diff --git a/.external b/.external
index 9417d72df09..99622e376dc 100644
--- a/.external
+++ b/.external
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-xamarin/monodroid:main@76c04cd15eca7afc269a6d26296e9d2db6f79be2
+xamarin/monodroid:main@1f2ce156245ef1bf63ec8014882d283b3224216b
 mono/mono:2020-02@c633fe923832f0c3db3c4e6aa98e5592bf5a06e7
diff --git a/tests/MSBuildDeviceIntegration/Tests/InstantRunTest.cs b/tests/MSBuildDeviceIntegration/Tests/InstantRunTest.cs
index c1065b4b867..0b79aa712d2 100644
--- a/tests/MSBuildDeviceIntegration/Tests/InstantRunTest.cs
+++ b/tests/MSBuildDeviceIntegration/Tests/InstantRunTest.cs
@@ -297,6 +297,10 @@ public void InstantRunNativeLibrary ([Values ("dx", "d8")] string dexTool)
 					nativeLib,
 				},
 			};
+			if (Builder.UseDotNet) {
+				//NOTE: in .NET 6 by default an x86_64 emulator would fall back to x86 if we don't set this.
+				proj.SetAndroidSupportedAbis (DeviceAbi);
+			}
 			proj.SetDefaultTargetDevice ();
 			using (var b = CreateApkBuilder (Path.Combine ("temp", TestName))) {
 				Assert.IsTrue (b.Install (proj), "install should have succeeded. 0");