Awaitable.BackgroundThreadAsync

Returns

BackgroundThreadAwaitable Awaitable object that completes when switching to a background thread.

Description

Resumes execution on a ThreadPool background thread. Completes immediately when called from a background thread.

private async Awaitable<float> DoSomeHeavyComputationInBackgroundAsync(bool continueOnMainThread = true)
{
    await Awaitable.BackgroundThreadAsync();
    // do some heavy math here
    float result = 42;

    // by default, switch back to main thread:
    if(continueOnMainThread){
        await Awaitable.MainThreadAsync();
    }
    return result;
}

public async Awaitable Start()
{
    var computationResult = await DoSomeHeavyComputationInBackgroundAsync();
    await SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync("my-scene");
}