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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. It is called to invoke the search dialog on older devices.






2. In order to get a list of accounts on the device - your app needs this permission.






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






4. Android request its permission using its ________






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






6. Direct component call in Android






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






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






9. 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






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






11. 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.






12. Callback method: The activity is being created.






13. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. Represents the visual representation of an Android application






22. This is a lightweight view with no dimension and doesn't draw anything or participate in the layout.






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






24. 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 ___ .






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






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






27. Use this to draw text.






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






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






30. Relative to pixels and resolution screen






31. Conversion of XML back to an object






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






33. Android is __________.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. 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






48. It is a subclass of PreferenceActivity.






49. This provides methods to define line's color - whether to fill a rectangle with a color or leave it empty - and defines the color - style - font - and so forth of each shape you draw.






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