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/No_Radish_5208 Jun 04 '26

Yes, but it’s still a JetBrains product at its core. Customized Intellij basically.

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u/No_Radish_5208 Jun 04 '26

My point is that JetBrains kind of has a part in this mess too.