A method, a device and a touch screen device for refreshing the content of a draggable listview are provided. The method includes determining, by a processor, whether the draggable listview is dragged by a user; if not, triggering, by the processor, a thread to refresh the content of items in the draggable listview at a preset refreshing frequency; if yes, triggering, by the processor, the thread to stop refreshing the content of the items in the draggable listview, performing, by the processor, a drag operation in the draggable listview, after the dragging operation is finished, triggering, by the processor, the thread to refresh the content of the items in the draggable listview at the preset refreshing frequency.