diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 79e144e57b3393c8b60211dde89b13464ea0995a..9d1d00c2a3517af1cd2bd4b01d633d6011107d29 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
     "gl-react": "^2.2.4"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "invariant": "2.2.0",
-    "promise-defer": "1.0.0"
+    "invariant": "2.2.0"
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/GLCanvas.js b/src/GLCanvas.js
index 938d42dd865b0b50ddbb7a3e19665c6b36ac5b42..29d4c993a6706591bd5d2f743cc385c56e56bf8a 100644
--- a/src/GLCanvas.js
+++ b/src/GLCanvas.js
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import invariant from "invariant";
 import React, {Component} from "react";
   import {requireNativeComponent, findNodeHandle} from "react-native";
-import defer from "promise-defer";
 import captureFrame from "./GLCanvas.captureFrame";
 
 const serializeOption = config =>
@@ -39,10 +38,20 @@ class GLCanvas extends Component {
     const key = serializeOption(config);
     return this._pendingCaptureFrame[key] || (
       (captureFrame(findNodeHandle(this.refs.native), config),
-      this._pendingCaptureFrame[key] = defer())
+      this._pendingCaptureFrame[key] = this._makeDeferred())
     );
   }
 
+  _makeDeferred() {
+    var defer = {};
+    var p = new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
+      defer.resolve = resolve;
+      defer.reject;
+    });
+    defer.promise = p;
+    return defer;
+  }
+
   captureFrame (configArg) {
     let config;
     if (configArg) {