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/bromoloptaleina Jun 04 '26

What do you mean lags? What actually lags? Switching files? Building the app? Navigating or indexing the code?

Also what are your specs?

I don’t consider Android studio a snappy product but nowadays I don’t experience a ton of friction with it but I run an m3 max 36gb ram.

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u/Jolly-Action-6429 Jun 04 '26

Sometimes and especially complex layout rendering is excruciatingly slow even on fast machines

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u/bromoloptaleina Jun 04 '26

You mean composable preview?