Place a timer in a Xamarin Carousel page

Question

I would like to place a timer in a Xamarin Forms carousel page, to make the 'swipe' happen automatically if the user does nothing.

Being new to Xamarin I'm not entirely sure if I can do this as I would outwith Xamarin, by creating a System.Timer in code-behind.

The auto swipe should happen after 3 seconds, and swipe through the carousel at 3 second intervals.

Can anyone tell me if this is a viable approach?

Answer 1

Solved it by using:

Device.StartTimer(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(3), () =>
{   
    // run swipe code
    Task.WaitAll(_scvm.MoveNext());
    return true;
});

After the InitialzeComponent() line