@Tom the new collection-repeat has improved significantly. I would recommend upgrading to the latest (rc1)
After a lot of test the problem is the js scroll. It causes a lot of lag in the lists. When will we able to use native scroll in collection-repeat? @perry By now the solution is use ng-repeat with overflow-scroll=true (native scroll) in the specific view.
Try react native. It is a great tool. Come angular2, you can render reactive native components instead of the DOM. Something big will happen soon. JS devs will rule!
@siddhartha the implementation of the listview of react native is not fast. You can see many comments in GitHub about that.
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