I am new to Xamarin and I am messing up with async and await. I am using ZXing to scan barcodes and having success when I just send the JSON and forget it, but if only that was good enough. I need to see the responses from the Server. I have achieved this but it not acting like I want it to. My goal is to Scan a barcode from a ScanPage then redirect to another page to get the response from the server. I tried to make a new overloaded constructor on a response page but I couldn't get it to work.

Here is the code that somewhat works:

        public void Handle_OnScanResult(Result result)
        {
            if (_isScanning)
            {
                _isScanning = false;
                IsAnalyzing = false;
                if (App.ApiUrl != null)
                {
                    DataService ds = new DataService();
                    var scanner = new { scan = new Scan() };
                    var newText = result.Text;
                    scanner.scan.Sku = newText;
                    scanner.scan.Timestamp = DateTime.Now.ToString("dddd, dd MMMM yyyy HH:mm:ss");
                    scanner.scan.Employee = App.Employee;
                    var myContent = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(scanner, Formatting.None);
                    var buffer = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(myContent);
                    var byteContent = new ByteArrayContent(buffer);
                    byteContent.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json");
                    Device.BeginInvokeOnMainThread(async () =>
                    {
                        var p = await ds.PostDataToService(App.ApiUrl, byteContent);
                        await DisplayAlert(p.StatusCode.ToString(), await p.Content.ReadAsStringAsync(), "Ok");
                        await Navigation.PopAsync();
                    });
                }
            }
            Thread.Sleep(2000);
            _isScanning = true;
        }

I hate that Thread.Sleep but the property of ZXing called IsScanning doesn't seem to work nor does the _isScanning bool I made.

I want to do something like this:

```
public void Handle_OnScanResult(Result result)
{
if (_isScanning)
{
_isScanning = false;
IsAnalyzing = false;
if (App.ApiUrl != null)
{
DataService ds = new DataService();
var scanner = new { scan = new Scan() };
var newText = result.Text;
scanner.scan.Sku = newText;
scanner.scan.Timestamp = DateTime.Now.ToString("dddd, dd MMMM yyyy HH:mm:ss");
scanner.scan.Employee = App.Employee;
Navigation.PopAsync();
Navigation.PushAsync(new ResponsePage(scanner));
}
}
}

  public ResponsePage(object scan)  //ctor for new page
  {
        ConstructJSON(scan);
        PostDataToService(scan);
        DisplayResponseHere();
  }

Sorry I am a noob. Thanks if you can help.