Maui usage of Glide is preventing us from using our own model loaders

[hgjunip]

Description

We are currently porting a xamarin forms app to MAUI. The app used Android Glide and in it we would add an AppGlideModule that helped us register a couple of model loader factories. But now MAUI has its own AppGlideModule which prevents us from adding one of our own. Glide documentation mentions: "Libraries must not include AppGlideModule implementations. Doing so will prevent any applications that depend on the library from managing their dependencies or configuring options like Glide’s cache sizes and locations.".
This is currently preventing us from using Glide which makes the performance of our app considerably worse. Any workaround or guidance is appreciated.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create an android binding library project and add an AppGlideModule to it.
2. Create a Maui project which references the project created in 1.
3. Try to build and it fails because if finds duplicates of some of the glide classes.

Link to public reproduction project repository

No response

Version with bug

8.0.7 SR2

Is this a regression from previous behavior?

Yes, this used to work in Xamarin.Forms

Last version that worked well

Unknown/Other

Affected platforms

Android

Affected platform versions

No response

Did you find any workaround?

We tried adding our glide module as a LibraryGlideModule but it fails to register correctly.

Relevant log output

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[parth211prajapati]

You can resolve the conflict with Glide in your .NET MAUI project by removing the AppGlideModule from your Xamarin.Forms library and configuring Glide directly in your .NET MAUI project. This involves initializing Glide with the required options and registering any custom model loader factories in your MainActivity.cs (for Android) or AppDelegate.cs (for iOS) files. This approach avoids conflicts and allows you to customize Glide according to your needs.

[hgjunip]

Thanks I didn't know you could register model loaders after initialization. For anyone else who bumps into this, in my main activity I did this:
var glide = Glide.Get(this);
glide.Registry.Append(Class.FromType(typeof(Java.Lang.String)), Class.FromType(typeof(InputStream)), new FontImageSourceLoaderFactory(this));