MQTT publish with system.net.mqtt upon button_click event

Hi, I been working on a small peice of code in Xamarin Forms (my first project) to send a mqtt message upon a button press.
Ive written the code to publish the mqtt message to the test.mosquitto.org server within a C# console app and that seems to be working OK.

`using System;
using System.Net.Mqtt;
using System.Text;

namespace MqttTest.Client
{
class Program
{
const string topic = "test/test/button";

    static void Main (string[] args)
    {
        var config = new MqttConfiguration { Port = 1883 };
        var client = MqttClient.CreateAsync("test.mosquitto.org", config).Result;
        var clientId = "myClientID";
        string message = "test";


        client.ConnectAsync (new MqttClientCredentials (clientId)).Wait ();
        client.SubscribeAsync (topic, MqttQualityOfService.AtLeastOnce).Wait ();
        //Publishes "message" Var 
        client.PublishAsync(new MqttApplicationMessage(topic, Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($"{message}")), MqttQualityOfService.AtLeastOnce).Wait();
    }
}

}
`

Ive now written a very simple xamarin cross platform app with 1 button, 1 button_clicked event and the code for the button clicked event which was written in the above console app.

`using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Xamarin.Forms;
using System.Net.Mqtt;

namespace App1
{
public partial class MainPage : ContentPage
{
public MainPage()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
const string topic = "test/test/button";

    private void Button_Clicked(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        var config = new MqttConfiguration { Port = 1883 };
        var client = MqttClient.CreateAsync("test.mosquitto.org", config).Result;
        var clientId = "clientIdhGHvpYY9uM";
        string message = "Hello";


        client.ConnectAsync(new MqttClientCredentials(clientId)).Wait();
        client.SubscribeAsync(topic, MqttQualityOfService.AtLeastOnce).Wait();
        client.PublishAsync(new MqttApplicationMessage(topic, Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes($"{message}")), MqttQualityOfService.AtLeastOnce).Wait();
    }
}

}
`

Upon testing the app in the emulator, it loads up OK but when I click the button, it freezes the app and does not publish to the test mqtt server.

Can anyone offer any advice on how to get this working

thank you