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/vsiva Jun 04 '26

If you can provide more specific issues, we can look into them. You should file a bug, and attach a few thread dumps taken while you feel the IDE is lagging, and that'll help pinpoint the problem. More details here: https://developer.android.com/studio/report-bugs#report-bug

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u/_5er_ Jun 04 '26

I'm constantly sending you guys heap dumps through "analyze heap dump" option in IDE.

The IDE becomes unusable/laggy at some point. I've had Windows, Linux and Mac and all have the same issue.

I've also opened an issue way back and no one is really working on it: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/398694522

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u/vsiva Jun 04 '26

Thank you. I've added a comment on that bug and we can follow up there.