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

Below code should work,

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

            var contents = await httpClient.GetByteArrayAsync(imageUrl);
            return UIImage.LoadFromData(NSData.FromArray(contents));
}