diff --git a/ReactAndroid/build.gradle b/ReactAndroid/build.gradle
index 816cb30135bfb2..f50c4e2137166f 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/build.gradle
+++ b/ReactAndroid/build.gradle
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 plugins {
     id("com.android.library")
     id("com.facebook.react.codegen")
-    id("maven")
+    id("maven-publish")
     id("de.undercouch.download")
 }
 
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import de.undercouch.gradle.tasks.download.Download
 import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.condition.Os
 import org.apache.tools.ant.filters.ReplaceTokens
 
+def AAR_OUTPUT_URL = "file://${projectDir}/../android"
 // We download various C++ open-source dependencies into downloads.
 // We then copy both the downloaded code and our custom makefiles and headers into third-party-ndk.
 // After that we build native code from src/main/jni with module path pointing at third-party-ndk.
@@ -425,6 +426,10 @@ task extractJNIFiles {
     }
 }
 
+task installArchives {
+    dependsOn("publishReleasePublicationToNpmRepository")
+}
+
 android {
     compileSdkVersion 30
     ndkVersion ANDROID_NDK_VERSION
@@ -516,8 +521,6 @@ dependencies {
     androidTestImplementation("org.mockito:mockito-core:${MOCKITO_CORE_VERSION}")
 }
 
-apply(from: "release.gradle")
-
 react {
     // TODO: The library name is chosen for parity with Fabric components & iOS
     // This should be changed to a more generic name, e.g. `ReactCoreSpec`.
@@ -526,3 +529,53 @@ react {
     reactNativeRootDir = file("$projectDir/..")
     useJavaGenerator = System.getenv("USE_CODEGEN_JAVAPOET") ?: false
 }
+
+afterEvaluate {
+    publishing {
+        publications {
+            release(MavenPublication) {
+                // Applies the component for the release build variant.
+                from components.release
+
+                // You can then customize attributes of the publication as shown below.
+                artifactId = POM_ARTIFACT_ID
+                groupId = GROUP
+                version = VERSION_NAME
+
+                pom {
+                    name = POM_NAME
+                    description = "A framework for building native apps with React"
+                    url = "https://github.com/facebook/react-native"
+
+                    developers {
+                        developer {
+                            id = "facebook"
+                            name = "Facebook"
+                        }
+                    }
+
+                    licenses {
+                        license {
+                            name = "MIT License"
+                            url = "https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/LICENSE"
+                            distribution = "repo"
+                        }
+                    }
+
+                    scm {
+                        url = "https://github.com/facebook/react-native.git"
+                        connection = "scm:git:https://github.com/facebook/react-native.git"
+                        developerConnection = "scm:git:git@github.com:facebook/react-native.git"
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        repositories {
+            maven {
+                name = "npm"
+                url = AAR_OUTPUT_URL
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/ReactAndroid/release.gradle b/ReactAndroid/release.gradle
deleted file mode 100644
index 9ddc7cfc78be21..00000000000000
--- a/ReactAndroid/release.gradle
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,87 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
- *
- * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
- * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
- */
-
-apply(plugin: "maven")
-apply(plugin: "signing")
-
-ext {
-    AAR_OUTPUT_URL = "file://${projectDir}/../android"
-}
-
-// Gradle tasks for publishing to maven
-// 1) To install in local maven repo use :installArchives task
-// 2) To upload artifact to maven central use: :uploadArchives (you'd need to have the permission to do that)
-
-def isReleaseBuild() {
-    return VERSION_NAME.contains("SNAPSHOT") == false
-}
-
-def configureReactNativePom(def pom) {
-    pom.project {
-        name(POM_NAME)
-        artifactId(POM_ARTIFACT_ID)
-        packaging(POM_PACKAGING)
-        description("A framework for building native apps with React")
-        url("https://github.com/facebook/react-native")
-
-        scm {
-            url("https://github.com/facebook/react-native.git")
-            connection("scm:git:https://github.com/facebook/react-native.git")
-            developerConnection("scm:git:git@github.com:facebook/react-native.git")
-        }
-
-        licenses {
-            license {
-                name("MIT License")
-                url("https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/LICENSE")
-                distribution("repo")
-            }
-        }
-
-        developers {
-            developer {
-                id("facebook")
-                name("Facebook")
-            }
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-if (JavaVersion.current().isJava8Compatible()) {
-    allprojects {
-        tasks.withType(Javadoc) {
-            options.addStringOption("Xdoclint:none", "-quiet")
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-afterEvaluate { project ->
-    android.libraryVariants.all { variant ->
-        def name = variant.name.capitalize()
-        task "jar${name}"(type: Jar, dependsOn: variant.javaCompileProvider.get()) {
-            from(variant.javaCompileProvider.get().destinationDir)
-        }
-    }
-
-    version = VERSION_NAME
-    group = GROUP
-
-    signing {
-        required { isReleaseBuild() && gradle.taskGraph.hasTask("uploadArchives") }
-        sign(configurations.archives)
-    }
-
-    task installArchives(type: Upload) {
-        configuration = configurations.archives
-        repositories.mavenDeployer {
-            // Deploy to react-native/android, ready to publish to npm
-            repository(url: AAR_OUTPUT_URL)
-
-            configureReactNativePom(pom)
-        }
-    }
-}