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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Theseclasses simplify the steps required to enhance your app with powerful platform features or effectively optimize your app performance.






2. Perform background tasks without providing a user interface






3. 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.






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






5. This is a lightweight view with no dimension and doesn't draw anything or participate in the layout.






6. 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






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






8. This broadcasts all battery and charging details in a sticky Intent that includes the charging status.






9. Conversion of an object to XML






10. Use this to draw text.






11. Conversion of XML back to an object






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. Android provides this handy method to direct volume key presses to the audio stream the user specify.






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. This class is the basis for handling flywheel-style fling gestures.






26. Callback method: Another activity is taking focus






27. Relative to pixels and resolution screen






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






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






30. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






43. Callback method: The activity is being created.






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






45. This is used for the need of finer control over your view's layout parameters.






46. It is a subclass of PreferenceActivity.






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






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






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






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