Move populateSketchbookMenu to a separate thread #1037
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We were getting reports of Processing being slow to start, we diagnosed it to having a lot of folders within the sketchbook. The problem arises from Processing indexing all the folders recursively on the UI thread.
While this has been a known issue—documented in the troubleshooting guide—we noticed it's made significantly worse in cases where users have multiple Android SDKs installed inside their sketchbook; each SDK contains a large number of subfolders, making Processing hang for a long time on startup or when switching mode.
This PR moves the scanning to a separate thread. It also skips scanning the
androidfolder if present in the sketchbook.These changes should help alleviate some of the slowdown but it’s only a quick fix. Long term, we probably need a better approach, avoiding recursion and maybe caching the results.
Fixes #1036
Related to #897?