Loading 200 items and storing them is not a good approach with phonegap/cordova. We are talking about already slow HTML5 + JS wrapper, this will make it even more slow.
Better approach would be to use a ajax to load more data, ajax call will be triggered when you reach a listview end or when a "load new content" button is clicked.
Here you will find an approach with "load new content" button:
http://jsfiddle.net/knuTW/2/
Here you will find an approach with auto loading listview when listview end is reached:
http://jsfiddle.net/dhavaln/nVLZA/
This example requires this jQuery plugin: http://imakewebthings.com/jquery-waypoints/
And here's my example with auto loading listview and $.ajax in commbination:
http://jsfiddle.net/Gajotres/v4NxB/
Code example, and I repeat this is only a dummy example (still working dummy example):
// load test data initially
for (i=0; i < 10; i++) {
$("#list").append($("<li><a href=\"index.html\"><h3>" + i + "</h3><p>z</p></a></li>"));
}
$("#list").listview('refresh');
// load new data when reached at bottom
$('#footer').waypoint(function(a, b) {
// Load some dynamic data with $.ajax
$.ajax({url: "http://api.themoviedb.org/2.1/Movie.search/en/json/23afca60ebf72f8d88cdcae2c4f31866/The Goonies",
dataType: "jsonp",
jsonpCallback: 'successCallback',
async: true,
beforeSend: function() {
$.mobile.showPageLoadingMsg(true);
},
complete: function() {
$.mobile.hidePageLoadingMsg();
},
success: function (result) {
ajax.parseJSONP(result);
},
error: function (request,error) {
//alert('Network error has occurred please try again!');
}
});
$('#footer').waypoint({
offset: '100%'
});
}, {
offset: '100%'
});
var ajax = {
parseJSONP:function(result){
//var jsonObj = jQuery.parseJSON(parameters);
$("#list").append('<li>Movie name:<span> ' + result[0].original_name+ '</span></li>');
$("#list").append('<li>Popularity:<span> ' + result[0].popularity + '</span></li>');
$("#list").append('<li>Rating:<span> ' + result[0].rating+ '</span></li>');
$("#list").append('<li>Overview:<span> ' + result[0].overview+ '</span></li>');
$("#list").append('<li>Released:<span> ' + result[0].released+ '</span></li>');
$("#list").listview('refresh');
}
}
You also need to prevent another $.ajax call before last one is over.