Xamarin Forms App Calling Web API

[Kevin Marois]

I'm learning Xamaring Forms. I want to test connecting to a Web API. I have a an Asp.Net Framework Web API running and I can connect to to it. However, in my Xamarin Forms page, when I call it, the call to GetAsync never returns:

public class MainPageViewModel : _ViewModelBase
{
private string url = "https://localhost:44340/api/Test/GetAll";
public List Items { get; set; }
public MainPageViewModel()
{
GetData();
}
private async Task GetData()
{
try
{
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync(url); // <====== NEVER RETURNS

        if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
        {
            string content = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
            Items = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject\>(content);
        }
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        throw;
    }
}

}

I can paste the URL into a browser and see the JSON results. If the WebAPI is NOT running the GetAsync throws. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

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