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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
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1. Where Android is currently primarily developed






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






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






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






5. Android request its permission using its ________






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






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






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






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






10. Necessary tools to develop Android applications






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






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






13. 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






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






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






16. 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.






17. An open source group led by Google






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






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






20. Shows the actual amount of memory the application uses






21. Converts XML Document to XML DOM






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






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






24. 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?






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






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






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






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






29. 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 ___ .






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






31. Conversion of an object to XML






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






33. In most cases this will offer greater bandwidth at a significantly lower battery cost.






34. In order for the AccountManager to work with your custom account code - you need this class that implements the interfaces that AccountManager expects.






35. This is used to fetch the account names that the user has stored on their device.






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






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






38. Callback method: The activity is being created.






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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






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






46. This action is used in sending text content from one activity to another.






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






48. 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.






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






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