Or, you could first categorize the items and present them hierarchically with a ListView like this
http://i28.tinypic.com/vhb15h.jpg so that users can expand and collapse the hierarchy to select entries intuitively. Good lucks! Kyara On Mar 31, 9:45 am, dr123 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thank you anthony, that's what i did there was no other way... > i have the user type in some letters and then try a LIKE %string% > search... > > I hope this also help others cause the country/city thing is something > common. > > On 31 Μαρ, 18:22, acopernicus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Here's an excellent ListView example with code for paging through > > large #'s of items. It's very similar to the music list in iTunes on > > the iPhone. > > >http://devtcg.blogspot.com/2008/03/custom-android-list-view-widget-to... > > > Given that you have 18,000 entries though, I recommend a search field > > with auto-population of options based on queries back to the server. > > I.e. have user type a letter and then display only cities beginning > > with that letter. > > > Best of luck, > > Anthony --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
