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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. An open source stand alone database






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






3. Direct component call in Android






4. Android is __________.






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. An open source group led by Google






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






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






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






13. 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






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






15. Callback method: The activity is about to be destroyed.






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






17. Sharing of data in Android is done via________






18. Callback method: Another activity is taking focus






19. A mode where navigation is set up with a spinner widget.






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






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






22. Converts XML Document to XML DOM






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






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






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






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






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






28. It is a subclass of PreferenceActivity.






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






30. 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.






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






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






33. Perform background tasks without providing a user interface






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






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






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






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






38. 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.






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






40. 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?






41. Conversion of XML back to an object






42. This is a readable source of bytes.






43. Callback method: The activity is no longer visible.






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






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






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






47. Evaluation of registered components






48. Where Android is currently primarily developed






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






50. 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 _____