also notifies applications when network connectivity changes.






7. The industry standard way to deal with authentication to third-party services.






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






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






10. For example - if your activity has a thread running in the background to download data from the network - it might create that thread in _____ and then stop the thread in _____






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






12. This is a readable source of bytes.






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






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






15. Callback method: The activity is being created.






16. 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.






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






18. An open source stand alone database






19. It provides a simple way to perform your work outside the main thread.






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






21. This class exposes a number of methods for applications to receive location updates.






22. _____ are views that provide a visual (and interactive) elements for the screen - such as a button - text field - checkbox - or just an image.






23. The Android framework has a large set of these classes for interacting with the user and displaying various types of data.






24. Direct component call in Android






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






26. This widget as an item in the action bar is the preferred way to provide search in your app.






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






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






29. In most cases this will offer greater bandwidth at a significantly lower battery cost.






30. Android request its permission using its ________






31. Shows the actual amount of memory the application uses






32. Sharing of data in Android is done via________






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






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






35. This includes tools to help you identify problems in your layout performance.






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






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






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






39. This is the simplest way to monitor device state changes.






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






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






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






43. This is the main class through which your application can access location services on Android.






44. Callback method: The activity is no longer visible






45. This provides methods to define line's color - whether to fill a rectangle with a color or leave it empty - and defines the color - style - font - and so forth of each shape you draw.






46. The most common way to define a layout using views is with an XML layout file saved in your ______






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






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






49. Once a connection has been established - the app uses this method to retrieve the data as an InputStream.






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