zIndex works in iOS but not working in Android (even after 0.48.2)

[ketn]

Is this a bug report?

Yes

Have you read the Contributing Guidelines?

Yes

Environment

1. react-native -v:
   react-native-cli: 2.0.1
   react-native: 0.48.2
2. node -v:
   v6.3.0
3. npm -v:
   5.4.0
4. yarn --version:
   1.0.1

Then, specify:

• Target Platform: Android

• Development Operating System: macOS Sierra

• Build tools: -

Steps to Reproduce

(Write your steps here:)

1. When you run the app, there are supposed to be two images that are not visible because zIndex is applied to them.
2. If you delete the zIndex part from their style, the images would be visible.
3. You can press both the images individually and drag them left and right.

Expected Behavior

First of all, the images should be visible. Second, when visible, those images can be pressed and dragged to left or right. As per the code, when I press on the left image and slide it to right, since its zIndex will increase, it should come above the right image when dragged right. Same will happen for the right image when dragged to the left side (i.e. this time right image would come above left image)

Actual Behavior

Due to some bug, even though, the above code works properly in iOS, in Android specifically, it gives this bug due to which images are not visible (just because they have zIndex assigned)

Also, I've gone through #15713 , #8968 and #15203
They state that the bug got fixed in 0.48 and 0.48.2 , but as you can see in the reproducible demo below, it still exists in 0.48.2.

Reproducible Demo

https://snack.expo.io/HkJ4M_T5W

Anyone has any idea what's wrong since this bug is still happening in 0.48.2 for Android (yet working for iOS)?

[Noitidart]

Hey I am using 0.49.3 @ketn and a fix landed. Try it again it might work, let us know.

[SourceCipher]

Same issue with zIndex.. Seems like they have no meaning to my components at all, no matter if I set zIndex of 1 component to 99 while the rest to 1 or none, nothing will happen. Even positioning to absolute will not help. Wasted too much time on this and still cant find a working way around