Android Software Engineer

Multiple choice list can be viewed by making the CheckBox android:id value be "@android:id /text1". That is the ID used by Android for the CheckedTextView in simple_list_item_multiple_choice.

The main components of Android are:

1) Activity

2) Intent

3) Service

4) Broadcast receiver

5) Content Provider

Content provider is a data store that enables data sharing across different applications. Content providers provide a uniform interface to access the data. An example is Call logs.

Services are components that do not have a User Interface; they run in the background. An example of Service component in Facebook app would be the friend request notifications. They would continue to run, even if you switch to another activity or application.

Activity provides an interface for users to interact with the application and take an action; for instance: Login to a website. The different screens/windows of an application are the different activities. An application generally has multiple activities.

Activities are like the pages in a website. For instance, in a Facebook app, the login screen is one activity, and the news feeds from your friends after signing in would be another one.

Android allows the system to protect the applications that are not responsive for a period of time by displaying a status called as ANR (Application not responding). Methods should use the main thread for work, as it takes long time for the main thread to complete the task. The work should be divided and another thread named as child thread be used for executing more tasks, as it takes less time. Main thread should provide a handler for child threads to post back upon completion.

Think of Intent as a message to allow the application to request action from the other application components (like activity), for instance VIEW, CALL, PLAY etc.

Suppose, on your Facebook app, the running activity is the Newsfeed, and you want to view (in full frame) a pic your friend posted. The click action on the photo would be the View Photo Intent, and the Photo screen (which is a new activity) gets loaded on the click (as the message is communicated).

A Broadcast receiver comes into action only in specific situations. Suppose an Intent for which a particular broadcast receiver has been registered occurs, the broadcast receiver is triggered into action and the user gets a notification for the same. (For example: Battery low notification).

A user defined JSON, XML, bitmap, or other file, injected into the application build process, which can later be loaded from code.

Yes.

Yes.

Permission.PROCESS_OUTGOING_CALLS: Will Allow an application to monitor, modify, or abort outgoing calls. So using that permission we can monitor the Phone calls.

The APK file is compressed AndroidManifest.xml file with extension .apk. It also includes the application code (.dex files), resource files, and other files which are compressed into a single .apk file.

Multiple choice list can be viewed by making the CheckBox android:id value be "@android:id /text1″. That is the ID used by Android for the CheckedTextView in simple_list_item_multiple_choice.

It is one of a re-sizable bitmap resource which is being used as backgrounds or other images on the device. The Nine-Patch class allows drawing a bitmap in nine sections. The four corners are un-scaled; the middle of the image is scaled in both axes, the four edges are scaled into one axis.

The Google translator translates the data of one language into another language by using XMPP to transmit data. You can type the message in English and select the language which is understood by the citizens of the country in order to reach the message to the citizens.

This dialog box is used for selecting time by the user.

This dialog box is used for selecting a date by the user.