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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This class is the basis for handling flywheel-style fling gestures.






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






3. Use this to draw text.






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






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






6. Direct component call in Android






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






8. Evaluation of registered components






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






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






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






12. 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






13. 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.






14. 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 _____






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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?






27. Callback method: The activity has become visible.






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






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






30. This callback method of the audio focus change listener you registered when requesting audio focus receives a parameter that describes the focus change event.






31. The ____ lifetime of an activity happens between the call to onCreate() and the call to onDestroy().






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






33. Callback method: The activity is being created.






34. is run when running Android on the pc






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






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






37. Callback method: Another activity is taking focus






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






39. Relative to pixels and resolution screen






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






41. It is a subclass of PreferenceActivity.






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






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






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






45. It is used as a reverse-geocoding where translating latitude longitude coordinates to a human-readable address happens.






46. 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.






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






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






49. An open source stand alone database






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