How to speed up Android Studio on a Mac

Question

I am trying to develop some native Android apps using Android Studio (latest) on OS X Yosemite. Currently Android Studio is simply unusable: it is too slow. I am not referri

Answer 1

I did the following to resolve the Android Studio slowness.

Go to Android -> Preferences -> Build, Execution, Deployment -> Compiler

Check the Option -

Compile independent modules in parallel (may require larger heap size)

Set VM Options to :

-Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=512

Restart Android Studio.