# Ultimate Guide To Speed Up Android Studio
[Jake Wharton](https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/7sxhig/android_studio_slower_when_using_kotlin/dt88pgn/), [Medium](https://android.jlelse.eu/how-i-reduced-my-android-build-times-by-89-4242e51ce946)
Go to `Preferences` > `Plugins` > and disable everything you don't need.
Tested with these disabled "Android APK Support", "Android Games", "Android NDK", "App Links Assistant", "CVS", "Firebase <product>" (all of them), "GitHub", "Google <product>" (all of them), "Mercurial Integration", "Settings repository", "Statistic", "Subversion integration", "Task management", "Test recorder", "TestNG", and "YAML". Goes real fast now.