Android Studio is painfully slow. It's not just the Gradle build times (which I have seen reach 40+ minutes before I cancelled), it's the whole IDE and my whole computer slows down when AS is open. When I click anywhere in AS, whether it's inside the code or menu items or anything else, it takes seconds to respond.
I uninstalled Eclipse because it was too buggy. AS isn't as buggy but it's way too slow.
Here is what I have tried so far:
Made sure I'm not in presentation mode
Tried both having Compile independent modules in parallel ticked and unticked - slow on both
Changed vmoptions to have -Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=1024
Ticked Make project automatically
Ticked Use in-process building
Ticked Configure on demand
Ticked Offline work in Gradle
Added --offline in Command-line Options
Added Thumbs.db in "Ignore files and folders" (Editor -> File Types)
Added org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx2048m, org.gradle.daemon=true and org.gradle.parallel=true to gradle.properties
Made sure I'm adding only the google play services libraries that I need
None of these solutions helped so how do I fix this? Please don't link a post if it just has things I've tried above.
Like karun already said, an i3 is definitely too low powered to run Android Studio. I'd recommend at least an i7 2ghz or faster, paired with a pure ssd storage (spinning disks are horribly slow in comparison). 8gb RAM is the absolute minimum, 16gb or even more would be better. Android Studio is a heavy-wight IDE and it uses a lot of memory, especially when running gradle in parallel mode.
With such a setup, it still doesn't feel what I would call "fast", but it's OK, regarding all the tasks going on at the same time.
If you want to keep the i3, then the best you can do is to equip it with as much RAM as possible. Also replace your disc (if it's a spinning one) by a fast ssd drive.
This is not a solution, but i think i3 processors are not much powerful to run Android studio smoothly. I had i5 processor and 4GB ram, and I couldn't run chrome and android studio simultaneously with ease but now I've upgraded my ram to 8GB, which helps a lot, still the laptop freezes a bit when the gradle files are being built but other times every thing runs smoothly.
Did you also check -Xms2048m in vmOptions?
This affects the initial ram your android studio takes from the system when loading. The other setting you have (-Xmx2048m) affects the maximum ram android studio can get.
Also setting (-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=1024m) helps.
I have a few things for you to try out:
Try an older version of android studio.(If the only thing you want is performance).
Try using a physical device instead of a virtual machine.
Try using a lighter operating system (like lubuntu 18.04). Windows on my computer takes 1 gb when idle while lubuntu takes 1.2 gb when android studio is running
If none of the above work you should consider upgrading your computer.
I personally use a core 2 duo E8400(2 cores,2.83 ghz) with Lubuntu 18.04 and 2 gb ram and android studio 2.3.2 (my computer is so old that is why :)) and it runs flawlessly but you have a core i3 and 4 gb ram which can run higher versions.
NOTE: If you are using Kotlin DO NOT use android studio 2! it does not have support for Kotlin if you use java or c++ go ahead (although you may give up some features.).
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This question has been asked before but I cannot seem to find either YES or NO.
I am fairly a noob when it comes to app development and I can only work with Pascal, and Delphi 2010 is the only IDE my laptop can run without trouble. I have a Compaq CQ58 notebook pc, wth a Intel(R) celeron(R) 1000M # 1.8 GHz processor 64 bit os and 2 GB RAM.
It is a very low grade laptop, but is it still possible to develop android apps with it? I have Kotlin's IntelliJ IDEA Educational Edition 2021.2.1 insalled but it takes up too much RAM with the Gradle plugin running.
To sum it all up, can an Android app be developed Without an IDE and if so, HOW?
Without an IDE? Yes. You can use command line gradle commands to compile, and any text editor to write the files- vi or notepad would work. With that low a grade laptop? Gradle is memory hungry. I wouldn't want to compile a non-trivial app on less than 16 GB, and I prefer 32 or 64. The speed of your processor is actually less important than being able to hold enough data in memory for gradle to run.
I don't know where you are in the world, but you can get a cheap PC for only a few hundred dollars. If you can possibly afford it, its well worth the investment. Even if you could build on your laptop, builds would take hours as things paged. 2GB has been the minimum settings for most OS for a decade, and it didn't run well in that. You can get a 16 GB machine, which I would consider the minimum, for $500 or less. You don't need a good video card or the fastest processor, but you do need sufficient ram.
My laptop is a bit old...only 1.8GB RAM....Android installs good but when I load a project it freezes with the gradle stuff.
I tried android studion on Windows XP, Ubuntu, tiny core, puppy and now lastly BBQLinux. Each of them have same issue freezing at the gradle stuff...except windows xp which says something like '%1 is not a windows application'!
My question is that can I use swap as RAM, how to enable swap in BBQLinux? Will it make a difference? or is there another alternative?
I don't want to upgrade laptop as I just want to build a simple app for my phone.
Thanks.
Android studio takes more memory as well as internet because Android studio is capable of handling all the dependencies automatically (using gradle just like maven in java EE). All tools that does debugging on the real time occupied memory and process cycles. Also the emulator UI quality improved in Android Studio emulator in comparison to Eclipse. So threads and processes takes up huge amount of memory space.
If you still want to lessen the memory issue follow this link hope that will help you
I have switched to ubuntu 14.04 from windows7 and now my android studio is hanging too much and my system configuration is as follow :
Ram : 6 GB
Processor : Dual core
Main problem is while debugging the application and for that i am using device not an emulator and i have also seen that my sdk size is 60 GB on ubuntu but on window it was about 15-18 Gb and I don't understand why it is taking this much space?
So if someone has idea why this problem is coming,
Please Help me with it.
Thanks in advance
The hanging problem can be a result of lot of different things:
-It might be because your Android Studio is using too much of RAM.
You can check this by following command:
$top -o %MEM
this would result in such an output:
the output of top command
the "Java" there in the first line, in the linked image is the Android Studio and in my case its using 47.5% of RAM.
As I have low RAM, the OS starts using SWAP memory which would make the application respond slower. Usage of swap memory can checked by using command
$vmstat 1
So, there is no way you can bring that down. You can only close other applications so as to provide the required RAM.
I have 2Gigs of RAM and therefore I login into OpenBox and then start Android Studio, this works for me quite well
While the size of SDK must not be a problem.
The size of SDK depends upon the tools and the API related SDKs that you have downloaded.
You can open up your SDK manager and delete some packages if you want but that wont make Android Studio run faster.
-The other reason can be the iBus-daemon and that is a known issue. The workarounds can be found here
http://tools.android.com/knownissues/ibus
I have limited disk space and want to start developing android, but it seems that android studio eats a lot of memory! some says it took more than 20 GB.
So the question is: what are the minimum necessary components (android platforms, emulator, ...) to start and how can we use android studio with the most possible minimality?
Also, how does adding each of these components (that are respectively unnecessary) affects the used space?
2G RAM for AS, 1G RAM for Gradle,
~8G HDD for SDK (incl. NDK),
700M HDD for AS,
~2GB HDD for AS config and caches,
~500M HDD for one project + whatever emulators take
As Eugen Pechanec said as a comment.
I think this is the maximum.
Update
Note the link for updated requirements. Those listed here are minimal recommendations by Google. More RAM and Disk space have always been better in my experience.
Requirements as of Nov, 2015
Just check out the Android Studio system requirements. You will probably need 4GB RAM and 2GB of disk space to run the Android Studio platform minimally (this is Google's official development platform for Android devices). You can start by downloading the IDE at the developer website and also pickup some samples. So the samples will also take up disk space. Depending on how many versions of Android you intend to support you could be using a lot of disk space for the SDKs and emulators, so you should consider carefully which versions make sense to support.
You might also want to take a spin through the default training site.
Hello friend its true that android studio take lots of space while running, and emulator takes lots of memory so better way to run the program is on Android device, Go to the settings --> Developer options --> USB debugging (ON) if your phone didn't show developer options then Go to --> About device --> and click 7 to 8 times on Build number, it enable your Developer option
Install just one android version, then you should be fine...
If you have a native android device, you don't need an emulator you can use the android device to debug. You can debug over USB or WLAN.
Or you could use android x86 on an other machine(Virtual Machine).
If you have a i5 and at least 4gigs of Ram, you should be really fine.
In case of disk space, it depends, I use only the newer SDKs and it takes only about 700mb disk space.
If you really need all SDK versions, sure it will be more, but I do not think you will need 20 GB even if you add some more versions.
Android Studio 1.3 latest stable update is very slow compared to its previous version 1.2.2.
I have updated Android Studio from 1.2.2 to 1.3 and it just gone slow.
It actually scans or compile or something like that all the time while typing. Its good but scanning too much makes it slow while typing.
Even it hangs for a second or two while I type something in comment.
So I want to know whether I can do something to improve performance.
I can't downgrade :-(
My previous version was working better. Also latest version (1.3) takes lot of time for Gradle Build.
What should I do ?
I would say to work without problems with Android Studio you need a Quadcore, 8 GB Ram 1600MHZ at least and at least a Samsung 850 Pro SSD.
I have solved my problem by just increasing RAM from 4GB to 6GB. Actually I was also using Genymotion which consumes almost 1GB ram and makes my PC slow. So now I have also updated Android studio to version 1.4 and updated RAM to 6GB.
Now everything working perfect and fast Android studio as well as genymotion.
So according to me it was only a RAM shortage.