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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An open source stand alone database






2. Android request its permission using its ________






3. It provides a single value - called an auth token that represents both the user's identity and the application's authorization to act on the user's behalf.






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






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






6. 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.






7. Where Android is currently primarily developed






8. Callback method: The activity has become visible.






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






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






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






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






13. It typically consumes more energy than 3G - which is in turn more expensive than 2G.






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






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






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






17. 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 ___ .






18. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






25. It is a subclass of PreferenceActivity.






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






27. Callback method: The activity is no longer visible.






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






29. 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.






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






31. Evaluation of registered components






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






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






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






35. This is a readable source of bytes.






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






37. If permissions are missing - the application will get this at runtime.






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






39. Sharing of data in Android is done via________






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






41. is run when running Android on the pc






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






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






44. Converts XML Document to XML DOM






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






46. 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?






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






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






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






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