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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This broadcasts all battery and charging details in a sticky Intent that includes the charging status.






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






3. 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 _____






4. This is used to convert raw touch events into gestures.






5. Callback method: Another activity is taking focus






6. Represents the visual representation of an Android application






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






8. An open source stand alone database






9. The minimal energy state during which no network connection is active or required.






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






11. 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.






12. Conversion of an object to XML






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






14. Theseare a key part of Android applications that directly affect the user experience.






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






16. Are used in activities to create the user interface and to interact with the user.






17. This callback method of the audio focus change listener you registered when requesting audio focus receives a parameter that describes the focus change event.






18. Conversion of XML back to an object






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






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






21. It is an HTTP client that is used for applications targeted at Gingerbread and higher.






22. Callback method: The activity has become visible.






23. Where Android is currently primarily developed






24. It is a subclass of PreferenceActivity.






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






26. Use this to draw text.






27. If you want your APK to be visible on TVs which are non-touchscreen devices you should add this to your manifest.






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






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






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






31. This action is used in sending text content from one activity to another.






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






33. Describes the status of a network interface of a given type (currently either Mobile or Wi-Fi).






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






35. 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






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






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






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






39. It is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form.






40. Used when a connection is active - allowing the device to transfer data at its highest possible rate.






41. 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?






42. Callback method: The activity is being created.






43. Callback method: The activity is no longer visible






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






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






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






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






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






49. This class defines abstract methods that you must override so that your database table can be created and upgraded when necessary.






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