Hi, i'm again the guy with the 8mb question. actually it's not 8mb it's a little larger but here is my problem to which i can't get any solution.
I need to have the user choose his country and then populate "something" with all the cities of the country. In order to be exact, i have a database with 18000 cities for greece only for example. Going through that kind of text or html file is not feasible as it would have to take extreme space and memory. I tried two solutions: first one is having the database on my server and collecting the data through xmlrpc. this fails cause the data is bigger than the kxmlrpclitent can hold (or some other limitation but in the debugger it only gets a couple of hundred cities or so). the second one is better (i think): i open up a php page on my server with webkit that has all the cities and i can easily see them with a normal browser. *BUT*: the android browser (at least the one that opens with a new intent and a uri) translates the html combobox into something like a spinner. this is extremely slowly generated (i wait for minutes before it opens up and have to press the button 2-3 times) and second and most important: i can't find a way to press the "r" key for example and the box transfers me to the first city which starts with "r". Noone can scroll down a list with 18000 cities. I know i should get something with less cities but first of all that's the only database that has all the cities (i wouldn't want only the 10 bigger cities cause in the united states for example that would also be some thousands). My app which is going for the challenge (i'm in a hurryyyyyyyy) is a social app *depends* on good geographical selection (not gps , i know). any help *very* appreciated --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announcing the new M5 SDK! http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/02/android-sdk-m5-rc14-now-available.html For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
