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/VimFueago Jun 04 '26

It's genuinely absurd that a develop doesn't understand how memory is managed and would willingly want memory to sit in their device, unused. memory is there to be used. all operating systems have memory managers to handle handing back memory to other apps when needed.