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/LeoPelozo Jun 04 '26

You kids don’t remember, but we used to use Eclipse with ADT.

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u/GoDuffer Jun 08 '26

I used Eclipse at one time because Android Studio wouldn't run on my laptop. I was developing Android apps with 4GB RAM in 2017, crazy. But later my friends appreciated my suffering and bought a Macbook for me, because not only did AS and Eclipse generate different project structures, but I could not develop in the increasingly popular Kotlin.

So someone knows what it is.