Ionic Android Build failed : Unable to start the daemon process

Question

when i'm running ionic build android --release i get an error

Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for 2097152KB object heap

Does anyone know the fix ?

Answer 1

I got the solution by adding a new system variable name : _JAVA_OPTIONS and value : -Xmx512M

Answer 2

After changing the setting in the environment you should restart your Command Prompt CMD to update environment variables