Error in Xamarin Android with a progress dialog “Only the original thread that created a view hierarchy can touch its views”

Question

I\'m trying to use a progress dialog, while filling a datagrid, but I get the following error: \"Only the original thread that created a view hierarchy can touch its views\", th

Answer 1

why not use Task instead?

Task.Run(() => doStuff("hello world"));

It doesn't really seem a lot better, but at least it doesn't have an unused identifier.

Note: Task.Run() is .Net 4.5 or later. If you're using .Net 4 you have to do:

Task.Factory.StartNew(() => doStuff("hello world"));

Both of the above do use the thread pool.