OpenUrl freezes app for over 10 seconds

Question

I\'m currently developing an App, that needs to open a browser to display a webpage. To do that i use the [UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL method with

Answer 1

Thanks for the advise from all the guys above, this is how I solved it in Xamarin.iOS (and Xamarin.Forms). The solution is inspired by what the guys have discussed above, and hope it helps others facing the same problem but using Xamarin.

[Register("AppDelegate")]
public class AppDelegate
{
     ....


 public override bool OpenUrl(UIApplication application, NSUrl url, string sourceApplication, NSObject annotation)
 {
      // We do some logic to respond to launching app, and return to that app. 
      Task.Delay(500).ContinueWith(_ => {
            this.InvokeOnMainThread( () => {
                UIApplication.SharedApplication.OpenUrl(NSUrl.FromString(openUri));
            });
        });
 }


}