diff --git a/android/app/build.gradle b/android/app/build.gradle
index 02247e61..cf88a7d5 100644
--- a/android/app/build.gradle
+++ b/android/app/build.gradle
@@ -251,6 +251,10 @@ android {
         }
     }
 
+    lintOptions {
+        checkReleaseBuilds false
+    }
+
     // applicationVariants are e.g. debug, release
     applicationVariants.all { variant ->
         variant.outputs.each { output ->
diff --git a/android/build.gradle b/android/build.gradle
index 4db49da6..a6d1359c 100644
--- a/android/build.gradle
+++ b/android/build.gradle
@@ -39,6 +39,15 @@ allprojects {
                 excludeGroup "com.facebook.react"
             }
         }
+        all { ArtifactRepository repo ->
+            if (repo instanceof MavenArtifactRepository) {
+                def url = repo.url.toString()
+                if (url.startsWith('https://jcenter.bintray.com/')) {
+                    project.logger.lifecycle "Repository ${repo.url} dropped"
+                    remove repo
+                }
+            }
+        }
         maven {
             // All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
             url("$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android")