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I have found this: Is AOT (ahead of time) compilation available (or planned) in mono for android?

However this question is old.

At mono project page it I see ARM is supported for AOT but nothing about Android.

Is AOT available now for Android?

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Yes, in the commerical version (Monodriod is now Xamarin.Andriod) there is an option to AOT compile your Andriod assemblies just like Xamarin does for iOS (which is a mandatory requirement for Apple store submission):

Android AOT Compilation

The AOT Compilation option enables Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation of assemblies. When this option is enabled, Just In Time (JIT) startup overhead is minimized by precompiling assemblies before runtime. The resulting native code is included in the APK along with the uncompiled assemblies. This results in shorter application startup time, but at the expense of slightly larger APK sizes.

Note that the AOT Compilation option is currently a preview feature and requires a Business license or higher. AOT compilation is available only when the project is configured for Release mode, and it is disabled by default.

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