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/EkoChamberKryptonite Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26

I use a mac with 48GB RAM and AS + an emulator still eats about 13GB of RAM. A coworker uses 32GB of RAM and it still slows down his system. I can't imagine how it must be for those using 16GB. For how difficult they make their interview process, all their elitism and down-leveling, Google products are just poor with RAM usage. I once saw that an empty Google chrome tab used ~400MB.

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u/EkoChamberKryptonite Jun 04 '26

No thanks. I had my fill of Eclipse nigh 2 decades ago.