Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Threads and UI in Android Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:04:56 +0100 Organization: Dirk Bruere at Neopax Lines: 28 Message-ID: <8vvt87Fms1U1@mid.individual.net> References: <8vrrsdF6urU1@mid.individual.net> <8vs005F5tmU1@mid.individual.net> <8vt2tjFcvhU1@mid.individual.net> <8vugc0F6boU1@mid.individual.net> <8vuvpbFrt9U1@mid.individual.net> <8vv2nfFf25U1@mid.individual.net> <8vv64kF4voU1@mid.individual.net> <8vvcgtFc9mU1@mid.individual.net> Reply-To: dirk.bruere@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 9KAMN0u+xbTWH7zd18TQpQ0UgqU/KOAnTf1THsxG/hfD2nBPox Cancel-Lock: sha1:E5bDzjvo5QGSMLVC81X0bgbURtg= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:2879 On 05/04/2011 07:04, Steve Sobol wrote: > In article<8vvcgtFc9mU1@mid.individual.net>, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax > says... > > >> Well, its a scrolling list. >> You can jump through it by tens or hundreds. > > I should clarify my previous statement. It'll work if you're not using > the stock Android list control. I use K-9 Mail on my Android phone, and > it connects to my IMAP server which has dozens of folders (probably at > least 100) - and the list is manageable with 100-200 items. I would not > want to scroll through 1000+ items, it'd take forever. The min spec is a Tablet, Tegra 2, 512MB RAM, 1024x600, 10" >> 1000 is also the expected practical max we will encounter. Most systems >> will have in the low hundreds > > Well, that's different. "low hundreds" should be manageable. Anyone with more than a 1000 or so CDs, DVDs, video clips etc will have to wait for 2.0 -- Dirk http://www.neopax.com/technomage/ - My new book - Magick and Technology