University of Gujrat, Lahore Campus

Department of Computer Science & IT

Final Term Examination Spring 2021

Course Title: Mobile Application Development Marks: 50

Course Code: CS – 407 Time: 2.5 Hr
Program: BSCS Semester: Repeaters
Student Name: Student Roll No.

1. Name the two ways in which you can send SMS messages in your Android application. (2)
2. How do you notify an activity from a BroadcastReceiver? (2)
3. Name the permissions you need to declare in your AndroidManifest.xml file for sending
and receiving SMS messages. (2)
4. Write a code to display Google Map in an android phone. (2)
5. How can you control zoom in Google Map? Write code. (2)
6. Is it possible to change view of Google Map from normal view to Satellite view? How? (2)
7. Explain the working of this function: onProviderDisabled(String provider) . (2)
8. If you have embedded the Google Maps API into your Android application but it does not
show the map when the application is loaded, what could be the likely reasons? (2)
9. What is the difference between geocoding and reverse geocoding? (2)
10. What method is used for monitoring a location? (1)
11. Name the two location providers that you can use to obtain your location data (2).
12. Below given code displays the MapView. Explain every line of code. (2)

13. What is the difference between Web services using HTTP and JSON services? (2)
14. Name the permissions you need to declare in your AndroidManifest.xml file for an HTTP
connection. (2)
15. Name the classes used for dealing with JSON messages. (2)
16. Why is it important to put long-running code in a service on a separate thread? (2)

Mobile Application Development (CS – 407) – Final Term – Spring 2021

17. What is the purpose of the IntentService class? (1)
18. How can a service notify an activity of an event happening? (1)
19. For threading, what is the recommended method to ensure that your code runs without
tying up the UI of your application? (1)
20. How do you generate a self-signed certificate for signing your Android application? (2)
21. How do you configure your Android device to accept applications from non-Market
sources? (2)
22. What are benefits and limitations of use socket programming in an android application?
(2)
23. What this function socketpair() does? (1)
24. How ACTION_CALL is different from ACTION_DIAL while handling a phone call on
android phone? (1)
25. Explain the working of sendDataMessage() function. (2)
26. We can send an email through android application with some extra features/data. Explain
how these two variables used for this purpose: EXTRA_BCC, EXTRA_CC. (2)
27. Which function in android is used to send an email? (2)
28. After sending SMS message using the SmsManager class, how do you know that the
message has been sent correctly? Is there any method in android to know this? (2)

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Mobile Application Development (CS – 407) – Final Term – Spring 2021