diff --git a/android/build.gradle b/android/build.gradle
index 447ec0b1..0e1a06e8 100644
--- a/android/build.gradle
+++ b/android/build.gradle
@@ -75,12 +75,6 @@ android {
     versionCode 1
     versionName "1.0"
   }
-  buildTypes {
-    release {
-      minifyEnabled false
-      proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
-    }
-  }
   lintOptions {
     abortOnError false
   }
diff --git a/android/proguard-rules.pro b/android/proguard-rules.pro
deleted file mode 100644
index f1b42451..00000000
--- a/android/proguard-rules.pro
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-# Add project specific ProGuard rules here.
-# You can control the set of applied configuration files using the
-# proguardFiles setting in build.gradle.
-#
-# For more details, see
-#   http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/proguard.html
-
-# If your project uses WebView with JS, uncomment the following
-# and specify the fully qualified class name to the JavaScript interface
-# class:
-#-keepclassmembers class fqcn.of.javascript.interface.for.webview {
-#   public *;
-#}
-
-# Uncomment this to preserve the line number information for
-# debugging stack traces.
-#-keepattributes SourceFile,LineNumberTable
-
-# If you keep the line number information, uncomment this to
-# hide the original source file name.
-#-renamesourcefileattribute SourceFile