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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Use this to draw text.






2. It is a free service for sending messages to Android devices.






3. 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.






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






5. Callback method: The activity has become visible.






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






7. Shows the actual amount of memory the application uses






8. Callback method: The activity is no longer visible






9. It is available starting with API Level 14 and higher.






10. When a view is created from an XML layout - all of the attributes in the XML tag are read from the resource bundle and passed into the view's constructor as a what?






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






12. Answers queries about the state of network connectivity. It also notifies applications when network connectivity changes.






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






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. It is a subclass of PreferenceActivity.






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






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






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






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






20. ______ are views derived from ViewGroup that provide a unique layout model for its child views






21. Relative to pixels and resolution screen






22. 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.






23. You can set the layout as the UI for your activity with passing the resource ID for the layout.






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






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






26. 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 ___ .






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






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






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






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






31. This is the main class through which your application can access location services on Android.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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. An open source group led by Google