It's weird. When working with a Compose app, Android Studio 4.2 Canary 5 exhausts almost all the available physical RAM (8GB) on my (Linux) machine and then it quits after a phase of hanging. Attaching a screenshot.
I am also using linux and i did not noticed a difference to AS 4.0. For me ram usage is around 3-4 GB. You should upgrade you computer to 16 GB Ram.
Especially when you also using emulators which also take an additional 4 GB Ram
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Mehdi Haghgoo
07/23/2020, 2:06 PM
Right @Timo Drick 8 gb computers don't work well for Android or iOS development anymore.
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Timo Drick
07/23/2020, 2:11 PM
I think for Compose it is a little bit more than normal because you do have different compiler and kotlin versions for gradle and for Android Studio itself.