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- Galaxy S9+ (2018): 6GB - Galaxy S10 (2019): 6 or 8 GB - Galaxy S10+ (2019): 8 or 12 GB - Galaxy S20 (2020): 8 or 12 GB - Galaxy S20 Ultra (2020): 12 o

- Galaxy S9+ (2018): 6GB - Galaxy S10 (2019): 6 or 8 GB - Galaxy S10+ (2019): 8 or 12 GB - Galaxy S20 (2020): 8 or 12 GB - Galaxy S20 Ultra (2020): 12 or 16 GB - OnePlus 3 (2016): 6 GB - OnePlus 8 (2020): 8 or 12 GB - LG G7 ThinQ (2018): 4 or 6 GB - LG Velvet (2020): 8GB - Pixel 4 (2019): 6GB - Xiaomi Pocophone F1 (2018): 6 or 8GB - Huawei Mate 20 (2018): 4 or 6 or 8GB - Sony Xperia 1 (2019): 6GB - Moto Razr (2020): 6GB Pretty much every Android phone maker is producing phones with at least 6GB of memory now. The flagships are heading toward 12 and 16GB now. OnePlus had more than 4GB almost 4 years ago. Only Apple, who has the benefit optimizing its OS for a small set of hardware, seems to still be running on 4GB or less on all of its phones You're trying to emulate an entire OS here. Android 10 requires a minimum of 2GB of RAM just on its own now. You have overhead for the emulation software itself on top of that, in addition to the memory needed by your computer's OS, your IDE, your browser, etc. Android Studio alone requires a minimum of 1GB and, at least in my experience, it will use that within 5 minutes of opening up. Not to mention, even budget phones today are at least twice as fast as the CPU you're running. You can't expect emulated software to run well on a computer that barely even meets the minimum requirements for that software. It's ludicrous.

qwerty456127 6y ago
> Pretty much every Android phone maker is producing phones with at least 6GB of memory now Ok. I can see no reason to care about such though. What the heck do they need that for? > You're trying to emulate an entire OS here. But I emulate desktop Linuxes and Windows without problems - that's entire OSes too. > Android 10 requires a minimum of 2GB of RAM just on its own now. Why? What does it need this much for? Anyway, I can reserve 2GB of RAM now and I'm sure I'm not going to notice too much drop in performance. > You can't expect emulated software to run well on a computer that barely even meets the minimum requirements for that software. It's ludicrous. As for the app - I'm sure it can't require anything near that much. As for the OS - why does Android have to require so much more than Linux and Windows do? BTW my actual phone (Galaxy Note 3) runs Android 9 on 3 GB RAM perfectly. I never tried 3D games but everything else is blazing fast. I've been updating it (Android 4-5-6-9) for years and never noticed a glitch.
- apocalyptic0n3 6y ago
  > Ok. I can see no reason to care about such though. What the heck do they need that for? > Why? What does it need this much for? As a developer, that shouldn't matter to you. Only that it _does_ require that much. You can assume that your users will have 4GB of memory in almost all cases now, whether you agree with it or not. Your opinion on the _why_ is irrelevant, frankly. If you can't provide that much to the emulator, you can't expect to run it smoothly. There is no magic solution to this. These things require resources that your computer does not have. If you want it to run better (or even at all), get better hardware. That's all there is to it.

qwerty456127 6y ago

> Pretty much every Android phone maker is producing phones with at least 6GB of memory now Ok. I can see no reason to care about such though. What the heck do they need that for? > You're trying to emulate an entire OS here. But I emulate desktop Linuxes and Windows without problems - that's entire OSes too. > Android 10 requires a minimum of 2GB of RAM just on its own now. Why? What does it need this much for? Anyway, I can reserve 2GB of RAM now and I'm sure I'm not going to notice too much drop in performance. > You can't expect emulated software to run well on a computer that barely even meets the minimum requirements for that software. It's ludicrous. As for the app - I'm sure it can't require anything near that much. As for the OS - why does Android have to require so much more than Linux and Windows do? BTW my actual phone (Galaxy Note 3) runs Android 9 on 3 GB RAM perfectly. I never tried 3D games but everything else is blazing fast. I've been updating it (Android 4-5-6-9) for years and never noticed a glitch.

apocalyptic0n3 6y ago
> Ok. I can see no reason to care about such though. What the heck do they need that for? > Why? What does it need this much for? As a developer, that shouldn't matter to you. Only that it _does_ require that much. You can assume that your users will have 4GB of memory in almost all cases now, whether you agree with it or not. Your opinion on the _why_ is irrelevant, frankly. If you can't provide that much to the emulator, you can't expect to run it smoothly. There is no magic solution to this. These things require resources that your computer does not have. If you want it to run better (or even at all), get better hardware. That's all there is to it.