diff --git a/tns-core-modules/ui/button/button.android.ts b/tns-core-modules/ui/button/button.android.ts
index 372ace91c..aec1ffe6e 100644
--- a/tns-core-modules/ui/button/button.android.ts
+++ b/tns-core-modules/ui/button/button.android.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import dependencyObservable = require("ui/core/dependency-observable");
 import style = require("ui/styling/style");
 import { TextBaseStyler as TBS } from "ui/text-base/text-base-styler";
 import {device} from "platform";
+let styleHandlersInitialized: boolean;
 
 global.moduleMerge(common, exports);
 
@@ -15,6 +16,10 @@ export class Button extends common.Button {
         super();
 
         this._isPressed = false;
+        if(!styleHandlersInitialized) {
+            styleHandlersInitialized = true;
+            ButtonStyler.registerHandlers();
+        }
     }
 
     get android(): android.widget.Button {
@@ -128,6 +133,4 @@ export class ButtonStyler implements style.Styler {
                 TextBaseStyler.getLetterSpacingProperty), "Button");
         }
     }
-}
-
-ButtonStyler.registerHandlers();
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+}
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diff --git a/tns-core-modules/ui/text-base/text-base-common.ts b/tns-core-modules/ui/text-base/text-base-common.ts
index 526de37b5..09201f873 100644
--- a/tns-core-modules/ui/text-base/text-base-common.ts
+++ b/tns-core-modules/ui/text-base/text-base-common.ts
@@ -45,10 +45,19 @@ function onFormattedTextPropertyChanged(data: dependencyObservable.PropertyChang
 
 (<proxy.PropertyMetadata>formattedTextProperty.metadata).onSetNativeValue = onFormattedTextPropertyChanged;
 
+let styleHandlersInitialized: boolean;
 export class TextBase extends view.View implements definition.TextBase, formattedString.FormattedStringView {
     public static textProperty = textProperty;
     public static formattedTextProperty = formattedTextProperty;
 
+    constructor() {
+        super();
+        if (!styleHandlersInitialized) {
+            styleHandlersInitialized = true;
+            tbs.TextBaseStyler.registerHandlers();
+        }
+    }
+
     public _onBindingContextChanged(oldValue: any, newValue: any) {
         super._onBindingContextChanged(oldValue, newValue);
         if (this.formattedText) {
@@ -134,6 +143,4 @@ export class TextBase extends view.View implements definition.TextBase, formatte
     _requestLayoutOnTextChanged(): void {
         this.requestLayout();
     }
-}
-
-tbs.TextBaseStyler.registerHandlers();
+}
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