diff --git a/android/build.gradle b/android/build.gradle
index 7c372f0..f2a9466 100644
--- a/android/build.gradle
+++ b/android/build.gradle
@@ -1,12 +1,4 @@
-// android/build.gradle
-
-// based on:
-//
-// * https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/0.60-stable/template/android/build.gradle
-
 def DEFAULT_COMPILE_SDK_VERSION = 29
-def DEFAULT_BUILD_TOOLS_VERSION = '29.0.3'
-def DEFAULT_MIN_SDK_VERSION = 16
 def DEFAULT_TARGET_SDK_VERSION = 29
 
 def safeExtGet(prop, fallback) {
@@ -14,127 +6,23 @@ def safeExtGet(prop, fallback) {
 }
 
 apply plugin: 'com.android.library'
-apply plugin: 'maven-publish'
 
-buildscript {
-    // The Android Gradle plugin is only required when opening the android folder stand-alone.
-    // This avoids unnecessary downloads and potential conflicts when the library is included as a
-    // module dependency in an application project.
-    // ref: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/tutorial_using_tasks.html#sec:build_script_external_dependencies
-    if (project == rootProject) {
-        repositories {
-            google()
-            mavenCentral()
-        }
-        dependencies {
-            classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.1.0'
-        }
-    }
-}
 
 android {
     compileSdkVersion safeExtGet('compileSdkVersion', DEFAULT_COMPILE_SDK_VERSION)
-    buildToolsVersion safeExtGet('buildToolsVersion', DEFAULT_BUILD_TOOLS_VERSION)
+
     defaultConfig {
-        minSdkVersion safeExtGet('minSdkVersion', DEFAULT_MIN_SDK_VERSION)
+        minSdkVersion safeExtGet('minSdkVersion', 16)
         targetSdkVersion safeExtGet('targetSdkVersion', DEFAULT_TARGET_SDK_VERSION)
         versionCode 1
         versionName "1.0"
     }
-    lintOptions {
-        abortOnError false
-    }
 }
 
-repositories {
-    // ref: https://www.baeldung.com/maven-local-repository
-    mavenLocal()
+repositories{
     mavenCentral()
-    maven {
-        // All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
-        url "$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android"
-    }
-    maven {
-        // Android JSC is installed from npm
-        url "$rootDir/../node_modules/jsc-android/dist"
-    }
-    google()
 }
 
 dependencies {
-    //noinspection GradleDynamicVersion
-    implementation 'com.facebook.react:react-native:+'  // From node_modules
-}
-
-def configureReactNativePom(def pom) {
-    def packageJson = new groovy.json.JsonSlurper().parseText(file('../package.json').text)
-
-    pom.project {
-        name packageJson.title
-        artifactId packageJson.name
-        version = packageJson.version
-        group = "com.reactlibrary.compassheading"
-        description packageJson.description
-        url packageJson.repository.baseUrl
-
-        licenses {
-            license {
-                name packageJson.license
-                url packageJson.repository.baseUrl + '/blob/master/' + packageJson.licenseFilename
-                distribution 'repo'
-            }
-        }
-
-        developers {
-            developer {
-                id packageJson.author.username
-                name packageJson.author.name
-            }
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-afterEvaluate { project ->
-    // some Gradle build hooks ref:
-    // https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/gradle-beyond-the/9781449373801/ch03.html
-    task androidJavadoc(type: Javadoc) {
-        source = android.sourceSets.main.java.srcDirs
-        classpath += files(android.bootClasspath)
-        classpath += files(project.getConfigurations().getByName('compile').asList())
-        include '**/*.java'
-    }
-
-    task androidJavadocJar(type: Jar, dependsOn: androidJavadoc) {
-        classifier = 'javadoc'
-        from androidJavadoc.destinationDir
-    }
-
-    task androidSourcesJar(type: Jar) {
-        classifier = 'sources'
-        from android.sourceSets.main.java.srcDirs
-        include '**/*.java'
-    }
-
-    android.libraryVariants.all { variant ->
-        def name = variant.name.capitalize()
-        def javaCompileTask = variant.javaCompileProvider.get()
-
-        task "jar${name}"(type: Jar, dependsOn: javaCompileTask) {
-            from javaCompileTask.destinationDir
-        }
-    }
-
-    artifacts {
-        archives androidSourcesJar
-        archives androidJavadocJar
-    }
-
-//    task installArchives(type: Upload) {
-//        configuration = configurations.archives
-//        repositories.maven {
-//            // Deploy to react-native-event-bridge/maven, ready to publish to npm
-//            repository url: "file://${projectDir}/../android/maven"
-//            configureReactNativePom pom
-//        }
-//    }
-}
+    implementation "com.facebook.react:react-native:${safeExtGet('reactNativeVersion', '+')}"
+}
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