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    <p>I have a dictionary database which contains a total of 99,833 words but separated per letter. I am testing dictionaryA.txt which contains 3922 words.</p> <p>Case 1:</p> <p>When I enter a word I wanna look up, lets say "abacus", Using a buffered reader, My app says "Thesis is not responding. Wait - Quit". If I choose wait, it will return the word abacus and its definition.</p> <p>CODE:</p> <pre><code>InputStream inputStream = getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.definitiona); try { BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream)); String s = in.readLine(); String delimiter = " - "; String del[]; while(s != null) { s = in.readLine().replaceAll("\\s+", " "); del = s.split(delimiter); if (enhancedStem.equals(del[0])) { in.close(); databaseOutput.setText(s); break; } } in.close(); } catch (FileNotFoundException e) { databaseOutput.setText("" + e); } catch (IOException e1) { databaseOutput.setText("" + e1); } </code></pre> <p>Case 2:</p> <p>When I enter a word I wanna look up, lets say "abacus", using the strings.xml (i transferred the whole 3922 words in a string-array), it says the same. I have to click wait before it responds.</p> <p>CODE:</p> <pre><code>String[] wordA = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.DictionaryA); String delimiter = " - "; String[] del; for (int wordActr = 0; wordActr &lt;= wordA.length - 1; wordActr++) { String wordString = wordA[wordActr].toString(); del = wordString.split(delimiter); if (enhancedStem.equals(del[0])) { databaseOutput.setText(wordA[wordActr]); break; } else databaseOutput.setText("Word not found!"); } </code></pre> <p>Can you tell me which is better? Should I keep using my textfile? Or transfer them to the strings.xml since they both respond slowly anyway? And do you have any idea how I can eliminate the "Not responding" problem? Thanks in advance!</p>
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    2. CODoesn't madder, the problem is, that you're freezing the UI by doing heavy lifting on the UI Thread.
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