>The big problem isn't so much the emulator, it's the IntelliJ-based IDE combined with the java compilers that gobble up RAM worse than Chrome. Each compilation

>The big problem isn't so much the emulator, it's the IntelliJ-based IDE combined with the java compilers that gobble up RAM worse than Chrome. Each compilation process can quickly grow to 2GB and release it soon after, torturing your OS's memory manager. Android Studio isn't necessarily that bad. On a very large project, my AS instance eats up, at the absolute worst, 4GB of RAM. Which, compared to all other IDEs is not that awful. Gradle however will eat memory and balloon to 8GB on its daemon >The biggest problem I have with Android development is that compiling even a small app takes over a minute in my 7700k. Make sure incremental compilation is setup. For small changes, this means that recompiling is lower than 10 seconds.