Minimum hardware requirement for android studio?

As of November 2020, the official system requirements say:

4 GB RAM minimum, 8 GB RAM recommended

IMHO, Android Studio will use as much RAM as it can, and your RAM requirements will depend on the size of your project(s) that you are working on. For example, I recently moved from a machine with 16GB RAM to 32GB, owing to Android Studio's memory usage.


I have a laptop with this configuration:

  • Core i5
  • 4GB RAM DDR3
  • HHD 5400RPM speed

And it's very slow.

When I upgrade my system with 8GB RAM and change my HDD with SSD, my speed is much improved.

So, I recommend that, you must at least have 8GB of RAM and Core i5 or Core i7 CPU, with a SSD. Don't use HDD.

UPDATE 27/AGU/2017

minimum requirement :

  • SSD
  • 8 GB of RAM
  • Core i5

best :

  • SSD
  • 16 GB of RAM
  • Core i7

UPDATE 31/JUL/2020

minimum requirement :

  • 256 SSD
  • 12 GB DDR3
  • Core i5

best :

  • 512 SSD
  • 24 GB DDR4
  • Core i7

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