[rschiks]

Richard,

Please set the library to be cached on the iOS device so it doesnt have to reload the library list each time you open the app.

The Remote For Kodi does a lot better job on load time. You might want to ask those guys for help.

Their way of caching will break a lot of functionality, so that's why I don't implement that.

How long does it currently take for you?

Retrieving items from Kodi happens in a few steps:
1. Kodi needs to retrieve the data from the database
2. Kodi needs to prepare the data to be sent
3. The app receives the data
4. The app needs to process the data

Step 2 and 4 take most time of the time in this whole process and increases when there are more items in the Kodi library.

I think you can imagine that an i7 is faster with step 2 than a rPi and an iPad Pro is faster than an iPad 4th generation with step 4.