Android Studio is very laggy.

[Debian_SuperUser]

So I was thinking about using android studio for android gaming on Linux. So I installed it with the default settings, and it is very laggy. It is continuously doing drive I/O, and not taking much of CPU. Also for some reason, my memory usage is like at 50%, but I am also swapping. I disabled the swap, and everything was much more suttury, and the drive I/O didn't decrease. I might be under spec. They recommend 16 gigs of RAM, while I have 8. I also have a SATA SSD and so drive I/O is kinda slow. Bluestacks on Windows runs much better (although I was using it on another machine with an NVMe SSD). And I don't know that if it is using hardware accelerated virtualization.

 

[Vimmer]

Those android emulators always seem to have problems running at full functionality. I've never tried them, but i've noticed Oracle VMs do not work quite as well as an installed OS does, i would think gaming would be much worse.

Does the software actually work though? When is it laggy, when isn't it?

 

[APTI]

to the best of my knowledge android studio is a development environment. It is also a hated by most of the community regardless of platform. It is known for being laggy and usually not working well at all. It is known to be difficult in every way. If you are just trying to play android games you do not need the development environment at all. You just need an emulator. take a look at this link it will help you decide

10 Best Android Emulators for Linux System

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