kdbhalala/avdslim

⚡ Drop Android Virtual Device (AVD) emulator RAM from ~8GB to ~1.5GB on Apple Silicon & Linux. Inspired by simslim.

Developer toolsGo

3.8 Early signal Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

About the project

A Go CLI tool that cuts Android Virtual Device (AVD) emulator RAM usage from ~8 GB to ~1.5 GB on Apple Silicon and Linux via -lowram flags, host GPU acceleration, and disabling background services.

Useful for

Launch an Android emulator with reduced memory usage while developing on a laptop
Disable Google background services in an AVD to speed up app builds and testing
Restore stock emulator settings with the restore command after debugging

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

12 stars so far today, about 15 expected by the end of the day.
The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
The repository is 2 days old and already has 121 stars.
Top new repositories this week: #96.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 121
Stars in a day: 15
Forks: 7
Issues and pull requests: 0
Watchers: 0
Language: Go
License: MIT
Latest release: v1.0.11 · September 18, 2026
Created: September 16, 2026
Last push: September 18, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 18, 2026Top new repositories this week: #79
September 17, 2026Top new repositories this week: #115

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