How To Decrease Memory Usage For Android Studio (also Works For Eclipse)

After some months using Android Studio, i was very upset of how much memory it was using: 2GB for the IDE 1GB for Gradle build ~1GB for a running Java app How to decrease memory

Solution 1:

Now i tried one thing: i uninstalled all Java 64 bit and replaced by Java 32 Bit. Then i updated the JAVA_HOME to point to the new location and rebooted my Windows 10 notebook.

Android Studio already comes with the 32-bit flavor, but you need to download a specific 32-bit version of Eclipse.

Now i get this:

• ~1GB for the IDE
• 360MB for Gradle
• 120MB for a running Java app

I also downgraded FireFox to 32 bits, and now it takes half memory.

HTH,

guich