Chapter 3. Asynchronous Programming
This chapter deep-dives into the asynchronous and multithreaded programming concepts. We will discuss platform-specific problems and give an in-depth description of how threading scenarios are executed on different platforms. The chapter is divided into following sections:
- Multithreading on Xamarin
- Asynchronous methods
- Parallel execution
- Patterns and best practices
- Background tasks
Multithreading on Xamarin
Xamarin platforms together with Windows Runtime follow the basic principles of a single-threaded apartment model. In this model, in simple terms, a process is assigned a single thread which acts as the main trunk for all the other possible branches to be created from and yield back to.
While developers still have ...
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