I am trying to make a download page in Xamarin Forms (PCL, so WebClient is not used) with a progress bar. I used the following information from Xamarin, but to no avail:
http://developer.xamarin.com/recipes/ios/network/web_requests/download_a_file/
http://developer.xamarin.com/recipes/cross-platform/networking/download_progress/
This is my current code (with a progress bar):
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Xamarin.Forms;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.IO;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace DownloadExample
{
public partial class DownloadPage : ContentPage
{
public DownloadPage ()
{
InitializeComponent ();
DownloadFile("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/LARGE_elevation.jpg");
}
private async Task<long> DownloadFile(string url)
{
long receivedBytes = 0;
long totalBytes = 0;
HttpClient client = new HttpClient ();
using (var stream = await client.GetStreamAsync(url)) {
byte[] buffer = new byte[4096];
totalBytes = stream.Length;
for (;;) {
int bytesRead = await stream.ReadAsync (buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
if (bytesRead == 0) {
await Task.Yield ();
break;
}
receivedBytes += bytesRead;
int received = unchecked((int)receivedBytes);
int total = unchecked((int)totalBytes);
double percentage = ((float) received) / total;
progressBar1.Progress = percentage;
}
}
return receivedBytes;
}
}
}
Now I need to save the file in local storage. But in this example, I do not get the contents of the file, so I can not write it to local storage. What do I need to change in the code to make this possible?
FYI: In this example, I upload an image, but it will be a .pdf / .doc / .docx function.
Thanks in advance.
BR, FG