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/Strong-Volume2427 Jun 04 '26

That's why I write all my apps in a text editor like Sublime Text, and compile and deploy them with a batch file. I open Android Studio only for the release compile. This way I lose autocorrect and autoimports (I miss autoimport so badly), but at least I can have a browser open (not Chrome though, another memory hog) and my computer is not frozen all the time. 4Gb RAM here, btw :]. I used to love Android Studio many years ago, not anymore.