After having read the API I decided to use a hand-written navigator instead of ReactNative's. Key was to explicitly expose the z-index/component-ordering, so w

After having read the API I decided to use a hand-written navigator instead of ReactNative's. Key was to explicitly expose the z-index/component-ordering, so what it does is accepting a "render-list" of compnentName/props/animation triples which it then displays in absolutely positioned AnimatedViews on top of each other. This way I have good flexibility without introducing metaphors that keep breaking.