If someone’s still looking for a suggestion to the problem that @Ponleu and @David Schilling have described here (regarding content that goes above the FlatList), then this is the approach I took:
<SafeAreaView style={{flex: 1}}>
<FlatList
data={data}
ListHeaderComponent={ContentThatGoesAboveTheFlatList}
ListFooterComponent={ContentThatGoesBelowTheFlatList} />
</SafeAreaView>
You can read more about this here: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/flatlist#listheadercomponent
Hopefully it helps someone. 🙂