diff --git a/tests/app/ui/button/button-tests.ts b/tests/app/ui/button/button-tests.ts
index e9f4caeff..1af31325d 100644
--- a/tests/app/ui/button/button-tests.ts
+++ b/tests/app/ui/button/button-tests.ts
@@ -404,3 +404,18 @@ export function test_setting_formattedText_With_UnknownFont_DoesNotCrash() {
         TKUnit.waitUntilReady(() => btn.isLayoutValid);
     });
 }
+
+export function test_Native_Background_Color_BorderRadius_Change() {
+    let view = new buttonModule.Button();
+    view.text = "TEST";
+    helper.buildUIAndRunTest(view, function (views: Array<viewModule.View>) {
+        let page = <pagesModule.Page>views[1];
+        page.css = ".border { background-color: #00FF00; border-radius: 1; } .colorfilter { background-color: #FF0000; }";
+        view.className = "border";
+        helper.waitUntilLayoutReady(view);
+        TKUnit.assertEqual(buttonTestsNative.getNativeBackgroundColor(view).hex, "#00FF00");
+        view.className = "colorfilter";
+        helper.waitUntilLayoutReady(view);
+        TKUnit.assertEqual(buttonTestsNative.getNativeBackgroundColor(view).hex, "#FF0000");
+    });
+}
diff --git a/tns-core-modules/ui/styling/background.android.ts b/tns-core-modules/ui/styling/background.android.ts
index 9f3e9ed77..123357b5d 100644
--- a/tns-core-modules/ui/styling/background.android.ts
+++ b/tns-core-modules/ui/styling/background.android.ts
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ export module ad {
 
         if (isSetColorFilterOnlyWidget(nativeView)
             && drawable
+            && !(drawable instanceof org.nativescript.widgets.BorderDrawable)
             && !background.hasBorderWidth()
             && !background.hasBorderRadius()
             && !background.clipPath