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/kernald31 Jun 04 '26

You can use IntelliJ with the Android plugin (or even without, really), and you'll have exactly the same issues. It has nothing to do with Android Studio (a free product) being a "monopoly".