Visual Studio Code – MAUI Android Animation suddenly instantaneous on local device

On my local device, all my animations in all my MAUI Apps suddenly became instantaneous, I have no idea why. Everything was fine a couple of days ago.

The only thing I can think of is that I tried yesterday to play with the Particle.Maui nugget which didn’t work at first because I missed adding a .UseSkiaSharp() in the MauiProgram.cs. I had some weird messages from Visual Studio telling me that there was an issue with "Just My Code".

A simple animation does not even work : if I create a new Maui .NET 7 project and in the code of the dummy button add this code (the kind of code I used a lot for my buttons before) :

    private void OnCounterClicked(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        // Animation
        new Animation {
            { 0, 1, new Animation (v => CounterBtn.Scale   = v, 1.0, 5.0) }
        }.Commit(this, "TapScale", length: 300, easing: Easing.CubicOut);
    }

On Window, it’s smooth as expected, yielding the expected result. On my local Android device, however, the 5 scale value is applied to full extend instantaneously. I tried with another animation type, for instance, the opacity, and the behaviour is the same : no animation, it just jumps to the final result.

This impacts all my applications I developed, even existing ones that were not deployed again since I spotted the issue.

I just tried with an Android Emulator with the same level as my local device (Android 13 – API33), everything’s fine, so it seems it is linked specifically to my device.

Is there a developper settings I played with that I cannot recall which magically stops the animation ?