Are there any known patterns for performance of 3rd party database apps on the iphone? I ask because I'm having an ongoing issue with a particular grocery shopping app, into which I've imported my very long shopping list from Handyshopper on the Palm platform. The performance is just woeful, with simple operations regularly freezing and occasionally crashing the app. My grocery list varies between 700 and maybe 1100 items. You can have lists of that size in iPhone's own Contacts, for example, and it hums along nicely. So presumably iphones are capable of running large databases efficiently. But from a recent chat with the developer of my grocery app, it seems that Apple place a range of limitations on 3rd party apps - including notably memory allocation.
So I'm wondering whether the constraints on 3rd party developers mean that large databases (non-Apple) simply aren't going to run efficiently on the iphone. Can anyone comment?
Thanks.
So I'm wondering whether the constraints on 3rd party developers mean that large databases (non-Apple) simply aren't going to run efficiently on the iphone. Can anyone comment?
Thanks.