[MonoTouch] Webservice no internet connection

[Nic Wise]

> Doing a web-service call onthe UI thread should be ok if you intend the app
> to block during the call? i.e. where the user is carrying out an action that
> requires it to complete before they move on?
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Well, it would be "ok", but putting it into another thread is a lot
better, as it gives you the option of doing things like allowing it to
be cancelled,
having animations or progress (eg "loaded 1 or 5" etc), which you will
not easily get if it's all in the UI thread.

If the whole app goes dark for 10 seconds, the user will assume it's
died, and start blaming you.

> I do this in my apps but I do suffer with the process hanging sometimes for
> a long time and it happens inconsistently. I can't really allow them to run
> on a new thread as I need the action to complete.

I do this, and need to wait for the process to finish, in a couple of
my apps. Works great :)

Might be a different usecase tho.

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