diff --git a/react-native/android/publish_android_template b/react-native/android/publish_android_template
index 16556063..6118b1fd 100644
--- a/react-native/android/publish_android_template
+++ b/react-native/android/publish_android_template
@@ -66,9 +66,17 @@ String getAppId () {
 
 apply from: 'analytics.gradle'
 
+import groovy.json.JsonSlurper
+
+def getNpmVersion() {
+    def inputFile = new File(buildscript.sourceFile.getParent() + "/../package.json")
+    def packageJson = new JsonSlurper().parseText(inputFile.text)
+    return packageJson["version"]
+}
+
 task send(type: SendAnalyticsTask) {
     applicationId = getAppId()
-    version = "npm --silent run get-version".execute(null, projectDir).text.trim()
+    version = getNpmVersion().trim()
 }
 
 preBuild.dependsOn send