At Akharin Khabar, the Android news application grew beyond two million users. The engineering challenge was improving reliability and delivery speed while continuing to ship useful features.
Why technical debt affected delivery
As the product grew, older networking, UI, and feature boundaries made changes harder to review. Refactoring reduced roughly 60% of technical debt and made future work more predictable.
What helped the team scale
- Measure startup, API latency, crashes, and loading states on real devices.
- Separate feature state, networking, and presentation responsibilities.
- Keep the most important user journeys easy to test.
- Use Jira and CI/CD to keep work visible and releases repeatable.
- Roll out changes incrementally instead of combining unrelated refactors.
A practical release workflow
Start with one user journey and define the expected behavior. Measure the current result, make the smallest change that addresses the problem, and validate it in a release-like build.
After release, monitor the main signals and keep the change only when it improves the product.
Scaling an Android news application is continuous engineering work. Clear boundaries, measurable performance improvements, and disciplined delivery help a team improve a large product without freezing feature development.
At Akharin Khabar we grew a news application past two million users.
Refactoring cut roughly 60% of technical debt. Agile work with Jira and CI/CD kept the team aligned while we optimized APIs and load times.
