Deck 1: Android: Licensing, Ownership, and Development

Question 1

Android is licensed under which open source licensing license?

A)gnu's gpl
B)apache/mit
C)oss
D)sourceforge

Answer 1

apache/mit

Question 2

Although most people's first thought when they think of Android is Google, Android is not actually owned by Google. Who owns the Android platform?

A)oracle technology
B)dalvik
C)open handset alliance
D)the above statement is and android is owned by google

Answer 2

open handset alliance

Question 3

As an Android programmer, what version of Android should you use as your minimum development target?

A)versions 1.6 or 2.0
B)versions 1.0 or 1.1
C)versions 1.2 or 1.3
D)versions 2.3 or 3.0

Answer 3

versions 1.6 or 2.0

Question 4

What was Google's main business motivation for supporting Android?

A)to level the playing field for mobile devices
B)to directly compete with the iphone
C)to corner the mobile device application market for licensing purposes
D)to allow them to advertise more

Question 5

What was the first phone released that ran the Android OS?

A)google gphone
B)t-mobile g1
C)motorola droid
D)htc hero

Question 6

From a phone manufacturer's point of view, what makes Android so great?

A)aside from some specific drivers, it provides everything to make a phone work
B)it makes the hardware work better
C)it allows them to compete with apple's iphone
D)it allows users to create apps, generating revenue for the companies

Question 7

What is a funny fact about the start of Android?

A)it was orginaly going to be called ufo
B)the first version of android was released without an actual phone on the market
C)androids main purpose was to unlock your car door when you left the keys inside of it.
D)was going to be a closed source application to make more money for its company.

Question 8

What year was the Open Handset Alliance announced?

A)2005
B)2006
C)2007
D)2008

Question 9

A device with Android installed is needed to develop apps for Android.

Question 10

Android tries hard to ______________ low-level components, such as the software stack, with interfaces so that vendor-specific code can be managed easily.

A)confound
B)absract
C)modularize
D)compound

Question 11

Google licensed some proprietary apps.

Question 12

When did Google purchase Android?

A)2007
B)2005
C)2008
D)2010

Question 13

Android releases since 1.5 have been given nicknames derived how?

A)adjective and strange animal
B)food
C)something that starts w/ 'a' -> something that starts w/ 'b'…
D)american states

Question 14

Which one is not a nickname of a version of Andriod?

A)cupcake
B)gingerbread
C)honeycomb
D)muffin

Question 15

Android doesn't make any assumptions about a device's screen size, resolution, or chipset.:

Question 16

Why are the so few users left with versions 1.0 and 1.1?

A)the first phones were released with version 1.5
B)1.0 and 1.1 had security holes that forced carriers to recall phones using them
C)1.0 and 1.1 are just number designations for the version apple's iphone is running
D)everyone with 1.0 and 1.1 were upgraded to 1.5 over the air automatically

Question 17

Which Android version had the greatest share of the market as of January 2011?

A)1.1
B)1.5
C)2.3
D)3.4

Question 18

Which piece of code used in Android is not open source?

A)keypad driver
B)Wi-Fi driver
C)audio driver
D)power management

Question 19

Android is built upon the Java Micro Edition (J2ME) version of Java.

Question 20

Which among these are NOT a part of Android's native libraries?

A)webkit
B)dalvik
C)opengl
D)sqlite

Question 21

Android is based on Linux for the following reason.

A)security
B)portability
C)networking
D)all of these

Question 22

What operating system is used as the base of the Android stack?

A)linux
B)windows
C)java
D)xml

Question 23

What year was development on the Dalvik virtual machine started?

A)2003
B)2005
C)2007
D)2006

Question 24

What is a key difference with the distribution of apps for Android based devices than other mobile device platform applications?

A)applications are distributed by apple app store only
B)applications are distributed by multiple vendors with different policies on applications.
C)applications are distributed by multiple vendors with the exact same policies on applications.
D)applications are distributed by the android market only.

Question 25

When developing for the Android OS, Java byte code is compiled into what?

A)java source code
B)dalvik application code
C)dalvik byte code
D)c source code