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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. You can reacquire the necessary resources and resume actions that were interrupted. These state transitions are all part of the _________






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






3. Shows the actual amount of memory the application uses






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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






10. Callback method: Another activity is taking focus






11. 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 _____






12. is run when running Android on the pc






13. Converts XML Document to XML DOM






14. This is a readable source of bytes.






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Android request its permission using its ________






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






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






24. This class computes scroll positions for you - but it does not automatically apply those positions to your view.






25. Necessary tools to develop Android applications






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






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






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






29. Conversion of XML back to an object






30. 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?






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






32. 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.






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






34. 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 ___ .






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






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






37. Sharing of data in Android is done via________






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






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






40. 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






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






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






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






44. Creating drawing objects within this method significantly reduces performance and can make your UI appear sluggish.






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






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






47. Evaluation of registered components






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






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






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