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diff --git a/‎src/Microsoft.Android.Runtime.NativeAOT/Android.Runtime.NativeAOT/JavaInteropRuntime.cs‎
Lines changed: 7 additions & 0 deletions b/‎src/Microsoft.Android.Runtime.NativeAOT/Android.Runtime.NativeAOT/JavaInteropRuntime.cs‎
Lines changed: 7 additions & 0 deletions
diff --git a/‎src/Mono.Android/Android.Runtime/JNIEnvInit.cs‎
Lines changed: 9 additions & 4 deletions b/‎src/Mono.Android/Android.Runtime/JNIEnvInit.cs‎
Lines changed: 9 additions & 4 deletions
@@ -17,6 +17,13 @@ static int JNI_OnLoad (IntPtr vm, IntPtr reserved)
 		try {
 			AndroidLog.Print (AndroidLogLevel.Info, "JavaInteropRuntime", "JNI_OnLoad()");
 			XA_Host_NativeAOT_JNI_OnLoad (vm, reserved);
+			// This must be called before anything else, otherwise we'll see several spurious GC invocations and log messages
+			// similar to:
+			//
+			//  09-15 14:51:01.311 11071 11071 D monodroid-gc: 1 outstanding GREFs. Performing a full GC!
+			//
+			JNIEnvInit.NativeAotInitializeMaxGrefGet ();
+
 			LogcatTextWriter.Init ();
 			return (int) JniVersion.v1_6;
 		}
 
@@ -77,15 +77,20 @@ static Type TypeGetType (string typeName) =>
 			androidRuntime!.TypeManager.RegisterNativeMembers (jniType, type, methods);
 		}
 
-		// NOTE: should have different name than `Initialize` to avoid:
-		// * Assertion at /__w/1/s/src/mono/mono/metadata/icall.c:6258, condition `!only_unmanaged_callers_only' not met
-		internal static void InitializeJniRuntime (JniRuntime runtime)
+		// This must be called by NativeAOT before InitializeJniRuntime, as early as possible
+		internal static void NativeAotInitializeMaxGrefGet ()
 		{
-			androidRuntime = runtime;
 			gref_gc_threshold = RuntimeNativeMethods._monodroid_max_gref_get ();
 			if (gref_gc_threshold != int.MaxValue) {
 				gref_gc_threshold = checked((gref_gc_threshold * 9) / 10);
 			}
+		}
+
+		// NOTE: should have different name than `Initialize` to avoid:
+		// * Assertion at /__w/1/s/src/mono/mono/metadata/icall.c:6258, condition `!only_unmanaged_callers_only' not met
+		internal static void InitializeJniRuntime (JniRuntime runtime)
+		{
+			androidRuntime = runtime;
 			SetSynchronizationContext ();
 		}