diff --git a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tests/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tests/ManifestTest.cs b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tests/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tests/ManifestTest.cs
index 272584272a5..5b3618ea99e 100644
--- a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tests/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tests/ManifestTest.cs
+++ b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Tests/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tests/ManifestTest.cs
@@ -266,6 +266,8 @@ public void DirectBootAwareAttribute ()
 				Assert.IsNotNull (le, "no activity element found");
 				Assert.IsTrue (doc.XPathSelectElements ("//activity[@android:directBootAware='true']", nsResolver).Any (),
 						   "'activity' element is not generated as expected.");
+				Assert.IsTrue (doc.XPathSelectElements ("//provider[@android:name='mono.MonoRuntimeProvider' and @android:directBootAware='true']", nsResolver).Any (),
+						   "'provider' element is not generated as expected.");
 			}
 		}
 
diff --git a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Utilities/ManifestDocument.cs b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Utilities/ManifestDocument.cs
index 8524dccb6ed..b9405e57ff7 100644
--- a/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Utilities/ManifestDocument.cs
+++ b/src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Utilities/ManifestDocument.cs
@@ -630,10 +630,12 @@ IList<string> AddMonoRuntimeProviders (XElement app)
 
 		XElement CreateMonoRuntimeProvider (string name, string processName, int initOrder)
 		{
+			var directBootAware = DirectBootAware ();
 			return new XElement ("provider",
 						new XAttribute (androidNs + "name", name),
 						new XAttribute (androidNs + "exported", "false"),
 						new XAttribute (androidNs + "initOrder", initOrder),
+						directBootAware ? new XAttribute (androidNs + "directBootAware", "true") : null,
 						processName == null ? null : new XAttribute (androidNs + "process", processName),
 						new XAttribute (androidNs + "authorities", PackageName + "." + name + ".__mono_init__"));
 		}
@@ -658,6 +660,22 @@ public bool ExtractNativeLibraries ()
 			return true;
 		}
 
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Returns true if an element has the @android:directBootAware attribute and its 'true'
+		/// </summary>
+		public bool DirectBootAware ()
+		{
+			var processAttrName = androidNs.GetName ("directBootAware");
+			foreach (XElement el in app.Elements ()) {
+				var proc = el.Attribute (processAttrName);
+				if (proc != null && bool.TryParse (proc.Value, out bool value) && value)
+					return true;
+			}
+
+			// If android:directBootAware is omitted, returns false.
+			return false;
+		}
+
 		XElement ActivityFromTypeDefinition (TypeDefinition type, string name, int targetSdkVersion)
 		{
 			if (name.StartsWith ("_"))