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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. Conversion of XML back to an object






2. Theseclasses simplify the steps required to enhance your app with powerful platform features or effectively optimize your app performance.






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






4. This is used to register and de-register your media button event receiver.






5. Use this to draw bitmaps.






6. It is a string that defines the specific type of access your app is asking for.






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






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






9. Perform background tasks without providing a user interface






10. This handles cases like flaky mobile networks - airplane mode - and restricted background data.






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






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






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






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






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






16. Allow to combine loosely coupled components to perform certain tasks






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






18. 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 _____






19. It is a subclass of PreferenceActivity.






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






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






22. If permissions are missing - the application will get this at runtime.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. Callback method: The activity is no longer visible






32. Android request its permission using its ________






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






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






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






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






37. 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.






38. 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






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






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






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






42. This is a readable source of bytes.






43. 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.






44. 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






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






46. You can reacquire the necessary resources and resume actions that were interrupted. These state transitions are all part of the _________






47. This search feature was introduced in Android 3.0 and can maintain backward compatibility with older versions of Android by using the default search dialog provided by the system.






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






49. The easiest way to create an authenticator class is to extend this and implement its abstract methods.






50. is run when running Android on the pc