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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. Converts XML Document to XML DOM






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






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






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






6. An open source group led by Google






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






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






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






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






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






12. This is used to check that you're actually connected to the Internet and what type of connection is in place.






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






14. Perform background tasks without providing a user interface






15. Callback method: The activity is no longer visible






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






17. An open source stand alone database






18. Callback method: The activity is being created.






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






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






21. It's generally a good idea for one of your APKs to support this texture format as it is supported by all Android-powered devices that support the OpenGL ES 2.0 spec.






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






23. You can set the layout as the UI for your activity with passing the resource ID for the layout.






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






25. Sharing of data in Android is done via________






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






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






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






29. Android request its permission using its ________






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






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






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






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






34. is run when running Android on the pc






35. Where Android is currently primarily developed






36. Callback method: The activity has become visible.






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






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






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






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






42. Necessary tools to develop Android applications






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






44. Android is __________.






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






46. 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






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






48. Conversion of XML back to an object






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






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