Speed up for Android Studio Startup and Emulator
Android Studio can be a little slow After a while using Android Studio gets painful at startup time waiting for the IDE user interface to load, then waiting for the Android Emulator. Found that with a few quick exclusions in antivirus speed is significantly improved. I'm sure there are a few who will disagree with these changes but the trade off between security and performance is well worth it in my case. Exclude the following items in Antivirus: C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio\plugins\android\lib C:\Users\<username>\.AndroidStudio2.2\system\caches C:\Users\<username>\.AndroidStudio2.2\system\index C:\Users\<username>\.gradle qmenu-system-i386.exe Please post a response how this works for you so that others may benefit.