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 8d92ed395..c4de55839 100644
--- a/apps/app/ui-tests-app/modal-view/login-page.xml
+++ b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/modal-view/login-page.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <Page xmlns="http://schemas.nativescript.org/tns.xsd" shownModally="onShownModally" loaded="onLoaded" unloaded="onUnloaded" backgroundColor="Red">
-  <StackLayout backgroundColor="PaleGreen">
+  <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"/>
diff --git a/tns-core-modules/ui/page/page.android.ts b/tns-core-modules/ui/page/page.android.ts
index 4a9f18479..371333bae 100644
--- a/tns-core-modules/ui/page/page.android.ts
+++ b/tns-core-modules/ui/page/page.android.ts
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ export class Page extends pageCommon.Page {
 
         this._onAttached(parent._context);
         this._isAddedToNativeVisualTree = true;
+        this._syncNativeProperties();
 
         ensureDialogFragmentClass();