Following on from my recent post on Dynamic Lists for Listpickers, I ventured a bit further.

Well I now have a rough version (and it is ugly!) that creates a dynamic list for the first list in a nested listpicker. This assumes a list of names or words in the master list, and that these are sorted alphabetically. The issue with creating such a thing is that, say for names, there are 26 letters that names could start with, but that the distribution of names is very uneven. In my sample list 3 letters took over 30% of the entire list. My aim was to present nested lists that could all be viewed without scrolling (between 10 and 12 items), but because of the above this is just not possible all the time. I only have the blocks here that create the first list for the listpicker, the A-D,E-H,etc. as the blocks probably need some optimisation before writing the whole thing out. But here goes: Continue reading →