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.

4 GB Recommended (500 MB for IDE + 1.5 GB for Android SDK and emulator system image).

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:

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