What I want to do: run a background thread which calculates ListView contents and update ListView partially, while results are calculated.
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My solution:
1) create a temp ArrayList.
2) do your heavy works (sqlite row fetch , ...) in doInBackground method and add items to the temp arraylist.
3) add all items from temp araylist to your listview's arraylist in onPostExecute method.
note: you may want to delete some items from listview and also delete from sqlite database and maybe delete some files related to items from sdcard , just remove items from database and remove their related files and add them to temp arraylist in background thread. then in UI thread delete items existing in temp arraylist from the listview's arraylist.
Hope this helps.