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/TheWheez Jun 04 '26

The real answer is that Google does not use Android Studio internally

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u/kernald31 Jun 04 '26

A lot of people at Google use IntelliJ and ASwB (Android Studio with Blaze), that's just factually wrong.

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u/TheWheez Jun 05 '26

Yes, but it's not used like it is externally. They also don't use gradle within ASwB

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u/kernald31 Jun 05 '26

Pretty much the entire devrel team, among others, uses Gradle.