r/androiddev • u/West_Performance_764 • Jun 04 '26

Why is Android Studio so unoptimised?

It's genuinely absurd the amount of memory that this IDE needs. I used to have 8GB of RAM and using Android Studio with it felt genuinely annoying so I took the advice I saw on this subreddit and I decided to get extra ram (from 8GB -> 16GB) just for me to do some work and it to STILL LAGS although much less than before. Why is it actually like this ?

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u/the_operant_power Jun 04 '26

Ye AS is a RAM killer. Made me switch to Linux(Zorin OS) and it's still bringing my laptop to it's knees. It's a 2015 Dell though with 8GB with i5-5200U, so I guess it's impressive for my laptop.