React native Touch events are passing through absolute view

This turned out to be the issue/fix for our app (see first and final comments): move the absolute element to the last element in the top view

zIndex / Touch issue on Android

Add pointerEvents attribute. The documentation can be found here http://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/0.50/view#pointerevents Add the pointerEvents to this view in renderFilterList method

<View
  style={[
    movieFilterListContainerStyle,
    {
      width: filterListWidth,
    },
  ]}
  pointerEvents={'box-only'}
>