Android Issue with Xamarin forms, mvvmcross, tabs and tasks - xamarin

So i am using mvvmcross 6.2 and Xamarin Forms. I have setup the tabs using this informaiton Is there tabbed layout platform provided by mvvmcross?. I have an iOS app that works fine, When running the android app i get the following exception whenever initating one of the tasks.
Java.Lang.IllegalStateException: 'FragmentManager is already executing transactions'
The app is not busy while doing this so the busy indicator is not showing , however the app takes a very long time to change from login page to the tabs home. the exception does not seem to stop the process but it does really slow down the loading.
in my homeviemodel
public async Task ShowInitialViewModels()
{
tasks.Add(NavigationService.Navigate<tab1ViewModel>());
tasks.Add(NavigationService.Navigate<tab2ViewModel>());
tasks.Add(NavigationService.Navigate<tab3ViewModel>());
tasks.Add(NavigationService.Navigate<tabViewModel>());
await CheckFortab5ViewModel();
await Task.WhenAll(tasks);
}
in my home xaml
[XamlCompilation(XamlCompilationOptions.Compile)]
[MvxTabbedPagePresentation(TabbedPosition.Root, WrapInNavigationPage = true, Animated = false)]
public partial class HomePage : MvxTabbedPage<HomeViewModel>
{
in my tabs
[XamlCompilation(XamlCompilationOptions.Compile)]
[MvxTabbedPagePresentation(TabbedPosition.Tab, WrapInNavigationPage = false, NoHistory = true)]
public partial class tab1page: MvxContentPage<tab1ViewModel>
{
any ideas? should i even be worried about this?

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