Hi, I dynamically create the pages using the constructor of the ContentPage rather than using xaml. As part of this I sometimes need to call async methods which obviously doesn't follow the "Async all the way" theory as the constructor cannot be async.
So effectively what I want to do is an async OnCreate() method (OnAppearing doesn't work as I have to be able to navigate away and back again without recreating the screen) but content pages don't appear to have that method.
If I then call an async method in the constructor I either need to .Wait() it which freezes the UIThread which is bad, the alternative is to have it just 'fire and forget' which doesn't really work as the page will initialise before I have refreshed the data.
Am I missing something?