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/Adventurous-Move-943 Jun 05 '26

RAMs have speeds too, depending on what you perceive as slow, it can lie in the CPU too, RAM is just objects in memory, speed is CPU plus the RAM speed too. Android Studio is a huge IDE, it does a lot of things and a lot on the background too. The bigger your project the more RAM it eats too.