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






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






3. The visible lifetime of an activity happens between the call to ____ and the call to ______






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






5. It is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form.






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






7. Converts XML Document to XML DOM






8. You can reacquire the necessary resources and resume actions that were interrupted. These state transitions are all part of the _________






9. 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.






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






11. 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






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






13. Relative to pixels and resolution screen






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






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






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






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






18. Callback method: The activity has become visible.






19. It provides a single value - called an auth token that represents both the user's identity and the application's authorization to act on the user's behalf.






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






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






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






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






24. Where Android is currently primarily developed






25. An open source stand alone database






26. The receiver is triggered whenever the device battery becomes low or exits the low condition by listening for this two.






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






28. Once a connection has been established - the app uses this method to retrieve the data as an InputStream.






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






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






31. This can be used to draw previews of what the camera sensor is picking up.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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






41. The easiest way to create an authenticator class is to extend this and implement its abstract methods.






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






43. An _______ is an application component that provides a screen 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.






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






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






46. is run when running Android on the pc






47. 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 _____






48. This class defines abstract methods that you must override so that your database table can be created and upgraded when necessary.






49. Conversion of an object to XML






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