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Android Development Insights

The document contains answers to several questions about Android development topics. It discusses what Android is, the difference between regular and nine-patch bitmaps, supported AIDL data types, visible activities, the role of Dalvik, and what intents are.

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Android Development Insights

The document contains answers to several questions about Android development topics. It discusses what Android is, the difference between regular and nine-patch bitmaps, supported AIDL data types, visible activities, the role of Dalvik, and what intents are.

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Question: Do all mobile phones support the latest Android operating system?

Answer: Some Android-powered phone allows you to upgrade to the higher Android
operating system version. However, not all upgrades would allow you to get the latest
version. It depends largely on the capability and specs of the phone, whether it can support
the newer features available under the latest Android version.

Question: What is the difference between a regular bitmap and a nine-patch image?

Answer: In general, a Nine-patch image allows resizing that can be used as background or
other image size requirements for the target device. The Nine-patch refers to the way you
can resize the image: 4 corners that are unscaled, 4 edges that are scaled in 1 axis, and the
middle one that can be scaled into both axes.

Question: What is Android?

Answer: It is an open-sourced operating system that is used primarily on mobile devices,


such as cell phones and tablets. It is a Linux kernel-based system that’s been equipped with
rich components that allows developers to create and run apps that can perform both basic
and advanced functions.

Question: What is a visible activity?

Answer: A visible activity is one that sits behind a foreground dialog. It is actually visible to
the user, but not necessarily being in the foreground itself.

Question: What data types are supported by AIDL?

Answer: AIDL has support for the following data types: -string, -charSequence, -List, -Map, -
all native Java data types like int, long, char and Boolean

Question: How are escape characters used as attribute?

Answer: Escape characters are preceded by double backslashes. For example, a newline
character is created using ‘\\n’
Question: What role does Dalvik play in Android development?

Answer: Dalvik serves as a virtual machine, and it is where every Android application runs.
Through Dalvik, a device is able to execute multiple virtual machines efficiently through
better memory management.

Question: What are Intents?

Answer: Intents displays notification messages to the user from within the Android enabled
device. It can be used to alert the user of a particular state that occurred. Users can be made
to respond to intents.

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