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Fasting Up Android Studio

1. Disabling plugins .

This article says to disable the following plugins via settings/plugins:

  • Android APK Support
  • Android Games
  • Android NDK
  • App Links Assistant
  • Copyright
  • Coverage
  • CVS Integeration
  • Editor Config
  • Fabric for Android Studio
  • Firebase (App Indexing, Services, Testing)
  • Github
  • Google (Cloud Tools Core, Cloud Tools for Android, Developer Samples, - Login, Services)
  • Markdown Support
  • Mercurial integration
  • hg4idea
  • Settings repository
  • Subversion integration
  • Task management
  • Test recorder
  • TestNG-J
  • YAML

2. Adding exclusions to firewall

As Per dev site here, add these to the windows defender exclusions:

  • C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio
  • C:\Users\anshs.android
  • C:Wsers\anshA.AndroidStudio3.5
  • C:\Users\anshs.gradle
  • C:\Users\anshs\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk
  • P:\
  • java.exe
  • studio64.exe

3. custom VM Options

These are working for me as of october 2019: 

-Xms1024m
-Xmx4096m
-XX:MaxPermSize=1024m
-XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=256m
-XX:+UseCompressedOops