Native List ANE for large scrolling lists
Hi everyone!
We are currently investigating the possibility of building a new ANE to handle large scrolling lists using native components.
Large lists in AIR can be slow and problematic. the Feathers library has a very good implementation which works well, however it's not quite as fast as native lists and not everybody uses Starling & Feathers for their apps.
As such we'd like to develop an ANE to let developers utilise native UI (such as the UITableView on iOS) to achieve the best performance for long lists of data.
What we need from you is votes for this idea, to make sure it's worthwhile, and also feedback on how developers would like the ANE to function.
We want to provide as much customisation for the UI as possible, while keeping it simple to use.
If you're interested in this ANE - please vote here, and post a comment to let us know what features you would like to see.
Thanks!
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crooksy88 commented
As well as lots of options to customise the look and feel of the lists I think one of the biggest challenges to overcome is how you could integrate native list 'into' your UI.
By that I mean - as I understand it, other native elements sit above your AIR app, such as dialog and Media Player. If I were to include an ANE native scrolling list into my UI I would want it to appear with the rest of the UI, possibly with a slide in. It would need to 'link' to some element in your UI so wherever the element was positioned, the native list would match that position.