Navigation is not done when showing Alert in the Init() method

Hello.

When I try to show an alert from the PageModel’s Init() method (if there is any exception I want to show any UI alert), not only the navigation to the page is not done, but the navigation is “broken” for the all the application (so I can’t do push to anywhere).

    public override void Init(object initData)
    {
        base.Init(initData);
        ...
        UserDialogs.Instance.Alert("Message", "Message content", "Close");            
    }

I have already tried without the UserDialogs plugin, and the error persists:

    ((MasterPage)Application.Current.MainPage).DisplayAlert("Message", "Message content", "Close");

Is this a bug? Any workaround?

Waiting for your replies. Thanks.

[lloydkevin]

I’m had similar issues with Init().

Since this get’s called before the view model is set as the BindingContext on the page, then you can’t perform any UI activities here.

I’ve had to resort to saving the parameter as a member variable, then doing any of my real work in the ViewIsAppearing()

[rid00z]

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