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






2. The ____ lifetime of an activity happens between the call to onStart() and the call to onStop().






3. 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 ___ .






4. Where Android is currently primarily developed






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






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






7. An open source stand alone database






8. Most network-connected Android apps use this to send and receive data.






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






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






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






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






13. It is used to load images in a background thread - then apply them to the UI once finished.






14. Perform background tasks without providing a user interface






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






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






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






18. Sharing of data in Android is done via________






19. Used when a connection is active - allowing the device to transfer data at its highest possible rate.






20. If you want your APK to be visible on TVs which are non-touchscreen devices you should add this to your manifest.






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






22. 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






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






24. is run when running Android on the pc






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. It is a subclass of PreferenceActivity.






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






41. A mode where navigation is set up with a spinner widget.






42. Callback method: Another activity is taking focus






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






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






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






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






47. This is a readable source of bytes.






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






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






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