diff --git a/types/react-native/index.d.ts b/types/react-native/index.d.ts
index 074c90265d..d7648997f5 100644
--- a/types/react-native/index.d.ts
+++ b/types/react-native/index.d.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Type definitions for react-native 0.47
+// Type definitions for react-native 0.48
 // Project: https://github.com/facebook/react-native
 // Definitions by: Eloy Durán <https://github.com/alloy>
 //                 Fedor Nezhivoi <https://github.com/gyzerok>
@@ -4328,6 +4328,16 @@ export interface MapViewStatic extends NativeMethodsMixin, React.ComponentClass<
     }
 }
 
+interface MaskedViewProperties extends ViewProperties {
+    maskElement: React.ReactElement<any>,
+}
+
+/**
+ * @see https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/maskedviewios.html
+ */
+export interface MaskedViewStatic extends NativeMethodsMixin, React.ComponentClass<MaskedViewProperties> {
+}
+
 export interface ModalProperties {
 
     // Only `animated` is documented. The JS code says `animated` is
@@ -8893,6 +8903,9 @@ export type ListView = ListViewStatic
 export var MapView: MapViewStatic
 export type MapView = MapViewStatic
 
+export var MaskedView: MaskedViewStatic
+export type MaskedView = MaskedViewStatic
+
 export var Modal: ModalStatic
 export type Modal = ModalStatic
 
diff --git a/types/react-native/test/index.tsx b/types/react-native/test/index.tsx
index 57c8bb106a..9771db9bc9 100644
--- a/types/react-native/test/index.tsx
+++ b/types/react-native/test/index.tsx
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ import {
     ScrollViewProps,
     RefreshControl,
     TabBarIOS,
-    NativeModules
+    NativeModules,
+    MaskedView,
 } from 'react-native';
 
 declare module 'react-native' {
@@ -354,3 +355,17 @@ class AlertTest extends React.Component {
         );
     }
 }
+
+class MaskedViewTest extends React.Component {
+    render() {
+        return (
+            <MaskedView
+                maskElement={
+                    <View />
+                }
+            >
+                <View />
+            </MaskedView>
+        )
+    }
+}