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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This broadcasts all battery and charging details in a sticky Intent that includes the charging status.






2. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






8. This is the most common input event in the Android system.






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






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






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






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






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






14. Perform background tasks without providing a user interface






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






16. Callback method: The activity has become visible.






17. You can reacquire the necessary resources and resume actions that were interrupted. These state transitions are all part of the _________






18. 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.






19. 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






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






21. Relative to pixels and resolution screen






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






23. is run when running Android on the pc






24. Shows the actual amount of memory the application uses






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






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






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






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






29. 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 ___ .






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






31. Sharing of data in Android is done via________






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Use this to draw bitmaps.






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






41. It is a lightweight mechanism used to transmit data from a server to a particular app instance.






42. Android request its permission using its ________






43. Direct component call in Android






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






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






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






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






48. Necessary tools to develop Android applications






49. 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.






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