[regression/8.0.0] [Android] .NET 8 TabBar Title is bold vs .NET 7 TabBar which is not bold

[Kaiffa]

Description

As title says. Why is the title changed to bold? Is this a bug or is this by design? If it's by design how do we change it back to not bold?

NET 8:

NET 7:

Steps to Reproduce

1. New MAUI project
2. Add a tabbar in the AppShell.xaml:

`

<ShellContent Title="Tab 2" ContentTemplate="{DataTemplate local:MainPage}" />
<ShellContent Title="Tab 3" ContentTemplate="{DataTemplate local:MainPage}" />

`

MainPage is a simple page

Link to public reproduction project repository

No response

Version with bug

8.0.0-rc.2.9511

Is this a regression from previous behavior?

Yes, this used to work in .NET MAUI

Last version that worked well

7.0.100

Affected platforms

Android

Affected platform versions

Android 13.0

Did you find any workaround?

No

Relevant log output

No response

[PureWeen]

My guess is that the font loading code changed between NET8/NET7

[XamlTest]

Verified this on Visual Studio Enterprise 17.8.0 Preview 7.0. Repro on Android 14.0-API34(8.0.0-rc.2.9530), not repro on Android 14.0-API34(7.0.96) and Windows 11 with below Project: 18574.zip

[Xideta]

Also happens to the icons each tab can have, which causes a somewhat annoying misalignment of the selected tab.