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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Creating drawing objects within this method significantly reduces performance and can make your UI appear sluggish.






2. 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?






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






4. It is the process of lowering your audio stream output volume to make transient audio from another app easier to hear without totally disrupting the audio from your own application.






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






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






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






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






9. Where Android is currently primarily developed






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






11. This is an interface which is used to pass image data from the camera hardware to the application.






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






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






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






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






16. It is used to load images in a background thread - then apply them to the UI once finished.






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






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






19. Callback method: Another activity is taking focus






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






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






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






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






24. Necessary tools to develop Android applications






25. An intermediate state that uses around 50% of the battery power at the full state.






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






27. The helper method is used to create the final width and height values.






28. Relative to pixels and resolution screen






29. An _______ is an application component that provides a screen 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.






30. Android system uses a special virtual machine to run java based applicatons






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






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






33. Callback method: The activity has become visible.






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






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






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






37. Conversion of an object to XML






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






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






40. This broadcasts an action whenever the device is connected or disconnected from power.






41. It is a subclass of PreferenceActivity.






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






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






44. Callback method: The activity is being created.






45. Android request its permission using its ________






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






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






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






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






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