How can I change the ram amount that the android emulator is using?

Question

at the first setup, Android Studio asked me that how much ram does the emulator going to use. I entered 800M but it worked slowly. I need to make it a little bit bigger like 1.5GB. How can I do that? Is it editable after the first setup?

Solution 1

My answer seems to be old, so for recent versions check this answer

Go to Tools->Android->AVD Manager, there's something like pencil to edit your AVD click on that, then in the pop-up window click Show Advanced Settings and there you can change the RAM size.

Solution 2

I generated a Pixel 2 image in the past and those values were locked to match the HW default of 1536 MB, so to edit them I had to "Show on disk" (from ADV manager) and edit the hw.ramSize keys in hardware-qemu.ini and config.ini

Solution 3

• Create a new virtual device from the AVD Manager.

• Select New hardware profile(left-bottom corner) in the appearing window.

• You can see an option Memory in the new secondly appeared window. Here you can change the ram size in the column RAM.

Solution 4

or you can create a new hardware profile, that allows you to choose the amount of ram avaliable. Also you can change the number of CPU cores in the hardware-quemu.ini and config.ini on the device files.

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Comments

[Frederic Klein]

Possible duplicate of Why emulator is very slow in Android Studio?

[Arda Çebi]

I was testing my app's on the virtual device instead of Note 5 that has samsung modified Android. It was running so slow. Thank you so much.

[Masked Man]

Happy Coding :)

[Arda Çebi]

The problem is already this. There is a minimum RAM setting in the emulator. I need to change this. Otherwise doing the thing you suggested with this answer is impossible. The first answer works.

[Cícero Moura]

That was what I was looking for! Thanks

[DYS]

As I check, the RAM size and vm size are disabled for modification.

[Praveen Singh]

Thanks for this solution.

[Fernando Torres]

That does'nt worked

[Fernando Torres]

Please note if you make a new profile you won't be able to choose a device with google play services

[Masked Man]

@FernandoTorres Updated the answer