Android App download size grew between Xamarin.Forms and MAUI

[BioTurboNick]

A plot of my app's download size over time:

Until last week, it was using Xamarin.Forms. Now it's using MAUI.

What explains the huge increase in size? Is the linker/trimmer more conservative? Is there something I can do to change it? Is this something that only the MAUI team can improve over time? Or will it be unable to be changed?

The breakdown on the Play console shows 7.27 MB are "native libraries", 12.3 MB are "other". Assets, Resources, and Code / Dex are each less than 3 MB.

[BioTurboNick]

Oh, it's because of AOT compilation being turned on. Hmm.