diff --git a/packages/react-native/android/README.md b/packages/react-native/android/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 613d9a3f283..00000000000
--- a/packages/react-native/android/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-# The `/android` folder inside `react-native`
-
-Starting from React Native 0.71, we're not shipping the `/android` folder inside the React Native NPM package
-anymore due to sizing constraints on NPM. The Android artifacts are distributed via Maven Central.
-You can read more about it in this RFC:
-https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals/pull/508
-
-If you're a library author and you're manipulating the React Native .aar files, to extract headers,
-extract `.so` files or do anything with it, you're probably doing something wrong. React Native
-0.71 ships with all the necessary logic to let you consume it transparently by just using:
-
-```
-implementation("com.facebook.react:react-android")
-// or to keep backward compatibility with older versions of React Native:
-implementation("com.facebook.react:react-native:+")
-```
-
-You should consider refactoring your library code not to unzip/manipulate the React Native .aar files.
-
-This README.md file is kept in this folder as some libraries are checking the existence of the `/android` folder
-and failing user builds if the folder is missing.
diff --git a/packages/react-native/package.json b/packages/react-native/package.json
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--- a/packages/react-native/package.json
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@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
     "outputName": "js-test-results.xml"
   },
   "files": [
-    "android",
     "build.gradle.kts",
     "cli.js",
     "flow",