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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
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1. ______ are views derived from ViewGroup that provide a unique layout model for its child views






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






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






4. This includes tools to help you identify problems in your layout performance.






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






6. 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.






7. An open source group led by Google






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






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






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






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






12. 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?






13. 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 ___ .






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Callback method: The activity is no longer visible






21. 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.






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






23. Conversion of an object to XML






24. 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






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






26. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. is run when running Android on the pc






37. 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 _____






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. Where Android is currently primarily developed






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






47. It is a subclass of PreferenceActivity.






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






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






50. Represents the visual representation of an Android application