Task Status WaitingForActivation
c#, xamarin, xamarin.android
Solution
It keeps hanging because the status never leaves WaitingForActivation when I call it.
Actually, the `WaitingForActivation` is just an indication that the task has not yet completed. It's not the cause of the hang, but an indicator of it. Promise Tasks (including tasks returned by `async` methods) will stay in the `WaitingForActivation` state until they complete; I describe the task state machine in more detail on my blog.
The most likely cause of a deadlock is calling `Task<T>.Result` or `Task.Wait` further up the stack. I describe this deadlock in full on my blog, but the gist of it is that `await` will capture a "current context" and use that to resume its `async` method. If called from the UI thread, then that context is the UI thread, and if the UI thread is blocked by calling `Result`/`Wait`, then the `async` method cannot resume on that UI thread.
Problem
I have the following function : ``` async public Task<bool> checkNetwork (RestClient _client, ConnectivityManager conn) { var connected = false; var activeConn = conn.ActiveNetworkInfo; if (activeConn != null && activeConn.IsConnected) { var request = new RestRequest (); request.Timeout = 5000; var response = await _client.ExecuteAwait (request); //Task<IRestResponse> tmpResponse = _client.ExecuteAsync (request); if (response.ErrorException != null) connected = false; else connected = true; } return connected; } ``` It keeps hanging because the status never leaves WaitingForActivation when I call it. Any ideas?