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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This action is used in sending text content from one activity to another.






2. Where Android is currently primarily developed






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






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






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






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






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






8. Callback method: The activity is being created.






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






10. Necessary tools to develop Android applications






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






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






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






14. An open source group led by Google






15. It is available starting with API Level 14 and higher.






16. 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






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






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






23. Converts XML Document to XML DOM






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






25. 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






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






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






28. Evaluation of registered components






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






30. Use this to draw bitmaps.






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






32. Shows the actual amount of memory the application uses






33. Your activity should perform setup of "global" state (such as defining layout) in ____ and release all remaining resources in _____






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






35. An open source stand alone database






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






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






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






39. 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?






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






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






42. Represents the visual representation of an Android application






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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