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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. To create an activity - you must create a subclass of






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. This class defines methods for drawing text - lines - bitmaps - and many other graphics primitives.






11. A service in which programmers can offer their Android application to Android users.






12. 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.






13. Evaluation of registered components






14. Callback method: Another activity is taking focus






15. It doesn't currently support the <merge/> tag in the layouts to be inflated.






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






17. Necessary tools to develop Android applications






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






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






20. 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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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.






29. An open source stand alone database






30. Converts XML Document to XML DOM






31. Sharing of data in Android is done via________






32. On a rooted device - the credentials would be readable by anyone with this access to the device.






33. The easiest way to create an authenticator class is to extend this and implement its abstract methods.






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






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






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






37. 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.






38. These helpers are specialized classes for backing up certain kinds of data.






39. Android is __________.






40. This is a readable source of bytes.






41. When a new activity starts - it is pushed onto the ____ and takes user focus.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. An open source group led by Google






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