Detailed List Sorting and assigning new accessors

[volxage]

What is the problem or limitation you are having?

I have a detailed list with many attributes. In order to sort by those attributes I need to sort the list of rows itself, I then need to then notify("clear") then notify("insert", row) for each row in the list. This is performant enough on Linux but is extremely slow on Android; I presume it's making a new list each time, or something like that. This issue alone is making me consider writing my project for each platform individually, so I feel as a whole this is a pretty important issue.

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like to see a performant solution to both of these issues. A sort function would be great but I would be more interested in an added notify() option of the likes of "all_changed", where the platform rerenders the entire list. I understand you could just re-declare a new detailed list but if I remember correctly, that's even slower than re-rendering each row manually.

Describe alternatives you've considered

It's possible that this specific is too specific and too complex to implement.

Additional context

[freakboy3742]

An interesting idea; the question is how and when such an event would be triggered. However, conceptually, I can definitely see the value in a "refresh" style event that redraws all the rows in one pass.

As an immediate workaround, you'll likely find that if you explicitly set the data source to itself, it will trigger this style of update. A change of source triggers a clear/re-create; although the usual reason for invoking this is "I want a different list of data", "the same data in a different order in the same DataSource" would be functionally indistinguishable.