Taken from from #10573

Author: grendello

src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tests/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tests/Utilities/BaseTest.cs

@@ -564,6 +564,32 @@ protected bool RunCommand (string command, string arguments)
 			}
 		}
 
+		protected bool IgnoreUnsupportedConfiguration (AndroidRuntime runtime, bool aot = false, bool release = false)
+		{
+			if (runtime == AndroidRuntime.NativeAOT) {
+				// NativeAOT is release-only, AOT is always implied
+				if (release) {
+					return false;
+				}
+
+				Assert.Ignore ($"NativeAOT: unsupported configuration (release == {release})");
+				return true;
+			}
+
+			if (runtime == AndroidRuntime.CoreCLR) {
+				// CoreCLR doesn't support AOT
+				if (!aot) {
+					return false;
+				}
+
+				Assert.Ignore ($"CoreCLR: unsupported configuration (aot == {aot})");
+				return true;
+			}
+
+			// MonoVM supports all the combinations
+			return false;
+		}
+
 		[SetUp]
 		public void TestSetup ()
 		{

src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tests/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tests/Utilities/ProjectExtensions.cs

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+using System;
+
 using Xamarin.Android.Tasks;
 using Xamarin.ProjectTools;
 
@@ -10,18 +12,45 @@ public static class ProjectExtensions
 	/// NOTE: $(EnablePreviewFeatures) ignores warning XA1040: The NativeAOT runtime on Android is an experimental feature and not yet suitable for production use.
 	/// </summary>
 	public static void SetRuntime (this XamarinProject project, AndroidRuntime runtime)
+	{
+		DoSetRuntime (project, runtime);
+		EnablePreviewFeaturesIfNeeded (project, runtime);
+	}
+
+	public static void SetRuntime (this XamarinAndroidApplicationProject project, AndroidRuntime runtime)
+	{
+		if (runtime != AndroidRuntime.NativeAOT) {
+			DoSetRuntime (project, runtime);
+			return;
+		}
+		project.SetPublishAot (true, BaseTest.AndroidNdkPath);
+		EnablePreviewFeaturesIfNeeded (project, runtime);
+	}
+
+	static void EnablePreviewFeaturesIfNeeded (XamarinProject project, AndroidRuntime runtime)
+	{
+		if (runtime != AndroidRuntime.NativeAOT) {
+			return;
+		}
+
+		project.SetProperty ("EnablePreviewFeatures", "true");
+	}
+
+	static void DoSetRuntime (XamarinProject project, AndroidRuntime runtime)
 	{
 		switch (runtime) {
 			case AndroidRuntime.CoreCLR:
 				project.SetProperty ("UseMonoRuntime", "false");
 				break;
 			case AndroidRuntime.NativeAOT:
 				project.SetProperty ("PublishAot", "true");
-				project.SetProperty ("EnablePreviewFeatures", "true");
 				break;
-			default:
+			case AndroidRuntime.MonoVM:
 				project.SetProperty ("UseMonoRuntime", "true");
 				break;
+
+			default:
+				throw new NotSupportedException ($"Unsupported runtime {runtime}");
 		}
 	}
 }