Question

I am trying to create an Android dictionary-like application and get slow performance on retrieving the data. Currently, each dictionary entry is stored in a text file (inside Android assets), each file is named as number, so that I can use index to locate, open and read the file’s content (simply read out a single line of String). When using ListView to render the output data and reading the file’s content inside getView() method, it takes about 3 second to retrieve 10 entries. I just wonder if there are another approaches (using SQLLite, ???) for retrieving and rendering these entries faster. Any recommendations are appreciated.

Answer 1

I would suggest you to use SQLite

Advantages

1. You can query
2. You can update definitions easily
3. Your data is more secure while using database (If you can Encrypt
   using AES or similar algorithm it, then it will become more
   secure!)
4. Fetching results is more faster
5. You can easily populate the results to a ListView

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