Technology Questions

Retain -Specifies that retain should be invoked on the object upon assignment. takes ownership of an object

Assign - Specifies that the setter uses simple assignment. Uses on attribute of scalar type like float,int.

Overloading allows multiple functions to exist with same name but different parameters. Again if you take bike as an example, it has a function “Start” with two forms i.e. ’Auto Start’ and ’kick start’.

The foreground activity, being the most important among the other states, is only killed or terminated as a last resort, especially if it is already consuming too much memory. When a memory paging state has been reach by a foreground activity, then it is killed so that the user interface can retain its responsiveness to the user.

JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development.

The app delegate object is created by UIApplicationMain function at app launch time. The app delegate object's main job is to handle state transitions within the app.

A protected method may only be accessed by classes or interfaces of the same package or by subclasses of the class in which it is declared.

An Android Intent is an abstract description of an operation to be performed. It can be used with startActivity to launch an Activity, broadcastIntent to send it to any interested BroadcastReceiver components, and startService(Intent) or bindService(Intent, ServiceConnection, int) to communicate with a background Service.The intent itself, an Intent object, is a passive data structure holding an abstract description of an operation to be performed.
Android provides many ways of storing data of an application. One of this way is called Shared Preferences. Shared Preferences allow you to save and retrieve data in the form of key,value pair.

In order to use shared preferences, you have to call a method getSharedPreferences() that returns a SharedPreference instance pointing to the file that contains the values of preferences.

Dimensional modeling is often used in Data warehousing. In simpler words it is a rational or consistent design technique used to build a data warehouse. DM uses facts and dimensions of a warehouse for its design. A snow and star flake schema represent data modeling.