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






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






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






4. Perform background tasks without providing a user interface






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






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






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






8. Necessary tools to develop Android applications






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






10. Theseare a key part of Android applications that directly affect the user experience.






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






12. Android is __________.






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






14. Android request its permission using its ________






15. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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






22. Where Android is currently primarily developed






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






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






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






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






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






28. It inform the system what intents an application component is willing to accept.






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






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






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






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






33. Conversion of XML back to an object






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. An open source group led by Google






48. This class computes scroll positions for you - but it does not automatically apply those positions to your view.






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






50. 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 _____