Navigate to page on start in .NET Maui app - maui

Question

Seems like a simple question, but I haven't been able to find a simple answer. Essentially I want to choose which page in the app to start on based on some stored state. I added a GoToAsync call in the AppShell constructor, but this didn't work--which makes sense because the AppShell hasn't been fully constructed yet.
I found this answer, but it feels like it kind of skirts around the issue:
Maui AppShell - Navigate on Open
Where is the best place to inject some code that will run once on startup and can successfully navigate a .NET Maui app to a chosen page?

Answer 1

After playing around with overrides, it seems like overriding Application.OnStart works! Shell.Current is set at this point and navigation works.
Here's additional code that allows for asynchronous initialization and uses a Loading Page until the initialization is complete:
using MyApp.Services;
using MyApp.UI;
namespace MyApp;
public partial class App : Application
{
ConfigurationProviderService m_configProvider;
public App(ConfigurationProviderService configProvider)
{
m_configProvider = configProvider;
InitializeComponent();
MainPage = new LoadingPage();
}
protected override void OnStart()
{
var task = InitAsync();
task.ContinueWith((task) =>
{
MainThread.BeginInvokeOnMainThread(() =>
{
MainPage = new AppShell();
// Choose navigation depending on init
Shell.Current.GoToAsync(...);
});
});
base.OnStart();
}
private async Task InitAsync()
{
await m_configProvider.InitAsync();
}
}