Xamarin.iOS Concurrent Programming in Xamarin.iOS Using Async and await
Example
You can use async methods to handle asynchronous executions. For example POST and GET requests. Let say below is your get data method.
Task<List> GetDataFromServer(int type);
You can call that method as shown below
var result = await GetDataFromServer(1);
However, in real day practice this method will be in a service layer interface. There for best way to do that is create a separate method to call this and update UI shown below.
//Calling from viewDidLoad
void async ViewDidLoad()
{
await GetDataListFromServer(1);
//Do Something else
}
//New method call to handle the async task
private async Task GetArchivedListFromServer(int type)
{
var result = await GetDataFromServer(type);
DataList.AddRange(result.toList());
tableView.ReloadData();
}
In the above code snippet, GetDataListFromServer method will get called and it will send the web request. Nevertheless, it will not block the UI thread till it gets the response from the server. It will move down the line after await GetDataListFromServer(1). However, inside the private async Task GetArchivedListFromServer(int type) method, it will wait till it gets the response from the server in order to execute the lines after var result = await GetDataFromServer(type);.
