Improve Database Speed?

[Prophylaxis]

I love the database feature of the app, but it's very slow and causes a lot of crashes. Can you make it so that it isn't real time searching?

[Piotr]

I can and I probably will in 1.24.0. I reckon you're on iOS 4.3 or less?

[Mentonin]

im on 5.0.1, iPad 1, and the feature is slow sometimes too. it also crashes after around 40 cards added.

[Raven316]

I'm on 5.0.1 too and I also find it slow on both iPhone 4 and iPad 2

[Habardeen]

I think it could be left as a choice?

It's a very useful function when you input several search criteria and you have a pool of some hundreds cards.

[Habardeen]

Some shortcuts that could perhaps speed this up could be:
- limit the function to start after at least 4 letters are inserted
- limit the function to the search by names only

[Coffee Vampire]

Can't you already limit it to names only?

I think toggle real time search is a good idea if that is possible. I wouldn't want it gone all together because sometimes I find it very useful. Just a side note: I love how search works offline! A lot of apps do not have offline searches. ...But this app does!

[Habardeen]

Can't you already limit it to names only?

You are right. What I meant was to limit it to the names overall, so that when you select text or types as a criteria the function would be disabled automatically, even if the name criteria is still selected.

[Coffee Vampire]

Ah. I see what you mean!

[TheDevilMyself]

Toggle is the way to go,but for now people should limit their searches as much as possible...  I limit by format to reduce the number of possible matches for my tournament deck construction

[Piotr]

Toggle is the way to go

No, the way to go is to fix it. It should be fixed in the next version.

[Piotr]

It will be, the new version is with Apple for review. Still some quirkiness left in it, but the lag should go away.