As I began UI Testing my Xamarin.Forms application I noticed Peak memory usage of > 220MB. This seems high to me. So I created a blank Xamarin.Forms app from the template. i.e. the app that says "Welcome to Xamarin Forms!". When I run it in debug on an the Xamarin android emulator and use the Android Device Monitor it shows a max memory allocation of 155Mb. What is going on here? Are all Xamarin Forms apps going to start with this high of memory usage?
Currently in my actual app I am getting out of memory failures when running on the test cloud devices. Any help here would be appreciated.