Android studio

Question

I'm trying to make an application with flutter and android studio as the emulator. However, I have a problem when I display the emulator where every time I run my memory is used quite large around 500 MB - 1.5 GB. Is this happening because I'm using Local Disk C or is this normal?

Answer 1

This will depend on the emulated device you have built, but this is not out of the normal range of memory allocation for an android emulator. A portion of your ram will be used to emulate the device and it running programs. A portion of the aforementioned portion is the ram sized for that device. You can adjust this in the devices emulator settings. If you computer doesn't have much ram, you may need to close other applications you have running. Like most other Jetbrains IDE's, Android Studio uses a significant amount of memory itself. I would suggest having no less than 8GB of ram for your PC that you are using with Android Studio, and recommend at least 16GB if possible. If you have an actual android phone or tablet etc that you can use to test with, that is preferred, as not too many resources will be needed. Also, it is typically best to test with only 1 emulator running at a time whenever possible.