Why Android Studio is slowing down when editing xml file or changing the design?

Question

I have a Hp envy notebook with Intel i7 and 8gb ram and 2gb graphics, still sometimes android studio stucks when I am working with xml or design the app. Is there any problem w

Answer 1

You can try increasing heap memory to see if it could help by following the instruction here. http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/configuration

Content from the link below

As of Android Studio 2.0, you can create/edit this file by accessing the "Edit Custom VM Options" file from the Help menu.

Increasing IDE Memory By default, the IDE is assigned a maximum of 750 MB. If you have a large project, or if you have a lot of RAM on your system, the IDE will run better if you increase the amount of memory it is allowed to use. To do that, create your own studio.vmoptions override (in the location explained above) and add a line like this

-Xmx2048m