Technology Questions

Android is a stack of software for mobile devices which has Operating System, middleware and some key applications. The application executes within its own process and its own instance of Dalvik Virtual Machine. Many Virtual Machines run efficiently by a DVM device. DVM executes Java language’s byte code which later transforms into .dex format files.

Features of Android :

- Components can be reused and replaced by the application framework.
- Optimized DVM for mobile devices
- SQLite enables to store the data in a structured manner.
- Supports GSM telephone and Bluetooth, WiFi, 3G and EDGE technologies
- The development is a combination of a device emulator, debugging tools, memory profiling and plug-in for Eclipse IDE.

They communicate via service MVS request calls.

An application behaves differently when running in foreground than in background because of the limitation of resources on iOS devices.

An SQL statement is a string of characters that conforms to the syntax and format specified in the international standard.

A query is a statement that returns a record-set.

A child selector is used when you want to match an element that is the child of another specific element.
The parent and child selectors are separated by spaces.
The following selector locates an unordered list element within a paragraph element and makes a text within that element bold.

p > ul {font-weight: bold;}

Any code written in any .NET complaint languages when compiled, converts into MSIL (Microsoft Intermediate Language) code in form of an assembly through CLS, CTS. IL is the language that CLR can understand. On execution, this IL is converted into binary code by CLR’s just in time compiler (JIT) and these assemblies or DLL are loaded into the memory.

Visual basic can be used for server side scripting. A component designed with Visual basic will not have any user interface instead provides the functionality of Active X to other programs via COM. This form of technique allows server side functionality and add in module.

String Args (String []) is an array of parameters of type String.

In Java, 'args' contains the supplied command-line arguments as an array of String objects. In other words, if you run your program as 'java MyProgram Hello World' then 'args' will contain ["Hello", "World"]. When a java class is executed from the console, the main method is what is called.