OnAppearing() not doing the FadeTo

I have a simple label which I would like to fade in. I have a StackLayout with 2 labels, I would like one to fly into view.

This is the XAML:

<StackLayout>
    <Label x:Name="FlyText"
        Text="I want to fly"
         FontFamily="Arial"
         FontSize="Large"
          />
    <Label x:Name="Other"
         Text="View this!"
         FontSize="Medium" />
</StackLayout>

And I added this to the code:

Option1:(the text just waits and appears all of a sudden)

protected override void OnAppearing()
{
      base.OnAppearing();
      animeMe();
}

 async void animeMe()
{
      await FlyText.FadeTo(1, 7000, Easing.Linear);
}

Option2:(the text just waits and appears all of a sudden)

 protected override void OnAppearing()
{
      base.OnAppearing();
      FlyText.FadeTo(1, 7000, Easing.Linear);
}

Is this a visual studio bug? Xamarin is not working all that well for me. I have the community Edition as I am just starting. The only emulator that works is an Android_Accelerated_X86_Nougat.