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I am working on a little map application using react-native-maps. I am trying to render a floating action button on top of the map, but while I do see it flashing for a second, as soon as the map renders, it sits right on top of the button. I will paste my render code and styles below:

render() {
        return (
          <View style={{flex:1, backgroundColor: '#f3f3f3'}}>
            <MapView ref="map" mapType="terrain" style={styles.map} region={this.state.region} onRegionChange={this.onRegionChange}>
              <MapView.Marker coordinate={{latitude: this.state.region.latitude, longitude: this.state.region.longitude}}>
                <View style={styles.radius}>
                  <View style={styles.marker} />
                </View>
              </MapView.Marker>
            </MapView>
            <ActionButton buttonColor="rgba(231,76,60,1)" style={styles.actionButton}>
              <ActionButton.Item buttonColor='#9b59b6' title="New Task" onPress={() => console.log("notes tapped!")}>
                <Icon name="rocket" style={styles.actionButtonIcon} />
              </ActionButton.Item>
              <ActionButton.Item buttonColor='#3498db' title="Notifications" onPress={() => {}}>
                <Icon name="rocket" style={styles.actionButtonIcon} />
              </ActionButton.Item>
              <ActionButton.Item buttonColor='#1abc9c' title="All Tasks" onPress={() => {}}>
                <Icon name="rocket" style={styles.actionButtonIcon} />
              </ActionButton.Item>
            </ActionButton>
          </View>
const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center',
    backgroundColor: '#F5FCFF',
  map: {
    width: width,
    height: height,
    zIndex: 998
  radius: {
    height: 50,
    width: 50,
    borderRadius: 50 / 2,
    overflow: 'hidden',
    backgroundColor: 'rgba(0, 122, 255, 0.1)',
    borderWidth: 1,
    borderColor: 'rgba(0, 122, 255, 0.3)',
    alignItems: 'center',
    justifyContent: 'center'
  marker: {
    height: 20,
    width: 20,
    borderWidth: 3,
    borderColor: 'white',
    borderRadius: 20 / 2,
    overflow: 'hidden',
    backgroundColor: '#007AFF'
  actionButton: {
    position: 'absolute',
    width: 20,
    height: 20,
    top: 10,
    left: 10,
    zIndex: 999
  actionButtonIcon: {
    fontSize: 20,
    height: 22,
    color: 'white'
                How about a screenshot of the issue? It's hard to know what you mean by "after a flash it sits on top of the button"..
– Dominic
                Mar 20, 2017 at 17:17
                Unfortunately it is really difficult to grab a screenshot of something that flashes only for a split second on the screen, but someone came up with the right answer though, so thank you for your time anyway :)
– TheApeMachine
                Mar 21, 2017 at 10:02
I had the same problem. I solved it by giving the map a negative z-index.
 Also, I used flex: 1, instead of width and height, but that shouldn't make a difference.
Like: 

  map: {
    width: width,
    height: height,
    zIndex: -1
  actionButton: {
    position: 'absolute',
    width: 20,
    height: 20,
    top: 10,
    left: 10,
    zIndex: 10
        
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