

I disabled the following plugins in my IDE:Īfter that, click Apply and restart your Android Studio.īut wait. So, if you disable all the plugins that you don't use (I know you are not using all these plugins to develop your app), I guarantee that Android Studio will speed up for sure. You will see IDE gets slower when adding plugins. However, in you laptop, you will see so many enabled plugins and these are also the things which slows down your IDE. Īs I disabled the plugins that I don't need, you won't see so many enabled plugins in my laptop. It will reduce lots of background work in Android Studio.Īfter that, click File > Setting > Plugins. I'll telling another way to speed up Android Studio in your Windows Laptop. However, if you are too attached to Windows, it's ok. Then, 4GB RAM will be sufficient to run smoothly without any lags. Run Android apps with your android device instead of emulator. According to my experience, starting Android Studio and running an project in Debian is much faster than in Windows. So, another tip is to dual boot your laptop with a Linux distro or just remove Windows completely and use Linux instead :PĬurrently I use Debian OS with Windows dual boot and my laptop RAM is 8GB. As I've said above, Windows OS usually takes 2GB as there are many background processes and system process running in Windows that you can't stop. So, I recommend you to use your android device instead of emulator to test the apps.Īnother way to speed up android studio is to run it in different OS rather than Windows. Running with a physical device will reduce both your anger and loading time of the android project. If your laptop has only 4GB RAM, don't run your project with emulator or it will end up in a complete disaster! It took about 15 minutes to build gradle and opening the emulator will take about another 15 minutes.

When I learned android development for the first time, my laptop had only 4GB RAM and I went through so much trouble to run an android app. There are several ways to speed up your Android Studio. (Just kidding.xD I'll be more serious after this). The best way is to upgrade your RAM to 8GB as recommended in official website. So, How can we speed up our Android Studio in a laptop with 4GB RAM? So basically, when you try to run Android Studio in Windows with emulator, it's gonna be a very huge pain in the ass. However Windows usually takes 2GB and Android Studio will alone take up to 1GB and if you run with emulator, it will consume about 1.5GB - 2 GB.

Although Android Studio is a powerful IDE, there are many memes about long building time, slow speed, taking huge amount RAM etc.Īccording to, minimum requirement for android studio is:
