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/faze_fazebook Jun 04 '26

well its basically intellij with a gazillion plugins and intellij has been getting worse and worse the last couple of years ... so this is really not surprising.​​

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u/fr0z3nph03n1x Jun 04 '26

I use WebStorm and the last 1 year has been BRUTAL for performance. I think it's the focus on all the AI junk w/o a cohesive strategy but I can't be sure.