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

You want to be sure that you load the image async so that you do not block your UI thread. MonoTouch.Dialog includes an ImageLoader (see sec 5.3) class that you could use.

There are also a couple of variations of UrlImageStore out there to help with async loading images.

Finally, if you want to do it manually, there is a Xamarin Recipe you can use.