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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A service in which programmers can offer their Android application to Android users.






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






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






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






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






6. 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 ___ .






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






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






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






10. 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






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






12. 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 _____






13. Callback method: The activity is being created.






14. 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






15. Callback method: Another activity is taking focus






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






17. This is an interface which is used to pass image data from the camera hardware to the application.






18. Converts XML Document to XML DOM






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






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






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






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






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






24. Perform background tasks without providing a user interface






25. This class exposes a number of methods for applications to receive location updates.






26. Where Android is currently primarily developed






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






28. is run when running Android on the pc






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






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






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






32. It is available starting with API Level 14 and higher.






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






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






35. Your activity should perform setup of "global" state (such as defining layout) in ____ and release all remaining resources in _____






36. Use this to draw bitmaps.






37. Sharing of data in Android is done via________






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






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






40. 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.






41. Callback method: The activity has become visible.






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






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






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






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






46. It is a subclass of PreferenceActivity.






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






48. 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?






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






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