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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Where Android is currently primarily developed






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






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






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






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






6. 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






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






8. Relative to pixels and resolution screen






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






10. Converts XML Document to XML DOM






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






12. Callback method: The activity is no longer visible.






13. 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






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






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






16. Conversion of XML back to an object






17. Android is __________.






18. Necessary tools to develop Android applications






19. Shows the actual amount of memory the application uses






20. Use this to draw bitmaps.






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






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






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






24. This class provides one of the simplest ways to fire off a new task from the UI thread.






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






26. Callback method: The activity has become visible.






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






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






29. It is a subclass of PreferenceActivity.






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






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






32. 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 _____






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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 ___ .