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Android Studio

DevPulse monitors Android Studio's JVM, Gradle daemons, and Android emulators. It groups all these processes and shows total memory consumed by your Android development environment.

JVM heapGradle daemonsEmulator tracking
4–16 GB
Typical RAM
8–25
Processes
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Monitored

Why DevPulse monitors Android Studio

Android Studio is one of the heaviest IDEs. Between the JVM-based IDE, Gradle build daemons, and Android emulators, a single project can consume 8–16 GB of RAM.

What DevPulse detects

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Process family groupingFree
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Total memory at a glanceFree
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Emulator detectionPro
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Gradle daemon trackingPro
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Zombie Gradle daemon detectionPro

Quick tips to reduce Android Studio RAM

1 Kill idle Gradle daemons: ./gradlew --stop

2 Close the Android emulator when not testing

3 Increase Android Studio's heap size in Help → Change Memory Settings

4 Use a physical device for testing instead of the emulator when possible

Monitor Android Studio with DevPulse

See exactly how much RAM Android Studio is consuming, grouped intelligently with all its child processes.

Download FreeRAM tips for Android Studio

Category

devtool

Availability

Free + Pro features

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