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






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






8. This action is used in sending text content from one activity to another.






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






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






11. 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






12. 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






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






14. 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.






15. ______ are views derived from ViewGroup that provide a unique layout model for its child views






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






17. 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






18. 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?






19. When a view is created from an XML layout - all of the attributes in the XML tag are read from the resource bundle and passed into the view's constructor as a what?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Conversion of XML back to an object






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






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






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






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






34. The visible lifetime of an activity happens between the call to ____ and the call to ______






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






36. 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.






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






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






39. This class provides one of the simplest ways to fire off a new task from the UI thread.






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






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






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






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






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






45. Android is __________.






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






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






48. 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 _____






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






50. This class defines abstract methods that you must override so that your database table can be created and upgraded when necessary.