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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. This includes tools to help you identify problems in your layout performance.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. is run when running Android on the pc






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






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






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






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






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






19. In order to get a list of accounts on the device - your app needs this permission.






20. Evaluation of registered components






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






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






23. This object contains an account name - which for Google accounts is an email address.






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






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






26. This can be used to draw previews of what the camera sensor is picking up.






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






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






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






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






31. Conversion of an object to XML






32. 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






33. To respond to media button clicks - you need to register this in your manifest that listens for this action broadcast.






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






35. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






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






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






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






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






50. An open source group led by Google