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






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






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






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






5. is run when running Android on the pc






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






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






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






9. 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






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






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






12. Conversion of an object to XML






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






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






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






20. When a new activity starts - it is pushed onto the ____ and takes user focus.






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






22. 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.






23. Necessary tools to develop Android applications






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. Theseclasses simplify the steps required to enhance your app with powerful platform features or effectively optimize your app performance.






31. 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 ___ .






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






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






34. It includes a Detailed Network Usage tab that makes it possible to track when your application is making network requests.






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






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






37. Where Android is currently primarily developed






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






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






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






41. 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






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






43. Conversion of XML back to an object






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






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






46. Use this to draw bitmaps.






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






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






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






50. Relative to pixels and resolution screen