Android Studio is very slow

Google AI Studio
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Good afternoon, since yesterday the Android Studio AI has been experiencing slowness, making it impossible to create new projects.

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Can you explain more about it?

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Severe Intermittent Latency and Freezing in Android Studio Gemini Assistant

Hi everyone,

I’ve been experiencing severe intermittent latency with the built-in Gemini assistant in Android Studio (version 2026.1.1 Patch 2) over the past two days, and I need some guidance.

The issue behaves like a bottleneck: sometimes it responds quickly, but most of the time it gets stuck in an infinite “Thinking…” loop. Occasionally, it dumps the whole generated code at once after a long delay, or completely freezes the IDE UI, throwing “Multiple internal errors in the file system cache” and WInputMethod NullPointerExceptions.

To rule out common causes, I have already verified and performed the following:

  1. Hardware is absolutely not the bottleneck: Running an Intel Core i7 14th Gen, 32GB RAM, and an RTX 5060Ti (16GB VRAM).

  2. Clean Context: The slowness persists even when opening a brand-new chat session from scratch.

  3. Cache Purged: I’ve already fully invalidated Android Studio caches (File > Invalidate Caches) and wiped the local AppData/Google system/log folders.

  4. Antivirus Exclusions: Both the Android Studio system directories and my project directory are whitelisted in Windows Defender.

  5. .aiexclude Configured: Heavy binary/build directories are completely ignored.

This happens both when using my own Google AI Studio API Key and when switched to the default “Limited” native tier. Since my local environment is completely clean and my hardware is high-end, this looks like a severe backend API routing congestion or global server-side stability crisis on the Gemini infrastructure affecting IDE plugins.

Is anyone else facing this global stability issue since yesterday? Any official fixes coming up?

Thanks!