Issue with Shopify Minis Dev Mode Consuming Storage and Resetting Emulator Data

[trungson01]

Hello Shopify Support Team,

I’m currently developing a Shopify Minis application on my local machine and have been encountering a recurring issue that significantly slows down my development workflow.

When I run npm start and press “a” to apply changes in dev mode, the app reload process quickly consumes storage on the Android emulator (via Android Studio). After a short time, the emulator runs out of space, which forces me to perform a full “Wipe Data” in Android Studio to continue.

However, this creates two major inconveniences:

• I lose all existing app data and configurations in the emulator.

• Each time I wipe data, I have to wait for the emulator to fully reset and reinstall everything, which takes a considerable amount of time.

I would like to ask:

1. Is there a way to run Shopify Minis in development mode without repeatedly consuming large amounts of emulator storage?

2. Is there a recommended workflow to apply code changes without triggering heavy data reloads each time?

3. Is there a way to clear unnecessary data/cache without performing a full “Wipe Data”, so I can preserve my emulator setup.

** If this behavior is considered a normal workflow when developing Shopify Minis, please let me know—I’m happy to accept it .
Thanks

[tewson-shopify]

Hi,

Thank you for reporting the issue. Can you share more the following information:

• How much storage the app takes up in the emulator
• How much storage is provisioned for the emulator

I’ve attached example screenshots here.

[trungson01]

Thanks for your reply, I dev shopify minis and run in emulator not real device it take me about 1gb every run start and after that if the junk/cache data become around 10gb then to continue dev i must wipe data in android studio many times and i don’t know the other way. Even when i just rerun it without any changes, it still takes around 300mb more storage on my computer.