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Unit – 04:
 Menus-Option,
 Context,
 Popup,
 Images-Image View,
 Image Switcher.
 Alert Dialog,
 Alarm manager.
 SMS,
 E-mail,
 Media Player,
 Handling Telephony Manager.

Questions to be discussed:
1. What is menus option? Explain in brief.
2. Explain in details about image view and image switcher.
3. What is E-mail? Explain in details with examples.
4. Discuss about alarm manager.
5. Write short notes on:
a. Pop-up
b. Alert dialog
c. Context
d. SMS
e. Media player

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Menus Option:
 Menus are a common user interface component in applications.
 It should use to present user actions and other options in your activities.
 The options menu is the primary collection of menu items for an activity.
 When and how this item should appear as an action is decided by the Show Action attribute.
 They can be used for open, share, settings, searching, deleting items, etc.

Context:
 Context represents any information.
 It can be used to characterize the situation of an entity.
 An entity is a person, place or object that is considered as interaction between user and an application.
 Context can take many forms, including background information or details about the circumstances, or
timeframe in which a work takes place.
 Example: A devices that change their screens and backlighting according to the amount of light in the
room where they are being used.

Pop-up:
 A pop-up is a GUI that suddenly appears in the foreground of the visual interface.
 Pop-ups are web browser windows or dialogue boxes that open without any user action.
 There are two main categories of pop-up:
1. Computer dialogue boxes
2. Advises window

Computer dialogue boxes:

 It appear as a pop-up window on your desktop or mobile device.
 It is used to communicate relevant information from a computer or application to you.
 Sometimes this pop-up appears when it's necessary for you to enter a password.
 Example: when you make a purchase on your smartphone and need to enter your password to authorize
the purchase.

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Alert window:
 This pop-up often appears on the window that alert you that a step you're trying to perform isn't
allowed and requires a different keystroke or command.
 These types of pop-ups on computers and device facilitate a method of alerting you that some action is
necessary.

Image View:
 Image view is used to display any kind of image file in the application.
 It is also used to control the size and movement of an image.
 Image View comes with different configuration options to support different scale types.
 Scale type options are used for scaling the bounds of an image to the bounds of the image view.
 Some of them scale types configuration properties are center, center_crop, fit_xy, fitStart etc.

Image Switcher:
 In certain cases, you may not want an image to appear abruptly on screen.
 You would prefer that its transition from one image to another with some kind of animation.
 Android supports this in the form of Image Switcher.
 An image switcher allows you to add some transitions to the images through the way they appear on
the screen.

Alert Dialog:
 A dialog is a small window that prompts the user to make a decision or enter additional information.
 Alert Dialog can be used to display the dialog message with OK and Cancel buttons.
 It displays the message to warn you and then according to your response, the next step is processed.
 It can be used to interrupt and ask the user about his/her choice to continue or discontinue.
 Android Alert Dialog is built with the use of three fields: Title, Message area, and Action Button.

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What is an alarm manager?

 Alarm Manager allows you to access system alarm.
 By the help of Alarm Manager, you can schedule your application to run at a specific time in the future.
 It works whether your phone is running or not.
 Alarm Manager is a bridge between application and Android system alarm service.
 Example, you could use an alarm to initiate a long-running operation, such as starting a service once a
day to download a weather forecast.

What is SMS?
 SMS stands for Short Message Service.
 SMS is a form of text message that's sent from one device to another.
 It is a service for sending short messages of up to 160 characters to mobile devices, including cellular
phones and smart phones.
 That very first text, sent on the 3rd December 1992, simply said, “Merry Christmas.”
 Engineer Neil Papworth sent the world's first SMS to the Vodafone director Richard Jarvis.

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What is an E-mail?
 E-mail stands for Electronic Mail.
 It is a method to sends messages from one computer to another computer through the internet.
 E-mail is a communication system that sends and receives message by using specific e-mail address.
 E-mail address consists of two parts: first part @ second part.
 In first part user can give any name according to choice.
 Second part is the domain name that indicate mail server on which you are going to create the e-mail id.
 Email services started in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson.
Example:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Media player:
 Media player is an application software.
 It is used for playing multimedia files like audio and video.
 For example, many media players today are capable of playing audio files such as playing an MP3 song
file and video files such as a short video clip or movie.
 Examples of media players: iTunes, Media Monkey, VLC, Windows Media Player etc.

Telephony Manager:
 Telephony manager provides us the functionalities of the mobile.
 It gives us information about functionalities like calls, SMS, MMS, IMEI number, and so on.
 It also provides information about the telephony services such as subscriber id, sim serial number, phone
network type etc.
 Applications can use the methods in this class to determine telephony services and states, as well as to
access some types of subscriber information.
 Applications can also register a listener to receive notification of telephony state changes.

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