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Really impossible to say without more information. It would depend on the nature of the list items. Can they be categorized in some way?

That really seems like a horribly long list for anybody to go through.

In any case, that is way too many list items, at least for a listview on mobile. I try to keep it below 100, and if there are images in the list, 50.

The difference between listview and hand-coded is huge, though, and you might then get away with it. Older mobiles will have memory issues still, though, particularly if there are images.

You can try to manage the list size dynamically. Search for "lazyloader" here, there is a plugin from a participant here.

Thanks. Here is more information:

1. I know its too long to display in a sequence but I have 700 names with thumbnail sized images. I want the user to some how browse this list and select what he or she wants to create a "personal" list.

2. This personal list is displayed at the top now after constructing by selecting from this large pool.

3. Some users know the first few letters in the name and are flexible to type in a search/filter type of text box, where as other users need to be able to see the list and click to select the desired items.

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Where does this list come from? A server? Is this a native app (PhoneGap, etc.)? A webapp with local data? A lot depends on where the list comes from and how quickly it's content can be accessed.

700 rows with images is a huge problem. You're not going to get acceptable performance with a listview loaded-up with all 700 items.

You can try this:

https://github.com/dcarrith/jquery.mobile.lazyloader

You're probably going to want to use pre-compiled dust templates to get the best performance.  I have tested the lazyloading of tracks in playlists that are about 700 items in length (with album art) and the performance is great.  I've never tried putting form elements in the list items though (e.g. checkboxes).  So, I'll be interested to hear how that goes for you.

The checkboxes obviously present a problem. If you lazyload, then you can't so easily submit a form with all of the selected checkboxes, since most of the items won't even exist in the DOM when you do the submit.

I am still showing it as a long filtered list for now.

@dcarrith what is the source of your songs? I know you use GetID for extracting the meta data but just curious where you get the songs from, and are they hosted on your server?