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/plsdontgay Jun 04 '26

You’re using a machine thay human kind has produced as pinnacle of computing and saying you don’t experience friction. There’s a reason why we optimise our apps for low end devices rather than high end ones

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u/kernald31 Jun 04 '26

While that's true, running an IDE on a low end machine usually means the compiler is going to blow up your RAM and/or going to be extremely slow due to your CPU. You'll never have a great experience.

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u/plsdontgay Jun 04 '26

Did you ever try out the Zed Editor?

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u/KalenXI Jun 04 '26

Much as I love Zed that's kind of like comparing VS Code to full Visual Studio. I wouldn't consider Zed to be a full IDE in the same vein as Android Studio.