UIImage loaded from URL in Xamarin / C#

Question

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Is there a standard way to create a UIImage with an image from a URL? Something like:

Answer 1

With new await/async support you can do:

public async Task LoadImage (string imageUrl)
        {
            var httpClient = new HttpClient();

            Task contentsTask = httpClient.GetByteArrayAsync (imageUrl);

            // await! control returns to the caller and the task continues to run on another thread
            var contents = await contentsTask;

            // load from bytes
            return UIImage.LoadFromData (NSData.FromArray (contents));
        }

and you call this with:

someYourUIImageObjectOnUI.Image = await this.LoadImage ("some image url");