diff --git a/android/build.gradle b/android/build.gradle
index 5e4d21dd29..22687f6d81 100644
--- a/android/build.gradle
+++ b/android/build.gradle
@@ -7,11 +7,13 @@ buildscript {
     dependencies {
         classpath('com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.2.2')
         classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.5.20"
+        classpath "com.diffplug.spotless:spotless-plugin-gradle:5.15.0"
     }
 }
 
-plugins {
-    id "com.diffplug.spotless" version "5.14.1"
+// spotless is only accessible within react-native-screens repo
+if (project == rootProject) {
+    apply from: 'spotless.gradle'
 }
 
 apply plugin: 'com.android.library'
@@ -58,15 +60,3 @@ dependencies {
     implementation "androidx.core:core-ktx:1.6.0"
     implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:1.5.20"
 }
-
-plugins.apply("com.diffplug.spotless")
-
-spotless {
-    kotlin {
-        target 'src/**/*.kt'
-        ktlint("0.40.0")
-        trimTrailingWhitespace()
-        indentWithSpaces()
-        endWithNewline()
-    }
-}
diff --git a/android/spotless.gradle b/android/spotless.gradle
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7c9f86c0aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/android/spotless.gradle
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+// formatter & linter configuration for kotlin
+apply plugin: 'com.diffplug.spotless'
+
+spotless {
+  kotlin {
+    target 'src/**/*.kt'
+    ktlint("0.40.0")
+    trimTrailingWhitespace()
+    indentWithSpaces()
+    endWithNewline()
+  }
+}