diff --git a/apps/app/ui-tests-app/modal-view/login-page.ts b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/modal-view/login-page.ts
index 2c4d5917f..86431d84b 100644
--- a/apps/app/ui-tests-app/modal-view/login-page.ts
+++ b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/modal-view/login-page.ts
@@ -1,32 +1,29 @@
-import * as pages from "tns-core-modules/ui/page";
-import * as textField from "tns-core-modules/ui/text-field";
-import * as observable from "tns-core-modules/data/observable";
+import { Page, ShownModallyData } from "tns-core-modules/ui/page";
+import { EventData, fromObject } from "tns-core-modules/data/observable";
 
-var context: any;
-var closeCallback: Function;
+export function onShowingModally(args: ShownModallyData) {
+    console.log("login-page.onShowingModally, context: " + args.context);
+    const page = <Page>args.object;
 
-var page: pages.Page;
-var usernameTextField: textField.TextField;
-var passwordTextField: textField.TextField;
-
-export function onShownModally(args: pages.ShownModallyData) {
-    console.log("login-page.onShownModally, context: " + args.context);
-    context = args.context;
-    closeCallback = args.closeCallback;
+    page.bindingContext = fromObject({
+        username: "username",
+        password: "password",
+        context: args.context,
+        onLoginButtonTap: function() {
+            console.log("login-page.onLoginButtonTap");
+            args.closeCallback(this.username, this.password);
+        }
+    })
 }
 
-export function onLoaded(args: observable.EventData) {
+export function onShownModally(args: ShownModallyData) {
+    console.log("login-page.onShownModally, context: " + args.context);
+}
+
+export function onLoaded(args: EventData) {
     console.log("login-page.onLoaded");
-    page = <pages.Page>args.object;
-    usernameTextField = page.getViewById<textField.TextField>("username");
-    passwordTextField = page.getViewById<textField.TextField>("password");
 }
 
 export function onUnloaded() {
     console.log("login-page.onUnloaded");
 }
-
-export function onLoginButtonTap() {
-    console.log("login-page.onLoginButtonTap");
-    closeCallback(usernameTextField.text, passwordTextField.text);
-}
diff --git a/apps/app/ui-tests-app/modal-view/login-page.xml b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/modal-view/login-page.xml
index f2fd8c601..87c8487f3 100644
--- a/apps/app/ui-tests-app/modal-view/login-page.xml
+++ b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/modal-view/login-page.xml
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
-<Page xmlns="http://schemas.nativescript.org/tns.xsd" shownModally="onShownModally" 
+<Page xmlns="http://schemas.nativescript.org/tns.xsd"  
+  showingModally="onShowingModally"
+  shownModally="onShownModally" 
   loaded="onLoaded" unloaded="onUnloaded" backgroundColor="Red">
   <StackLayout backgroundColor="PaleGreen" margin="10">
-    <TextField hint="username" id="username" text="username"/>
-    <TextField hint="password" id="password" text="password" secure="true"/>
-    <Button text="Login" tap="onLoginButtonTap"/>
+    <Label text="{{ context }}"/>
+    <TextField hint="username" text="{{ username }}"/>
+    <TextField hint="password" text="{{ password }}" secure="true"/>
+    <Button text="Login" tap="{{ onLoginButtonTap }}"/>
   </StackLayout>
 </Page>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/apps/app/ui-tests-app/modal-view/modal-view.ts b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/modal-view/modal-view.ts
index 643377c5e..dec7ab7ab 100644
--- a/apps/app/ui-tests-app/modal-view/modal-view.ts
+++ b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/modal-view/modal-view.ts
@@ -16,9 +16,39 @@ export function onTapStretched(args) {
     const label = page.getViewById<Label>("label");
     var fullscreen = false;
     var stretched = true;
-    
+
     page.showModal("ui-tests-app/modal-view/login-page", "context", function (username: string, password: string) {
         console.log(username + "/" + password);
         label.text = username + "/" + password;
     }, fullscreen, false, stretched);
 }
+
+function openModal(page: Page, label: Label, context: string) {
+    page.showModal("ui-tests-app/modal-view/login-page", context, function (username: string, password: string) {
+        const result = context + "/" + username + "/" + password;
+        console.log(result);
+        label.text = result;
+    }, false);
+}
+
+export function onTapSecondModalInCB(args) {
+    const page = <Page>args.object.page;
+    const label = page.getViewById<Label>("label");
+    page.showModal("ui-tests-app/modal-view/login-page", "First", function (username: string, password: string) {
+        const result = "First/" + username + "/" + password;
+        console.log(result);
+        label.text = result;
+
+        // Open second modal in the close callback of the first one.
+        openModal(page, label, "Second");
+    });
+}
+
+export function onTapSecondModalInTimer(args) {
+    const page = <Page>args.object.page;
+    const label = page.getViewById<Label>("label");
+    openModal(page, label, "First");
+
+    // Open second modal 1s after the first one.
+    setTimeout(() => openModal(page, label, "Second"), 1000);
+}
diff --git a/apps/app/ui-tests-app/modal-view/modal-view.xml b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/modal-view/modal-view.xml
index f33217964..44c980dcc 100644
--- a/apps/app/ui-tests-app/modal-view/modal-view.xml
+++ b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/modal-view/modal-view.xml
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
     <Button text="Login (pop-up)" tap="onTap" />
     <Button text="Login (full-screen)" tap="onTap" />
     <Button text="Login (pop-up-stretched)" tap="onTapStretched" />
+
+    <Button text="Login (second modal in cb)" tap="onTapSecondModalInCB" />
+    <Button text="Login (second modal in timer)" tap="onTapSecondModalInTimer" />
+
     <Label id="label" text="Anonymous"/>
   </StackLayout>
 </Page>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/app/ui/page/page-tests-common.ts b/tests/app/ui/page/page-tests-common.ts
index e978aadb1..7275ca10f 100644
--- a/tests/app/ui/page/page-tests-common.ts
+++ b/tests/app/ui/page/page-tests-common.ts
@@ -738,6 +738,7 @@ export function test_WhenPageIsNavigatedToItCanShowAnotherPageAsModal() {
         TKUnit.assertTrue(ctx.shownModally, "Modal-page must be shown!");
         TKUnit.assertEqual(returnValue, "return value", "Modal-page must return value!");
         modalClosed = true;
+        TKUnit.assertNull(masterPage.modal, "currentPage.modal should be undefined when no modal page is shown!");
     }
 
     let modalPage: Page;
@@ -758,7 +759,6 @@ export function test_WhenPageIsNavigatedToItCanShowAnotherPageAsModal() {
     const onModalUnloaded = function (args: EventData) {
         modalUnloaded++;
         modalPage.off(Page.unloadedEvent, onModalUnloaded);
-        TKUnit.assertNull(masterPage.modal, "currentPage.modal should be undefined when no modal page is shown!");
     }
 
     const navigatedToEventHandler = function (args) {
diff --git a/tests/app/ui/page/page-tests.ios.ts b/tests/app/ui/page/page-tests.ios.ts
index 88b6c498e..34bbed8b6 100644
--- a/tests/app/ui/page/page-tests.ios.ts
+++ b/tests/app/ui/page/page-tests.ios.ts
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ export function test_WhenShowingModalPageUnloadedIsNotFiredForTheMasterPage() {
     let onModalUnloaded = function (args: EventData) {
         modalUnloaded++;
         modalPage.off(Page.unloadedEvent, onModalUnloaded);
-        TKUnit.assertNull(masterPage.modal, "currentPage.modal should be undefined when no modal page is shown!");
     }
 
     var navigatedToEventHandler = function (args) {
diff --git a/tns-core-modules/ui/core/view/view-common.ts b/tns-core-modules/ui/core/view/view-common.ts
index 45727dea4..64ebfa13a 100644
--- a/tns-core-modules/ui/core/view/view-common.ts
+++ b/tns-core-modules/ui/core/view/view-common.ts
@@ -225,10 +225,10 @@ export abstract class ViewCommon extends ViewBase implements ViewDefinition {
             const animated = arguments[4];
             const stretched = arguments[5];
 
-            const view: ViewDefinition = firstAgrument instanceof ViewCommon
-                ? firstAgrument : createViewFromEntry({ moduleName: firstAgrument });
+            const view = firstAgrument instanceof ViewCommon
+                ? firstAgrument : <ViewCommon>createViewFromEntry({ moduleName: firstAgrument });
 
-            (<ViewCommon>view)._showNativeModalView(this, context, closeCallback, fullscreen, animated, stretched);
+            view._showNativeModalView(this, context, closeCallback, fullscreen, animated, stretched);
             return view;
         }
     }
@@ -256,27 +256,29 @@ export abstract class ViewCommon extends ViewBase implements ViewDefinition {
         this._modalParent = parent;
         this._modalContext = context;
         const that = this;
-        this._closeModalCallback = function () {
+        this._closeModalCallback = function (...originalArgs) {
             if (that._closeModalCallback) {
                 const modalIndex = _rootModalViews.indexOf(that);
                 _rootModalViews.splice(modalIndex);
-                that._hideNativeModalView(parent);
-                that._modalParent = null;
-                that._modalContext = null;
-                that._closeModalCallback = null;
-                that._dialogClosed();
-                parent._modal = null;
 
-                if (typeof closeCallback === "function") {
-                    closeCallback.apply(undefined, arguments);
+                const whenClosedCallback = () => {
+                    that._modalParent = null;
+                    that._modalContext = null;
+                    that._closeModalCallback = null;
+                    that._dialogClosed();
+                    parent._modal = null;
+
+                    if (typeof closeCallback === "function") {
+                        closeCallback.apply(undefined, originalArgs);
+                    }
                 }
+
+                that._hideNativeModalView(parent, whenClosedCallback);
             }
         };
     }
 
-    protected _hideNativeModalView(parent: ViewCommon) {
-        //
-    }
+    protected abstract _hideNativeModalView(parent: ViewCommon, whenClosedCallback: () => void);
 
     protected _raiseLayoutChangedEvent() {
         const args: EventData = {
diff --git a/tns-core-modules/ui/core/view/view.android.ts b/tns-core-modules/ui/core/view/view.android.ts
index 8d97d79c9..207068057 100644
--- a/tns-core-modules/ui/core/view/view.android.ts
+++ b/tns-core-modules/ui/core/view/view.android.ts
@@ -613,14 +613,14 @@ export class View extends ViewCommon {
         this._dialogFragment.show(parent._getRootFragmentManager(), this._domId.toString());
     }
 
-    protected _hideNativeModalView(parent: View) {
+    protected _hideNativeModalView(parent: View, whenClosedCallback: () => void) {
         const manager = this._dialogFragment.getFragmentManager();
         if (manager) {
             this._dialogFragment.dismissAllowingStateLoss();
         }
 
         this._dialogFragment = null;
-        super._hideNativeModalView(parent);
+        whenClosedCallback();
     }
 
     [isEnabledProperty.setNative](value: boolean) {
diff --git a/tns-core-modules/ui/core/view/view.ios.ts b/tns-core-modules/ui/core/view/view.ios.ts
index 499061701..5f93e773f 100644
--- a/tns-core-modules/ui/core/view/view.ios.ts
+++ b/tns-core-modules/ui/core/view/view.ios.ts
@@ -380,8 +380,14 @@ export class View extends ViewCommon {
         }
 
         const parentController = parentWithController.viewController;
+        if (parentController.presentedViewController) {
+            traceWrite("Parent is already presenting view controller. Close the current modal page before showing another one!",
+                traceCategories.ViewHierarchy, traceMessageType.error);
+            return;
+        }
+
         if (!parentController.view || !parentController.view.window) {
-            traceWrite("Parent page is not part of the window hierarchy. Close the current modal page before showing another one!",
+            traceWrite("Parent page is not part of the window hierarchy.",
                 traceCategories.ViewHierarchy, traceMessageType.error);
             return;
         }
@@ -426,7 +432,7 @@ export class View extends ViewCommon {
         }
     }
 
-    protected _hideNativeModalView(parent: View) {
+    protected _hideNativeModalView(parent: View, whenClosedCallback: () => void) {
         if (!parent || !parent.viewController) {
             traceError("Trying to hide modal view but no parent with viewController specified.")
             return;
@@ -435,8 +441,7 @@ export class View extends ViewCommon {
         const parentController = parent.viewController;
         const animated = (<any>this.viewController).animated;
 
-        super._hideNativeModalView(parent);
-        parentController.dismissModalViewControllerAnimated(animated);
+        parentController.dismissViewControllerAnimatedCompletion(animated, whenClosedCallback);
     }
 
     [isEnabledProperty.getDefault](): boolean {
@@ -907,11 +912,11 @@ export namespace ios {
                         const parentPageInsetsTop = parent.nativeViewProtected.safeAreaInsets.top;
                         const currentInsetsTop = this.view.safeAreaInsets.top;
                         const additionalInsetsTop = Math.max(parentPageInsetsTop - currentInsetsTop, 0);
-    
+
                         const parentPageInsetsBottom = parent.nativeViewProtected.safeAreaInsets.bottom;
                         const currentInsetsBottom = this.view.safeAreaInsets.bottom;
                         const additionalInsetsBottom = Math.max(parentPageInsetsBottom - currentInsetsBottom, 0);
-    
+
                         if (additionalInsetsTop > 0 || additionalInsetsBottom > 0) {
                             const additionalInsets = new UIEdgeInsets({ top: additionalInsetsTop, left: 0, bottom: additionalInsetsBottom, right: 0 });
                             this.additionalSafeAreaInsets = additionalInsets;