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 the ability to create and consume multiple threads, in modern applications on Xamarin target platforms, this model has been extended with concurrency implementations that delegate the responsibility of thread management to runtime and allow the developer only to define execution blocks which may or may not be executed on a separate thread.

Single thread model

In Android and iOS, each mobile application is started and run on a single thread that is generally referred to as the main or the UI thread. Most of the UI interaction and process lifecycle event handlers and delegates are executed on this thread.

In this model, developers' main concern should...