diff --git a/app/build.gradle b/app/build.gradle
index 4207db0ea..8d5a70fee 100644
--- a/app/build.gradle
+++ b/app/build.gradle
@@ -245,13 +245,7 @@ android {
         xmlReport false
         textReport false
 
-        // Our translations are crowd-sourced
-        disable 'MissingTranslation'
-
-        // to make CI fail on errors until this is fixed https://github.com/rtyley/spongycastle/issues/7
-        warning 'InvalidPackage', 'ImpliedQuantity'
-
-        error 'AppCompatMethod', 'NestedScrolling', 'StringFormatCount', 'UnsafeProtectedBroadcastReceiver'
+        lintConfig file("lint.xml")
     }
 
     packagingOptions {
diff --git a/app/lint.xml b/app/lint.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c0d2f2f10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/lint.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<lint>
+    <!-- Our translations are crowd-sourced -->
+    <issue id="MissingTranslation" severity="ignore"/>
+
+    <!-- to make CI fail on errors until this is fixed
+         https://github.com/rtyley/spongycastle/issues/7 -->
+    <issue id="InvalidPackage" severity="warning"/>
+    <issue id="ImpliedQuantity" severity="warning"/>
+
+    <!-- These are important to us, so promote from warning to error -->
+    <issue id="AppCompatMethod" severity="error"/>
+    <issue id="NestedScrolling" severity="error"/>
+    <issue id="StringFormatCount" severity="error"/>
+    <issue id="UnsafeProtectedBroadcastReceiver" severity="error"/>
+</lint>