diff --git a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tests/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tests/BuildTest.cs b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tests/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tests/BuildTest.cs
index 22978f97641..f7ba75aa2ba 100644
--- a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tests/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tests/BuildTest.cs
+++ b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tests/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tests/BuildTest.cs
@@ -3938,7 +3938,11 @@ public void PackageNamingPolicy ([Values ("LowercaseMD5", "LowercaseCrc64")] str
 				Assert.IsTrue (b.Build (proj), "build should have succeeded.");
 				var environment = b.Output.GetIntermediaryPath (Path.Combine ("__environment__.txt"));
 				FileAssert.Exists (environment);
-				Assert.AreEqual ($"__XA_PACKAGE_NAMING_POLICY__={packageNamingPolicy}", File.ReadAllText (environment).Trim ());
+				if (Builder.UseDotNet) {
+					Assert.AreEqual ($"__XA_PACKAGE_NAMING_POLICY__={packageNamingPolicy}{Environment.NewLine}mono.enable_assembly_preload=0", File.ReadAllText (environment).Trim ());
+				} else {
+					Assert.AreEqual ($"__XA_PACKAGE_NAMING_POLICY__={packageNamingPolicy}", File.ReadAllText (environment).Trim ());
+				}
 			}
 		}
 
diff --git a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets
index ed74feed490..396002fb80c 100644
--- a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets
+++ b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets
@@ -291,7 +291,8 @@ Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Xamarin. All rights reserved.
 	<AndroidMakeBundleKeepTemporaryFiles Condition=" '$(AndroidMakeBundleKeepTemporaryFiles)' == '' ">False</AndroidMakeBundleKeepTemporaryFiles>
 
 	<!-- If true it will cause all the assemblies in the apk to be preloaded on startup time -->
-        <_AndroidEnablePreloadAssembliesDefault>True</_AndroidEnablePreloadAssembliesDefault>
+	<_AndroidEnablePreloadAssembliesDefault Condition=" '$(UsingAndroidNETSdk)' == 'true' ">False</_AndroidEnablePreloadAssembliesDefault>
+	<_AndroidEnablePreloadAssembliesDefault Condition=" '$(UsingAndroidNETSdk)' != 'true' ">True</_AndroidEnablePreloadAssembliesDefault>
 	<AndroidEnablePreloadAssemblies Condition=" '$(AndroidEnablePreloadAssemblies)' == '' ">$(_AndroidEnablePreloadAssembliesDefault)</AndroidEnablePreloadAssemblies>
 	<_NativeAssemblySourceDir>$(IntermediateOutputPath)android\</_NativeAssemblySourceDir>
 	<_AndroidUseNewTypemaps>True</_AndroidUseNewTypemaps>