Android Studio is Slow: How to Make Android Studio Fast

Android Studio is Slow: How to Make Android Studio Fast?


Android Studio is one of the powerful IDE for android application development. It is based on IntelliJ IDEA. Android Studio have lots of features like flexible gradle-based build system, rich layout editor with support for drag and drop design, direct sharing project to GitHub, build various and multiple apk file generator and lot more. Android Studio project files are managed systematically. But one of the big problems for android developers is, it sometime runs slowly.

In this article I am going to show how to make your android studio run faster and faster. There are lots of ways to make android studio fast but here I have explained some important among them.

How to Speed Up Android Studio?
Just follow some tips to speed up your android studio.

In android studio, you can enable offline work to make android studio run faster. To enable offline in android studio, just follow following steps:

Step 1: Open your Android Studio, Go to file >> settings or simply press ctrl + alt + s, new window appears there which looks like this.

Step 2: From side menu, click Gradle and check Offline work under Global Gradle setting and hit OK button, file >> settings >> Gradle.


Step 3: Again, Go to file >> setting and click Compiler from side menu and then type --offline in the command-line options box and hit OK button like this:
Note: After Completing these all ways you should restart your Android Studio.

After opening android studio, open gradle.properties file from right side of android studio and add the following two lines.
org.gradle.daemon=true
org.gradle.parallel=true

Look at this screenshot to add these two lines in gradle.properties file:

Note: After Completing these all ways, you should restart your Android Studio.



We all know that we should always test our application on a real device before releasing any application. If you use real device instead of android emulator any time (running, debugging, and testing your applications) if possible, that helps you to run your project fast and Android Studio too.

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