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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Sharing of data in Android is done via________






2. Callback method: Another activity is taking focus






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






4. These helpers are specialized classes for backing up certain kinds of data.






5. For example - a ____ might be a button that initiates an action when the user touches it.






6. Android request its permission using its ________






7. It is a free service for sending messages to Android devices.






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






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






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






11. Use this to draw text.






12. Callback method: The activity has become visible.






13. This class is the basis for handling flywheel-style fling gestures.






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






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






16. This provides methods to define line's color - whether to fill a rectangle with a color or leave it empty - and defines the color - style - font - and so forth of each shape you draw.






17. The Android framework has a large set of these classes for interacting with the user and displaying various types of data.






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






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






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






21. Represents the visual representation of an Android application






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






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






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






25. 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.






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






27. Android is __________.






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






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






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






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






32. In order for the AccountManager to work with your custom account code - you need this class that implements the interfaces that AccountManager expects.






33. It is called to invoke the search dialog on older devices.






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






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






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






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






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






39. Each activity can then start another activity in order to perform different actions. Each time a new activity starts - the previous activity is stopped - but the system preserves the activity in a ___ .






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






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






42. It is used to toggle the enabled state on any component defined in the manifest - including whichever broadcast receivers you wish to enable or disable






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






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






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






46. This is a readable source of bytes.






47. Relative to pixels and resolution screen






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






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






50. 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.