diff --git a/types/react-native-elevated-view/index.d.ts b/types/react-native-elevated-view/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for react-native-elevated-view 0.0
+// Project: https://github.com/alekhurst/react-native-elevated-view
+// Definitions by: fhelwanger <https://github.com/fhelwanger>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+// TypeScript Version: 2.6
+
+import * as React from 'react';
+import * as ReactNative from 'react-native';
+
+export interface ElevatedViewProperties extends ReactNative.ViewProperties {
+    elevation?: number;
+}
+
+export default class ElevatedView extends React.Component<ElevatedViewProperties> {}
diff --git a/types/react-native-elevated-view/react-native-elevated-view-tests.tsx b/types/react-native-elevated-view/react-native-elevated-view-tests.tsx
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+import * as React from "react";
+import ElevatedView from "react-native-elevated-view";
+
+() => {
+    <ElevatedView />;
+};
+
+() => {
+    <ElevatedView elevation={5} style={{ backgroundColor: 'red' }} />;
+};
diff --git a/types/react-native-elevated-view/tsconfig.json b/types/react-native-elevated-view/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true,
+        "jsx": "react"
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "react-native-elevated-view-tests.tsx"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/react-native-elevated-view/tslint.json b/types/react-native-elevated-view/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }