The latest articles on DEV Community by Krunal Bhalala (@kdbhalala). https://dev.to/kdbhalala https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4130291%2Fd6e7db02-a502-4aa4-95e4-4f0d5fdeadae.png https://dev.to/kdbhalala en Krunal Bhalala Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:19:30 +0000 https://dev.to/kdbhalala/my-android-emulator-was-eating-8-gb-of-ram-2gki https://dev.to/kdbhalala/my-android-emulator-was-eating-8-gb-of-ram-2gki <p>I was working on a mobile app and noticed my Android emulator was regularly eating 7–8 GB of RAM on my Mac.</p> <p>On a 16 GB machine, that gets painful pretty quickly.</p> <p>So I started experimenting with ADB and the emulator configuration to see what I could safely remove or disable.</p> <p>That turned into AVDSlim.</p> <p>The result on my setup:</p> <p>~8 GB RAM → ~1.5 GB</p> <p>Startup time also dropped to around 1.5 seconds.</p> <p>AVDSlim automates the tweaks instead of making you run a bunch of ADB commands manually. It also supports snapshots, benchmarking and headless/CI usage.</p> <p>I’ve tested Firebase Auth, Google Sign-In, FCM and Maps successfully, although I’m sure there are edge cases I haven’t found yet.</p> <p>It’s open source and MIT licensed.</p> <p>🔗 GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/kdbhalala/avdslim" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/kdbhalala/avdslim</a></p> <p>If you use Android emulators, I’d love to know:</p> <p>How much RAM does yours use?</p> mobile android emulator flutter