Using the Android SDK on a Mac, Eclipse is really slow. How can I speed it up?

Question

I'm using Eclipse + the Android SDK on a Mac running Snow Leopard to develop Android apps.

Thing is, Eclipse is really slow - like, it "beach balls" for a few seconds when changing tabs.

Is there anything I can do to improve it's performance?

Answer 1

The solution: change the Java version used and increase the allocated memory.

Edit eclipse.ini - this file is located Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse.ini.

Change the following vars to use Java 1.6 and allocate more memory:

-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion = 1.6 -Xms128m -Xmx1024m 

(Found originally here: http://www.codeweblog.com/eclipse-adt-mac-version-tab-to-switch-slow-solution/)

Answer 2

You can try some suggestions from this IBM developerWorks article

Search for the "Maximizing Eclipse performance on Mac OS X" section