can i run android studio on 4gb ram windows 10 ??

Question

Hi,
I want to learn Android App Development.
My Computer's System :
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Already I installed many Software in my pc.
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Can I install Android studio on my pc.
I see my many questions in this website.
But iam not clear about it !!
Thanks.

Answer 1

nope I have a 4gb ram lappy, I had to buy a 4gb ram just to run the emulator on Android studio without freezing my lappy.

But now with 8Gb my life is Awesome, I guess these days 8Gb is the new normal for desktop environment .

Also I tried disabling unused plugins and features in studio but emulator would still hang my machine.

Answer 2

There are lots of Google and StackExchange reports that this configuration will work, but it's going to be *slow*.

There appear to be YouTube tutorials for how to make this better; just search for "Android Studio" and 4GB.

Answer 3

I did read that (for 4GB'ers) it would take upwards of 10 minutes to spawn the emulator. Windows 10 also performs very badly on 5400-RPM disk drives; drive speed is far more likely a "cut corner" on budget systems so who knows if that was a major factor for them.

Note: Slow emulators* could be the (old, I hope) common error of not actually *installing* the HAXM virtualization software (for some !!reason!! Android Studio only 'installed the installer', which you had to manually find, then run!).

Then, the best low-memory-please-stop-swapping-so-I-can-work solution I know of is to run the emulator and Studio separately. Starting the emulator directly (from a command prompt, not through Studio) is not well-documented or very usable in my opinion.

* Assuming the SM/BIOS has virtualization (and it's enabled) in the first place...this feature is pretty important

Answer 4

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