An alternative to using WiFi.scanNetworks(); ?

[aleskramzar]

Hello,

I am making an application with the ESP32-C3-WROOM02 chip that checks for all available networks to connect to.
Currently i am using the WiFi.scanNetworks() function from the WiFi arduino library and it works ok.
However, when this function executes, it stopes the execution of the rest of the code for about 5 seconds, which is a problem for my aplication.

Is there a function or library that can check for available WiFi SSIDs without stoping the execution of the program, or at least doing it fast enough (sub 1 second) so that the program can do other things?