Hi all Is it just me or Compose or Kotlin plugin makes Andro

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Hi all Is it just me or Compose or Kotlin plugin makes Android Studio slow as hell It takes seconds in basically every possible task syntax highlighting show suggestions it s becoming quite frustrating

nilTheDev · Answer

It s certainly not my case I haven t noticed anything after I started using Jetpack compose Make sure you are having 16 GB of RAM and Android studio is allowed to use 4 GB of memory

Colton Idle · Answer

Yeah I ve noticed this Filed bugs reached out to jetbrains folks Seems like the difference maker is going to be the new frontend compiler which should be coming out in 2022 Once that is out then all of the IDE stuff should be faster

Colton Idle · Answer

My first bug about this was opened in 2018 where auto completing took seconds and sometimes would hang for 10+ seconds My machine in 2018 had 392GB of RAM I have a mac pro tower from work and so if my machine with 392GB of ram was slow then there was definitely going to be issues with peoples laptops that have 16GB

efemoney · Answer

What do you do for work sob 392GB of RAM is insane Have I been settling

Colton Idle · Answer

work on different facets of the same project so android studio with 1 or 2 emulators xcode some docker stuff etc plus everything seems to be chrome based now and it just eats gigabytes

Colton Idle · Answer

I did start using mightyapp recently and I ve been able to same a ton of ram from chrome its sad but right now it solves the problem

Kazem Moridi · Answer

I had the same problem but after I installed the same version of Kotlin IDE Plugin as the compose supported version it fixed the slowness of android studio

Michal Klimczak · Answer

if you have an m1 mac make sure you use the arm64 version of android studio the intel rosetta is painfully slow just like you described

ste · Answer

Idk I already allowed android studio to use 4gb of ram don t know what to do

ste · Answer

< Kazem Moridi> this is interesting my compose project uses 1 6 0 but i already updated kotlin plugin to 1 6 10

Colton Idle · Answer

Write up a bug report on youtrack against intellij They ll tell you how to get additional info to help them with this

ste · Answer

Yup that s what I ll do I just performed a clean install of AS no luck Very embarrassing

CLOVIS · Answer

Note that giving too much RAM to JVM programs can make them slower I originally increased the IDEA heap size to 4GB and it wasn t that fast It s much faster now that I reduced it to 2GB