diff --git a/apps/app/ui-tests-app/tab-view/tab-view-icon.ts b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/tab-view/tab-view-icon.ts
index 28bf897d7..81942fa1f 100644
--- a/apps/app/ui-tests-app/tab-view/tab-view-icon.ts
+++ b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/tab-view/tab-view-icon.ts
@@ -4,13 +4,18 @@ import { TabView } from "tns-core-modules/ui/tab-view";
 
 let iconModes = ["automatic", "alwaysOriginal", "alwaysTemplate", undefined];
 
-export function onChangeRenderingMode(args: EventData){
+export const onNavigate = updateButtons;
+
+export function onChangeRenderingMode(args: EventData) {
+    let tabView = (<Button>args.object).page.getViewById<TabView>("tab-view");
+    tabView.iosIconRenderingMode = <"automatic" | "alwaysOriginal" | "alwaysTemplate">iconModes[(iconModes.indexOf(tabView.iosIconRenderingMode) + 1) % iconModes.length];
+    updateButtons(args);
+}
+
+function updateButtons(args) {
     let button = (<Button>args.object);
     let tabView = button.page.getViewById<TabView>("tab-view");
-     
-    tabView.iosIconRenderingMode = <"automatic" | "alwaysOriginal" | "alwaysTemplate">iconModes[(iconModes.indexOf(tabView.iosIconRenderingMode) + 1) % iconModes.length];
-
-    for(let i = 0, length = tabView.items.length; i < length; i++){
-        (<Button>tabView.items[i].view).text = "" + tabView.iosIconRenderingMode; 
+    for (let i = 0, length = tabView.items.length; i < length; i++) {
+        (<Button>tabView.items[i].view).text = "" + tabView.iosIconRenderingMode;
     }
 }
diff --git a/apps/app/ui-tests-app/tab-view/tab-view-icon.xml b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/tab-view/tab-view-icon.xml
index 58a2c6705..d2200216c 100644
--- a/apps/app/ui-tests-app/tab-view/tab-view-icon.xml
+++ b/apps/app/ui-tests-app/tab-view/tab-view-icon.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<Page xmlns="http://schemas.nativescript.org/tns.xsd">
+<Page xmlns="http://schemas.nativescript.org/tns.xsd" navigatingTo="onNavigate">
     <TabView id="tab-view" tabTextColor="green" selectedTabTextColor="red" tabBackgroundColor="yellow">
         <TabView.items>
             <TabViewItem iconSource="res://icon">