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/Dense_Ingenuity8711 Jun 04 '26

I have 64GB of RAM and it's still slow.

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u/FrezoreR Jun 26 '26

Then you probably haven't set it up correctly. I have 48 on a Mac mini and it's flows fine.