diff --git a/apps/toolbox/src/pages/labels.ts b/apps/toolbox/src/pages/labels.ts
index 6a625c8f3..445138a06 100644
--- a/apps/toolbox/src/pages/labels.ts
+++ b/apps/toolbox/src/pages/labels.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { Page, Observable, EventData } from '@nativescript/core';
+import { Page, Observable, EventData, Label, Color } from '@nativescript/core';
 
 let page: Page;
 
@@ -7,4 +7,23 @@ export function navigatingTo(args: EventData) {
 	page.bindingContext = new SampleData();
 }
 
-export class SampleData extends Observable {}
+export class SampleData extends Observable {
+	strokeLabel: Label;
+
+	loadedStrokeLabel(args) {
+		this.strokeLabel = args.object;
+	}
+
+	toggleStrokeStyle() {
+		if (this.strokeLabel.style.textStroke) {
+			this.strokeLabel.style.color = new Color('black');
+			this.strokeLabel.style.textStroke = null;
+		} else {
+			this.strokeLabel.style.color = new Color('white');
+			this.strokeLabel.style.textStroke = {
+				color: new Color('black'),
+				width: { value: 2, unit: 'px' },
+			};
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/apps/toolbox/src/pages/labels.xml b/apps/toolbox/src/pages/labels.xml
index 6d6175529..a9239d3e9 100644
--- a/apps/toolbox/src/pages/labels.xml
+++ b/apps/toolbox/src/pages/labels.xml
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@
 		<GridLayout marginTop="10" borderWidth="1" borderColor="#efefef" height="60" paddingLeft="5">
 			<Button text="Test Button text-overflow: initial, this should be long sentence and truncated in the middle with ellipsis." textOverflow="initial" whiteSpace="nowrap" />
 		</GridLayout>
+		<GridLayout marginTop="10" height="60" paddingLeft="5" tap="{{toggleStrokeStyle}}">
+			<Label text=" text-stroke" style="text-stroke: 2px black; color: #fff; font-size: 35; font-weight: bold; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" loaded="{{loadedStrokeLabel}}"/>
+		</GridLayout>
         <Label text="maxLines 2" fontWeight="bold" marginTop="10" />
         <Label
 				text="Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum."
diff --git a/packages/core/platforms/android/widgets-release.aar b/packages/core/platforms/android/widgets-release.aar
index 8697cef56..87cbccb7e 100644
Binary files a/packages/core/platforms/android/widgets-release.aar and b/packages/core/platforms/android/widgets-release.aar differ
diff --git a/packages/core/platforms/ios/src/UIView+NativeScript.h b/packages/core/platforms/ios/src/UIView+NativeScript.h
index 1ee32f0a5..9a07e4d7d 100644
--- a/packages/core/platforms/ios/src/UIView+NativeScript.h
+++ b/packages/core/platforms/ios/src/UIView+NativeScript.h
@@ -10,4 +10,6 @@
 
 -(void)nativeScriptSetFormattedTextDecorationAndTransform:(NSDictionary*)details letterSpacing:(CGFloat)letterSpacing lineHeight:(CGFloat)lineHeight;
 
+-(void)nativeScriptSetFormattedTextStroke:(CGFloat)width color:(UIColor*)color;
+
 @end
diff --git a/packages/core/platforms/ios/src/UIView+NativeScript.m b/packages/core/platforms/ios/src/UIView+NativeScript.m
index 51485226c..f288aeaa5 100644
--- a/packages/core/platforms/ios/src/UIView+NativeScript.m
+++ b/packages/core/platforms/ios/src/UIView+NativeScript.m
@@ -130,4 +130,19 @@
         ((UILabel*)self).attributedText = attrText;
     }
 }
+
+-(void)nativeScriptSetFormattedTextStroke:(CGFloat)width color:(UIColor*)color {
+    if (width > 0) {
+        NSMutableAttributedString *attrText = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithAttributedString:((UILabel*)self).attributedText];
+        [attrText addAttribute:NSStrokeWidthAttributeName value:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:width] range:(NSRange){
+            0,
+            attrText.length
+        }];
+        [attrText addAttribute:NSStrokeColorAttributeName value:color range:(NSRange){
+            0,
+            attrText.length
+        }];
+        ((UILabel*)self).attributedText = attrText;
+    }
+}
 @end
diff --git a/packages/core/ui/index.ts b/packages/core/ui/index.ts
index 658cf9e66..703df4784 100644
--- a/packages/core/ui/index.ts
+++ b/packages/core/ui/index.ts
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ export { CSSHelper } from './styling/css-selector';
 
 export { Switch } from './switch';
 export { TabView, TabViewItem } from './tab-view';
-export { TextBase, getTransformedText, letterSpacingProperty, textAlignmentProperty, textDecorationProperty, textTransformProperty, textShadowProperty, whiteSpaceProperty, textOverflowProperty, lineHeightProperty } from './text-base';
+export { TextBase, getTransformedText, letterSpacingProperty, textAlignmentProperty, textDecorationProperty, textTransformProperty, textShadowProperty, textStrokeProperty, whiteSpaceProperty, textOverflowProperty, lineHeightProperty } from './text-base';
 export { FormattedString } from './text-base/formatted-string';
 export { Span } from './text-base/span';
 export { TextField } from './text-field';
diff --git a/packages/core/ui/label/index.android.ts b/packages/core/ui/label/index.android.ts
index 3de3e617f..c76ddff46 100644
--- a/packages/core/ui/label/index.android.ts
+++ b/packages/core/ui/label/index.android.ts
@@ -7,12 +7,10 @@ import { CoreTypes } from '../../core-types';
 
 export * from '../text-base';
 
-let TextView: typeof android.widget.TextView;
-
 @CSSType('Label')
 export class Label extends TextBase implements LabelDefinition {
-	nativeViewProtected: android.widget.TextView;
-	nativeTextViewProtected: android.widget.TextView;
+	nativeViewProtected: org.nativescript.widgets.StyleableTextView;
+	nativeTextViewProtected: org.nativescript.widgets.StyleableTextView;
 
 	get textWrap(): boolean {
 		return this.style.whiteSpace === 'normal';
@@ -27,11 +25,7 @@ export class Label extends TextBase implements LabelDefinition {
 
 	@profile
 	public createNativeView() {
-		if (!TextView) {
-			TextView = android.widget.TextView;
-		}
-
-		return new TextView(this._context);
+		return new org.nativescript.widgets.StyleableTextView(this._context);
 	}
 
 	public initNativeView(): void {
diff --git a/packages/core/ui/styling/css-shadow.ts b/packages/core/ui/styling/css-shadow.ts
index c35d1362e..598e953d6 100644
--- a/packages/core/ui/styling/css-shadow.ts
+++ b/packages/core/ui/styling/css-shadow.ts
@@ -26,15 +26,11 @@ const LENGTH_RE = /^-?[0-9]+[a-zA-Z%]*?$/;
  */
 const isLength = (v) => v === '0' || LENGTH_RE.test(v);
 
-/**
- * Parse a string into ShadowCSSValues
- * Supports any valid css box/text shadow combination.
- *
- * inspired by https://github.com/jxnblk/css-box-shadow/blob/master/index.js (MIT License)
- *
- * @param value
- */
-export function parseCSSShadow(value: string): ShadowCSSValues {
+export function parseCSSShorthand(value: string): {
+	values: Array<CoreTypes.LengthType>;
+	color: string;
+	inset: boolean;
+} {
 	const parts = value.trim().split(PARTS_RE);
 	const inset = parts.includes('inset');
 	const first = parts[0];
@@ -44,15 +40,15 @@ export function parseCSSShadow(value: string): ShadowCSSValues {
 		return null;
 	}
 
-	let colorRaw = 'black';
+	let color = 'black';
 	if (first && !isLength(first) && first !== 'inset') {
-		colorRaw = first;
+		color = first;
 	} else if (last && !isLength(last)) {
-		colorRaw = last;
+		color = last;
 	}
-	const nums = parts
+	const values = parts
 		.filter((n) => n !== 'inset')
-		.filter((n) => n !== colorRaw)
+		.filter((n) => n !== color)
 		.map((val) => {
 			try {
 				return Length.parse(val);
@@ -60,51 +56,30 @@ export function parseCSSShadow(value: string): ShadowCSSValues {
 				return CoreTypes.zeroLength;
 			}
 		});
-	const [offsetX, offsetY, blurRadius, spreadRadius] = nums;
-
 	return {
 		inset,
+		color,
+		values,
+	};
+}
+/**
+ * Parse a string into ShadowCSSValues
+ * Supports any valid css box/text shadow combination.
+ *
+ * inspired by https://github.com/jxnblk/css-box-shadow/blob/master/index.js (MIT License)
+ *
+ * @param value
+ */
+export function parseCSSShadow(value: string): ShadowCSSValues {
+	const data = parseCSSShorthand(value);
+	const [offsetX, offsetY, blurRadius, spreadRadius] = data.values;
+
+	return {
+		inset: data.inset,
 		offsetX: offsetX,
 		offsetY: offsetY,
 		blurRadius: blurRadius,
 		spreadRadius: spreadRadius,
-		color: new Color(colorRaw),
+		color: new Color(data.color),
 	};
 }
-
-// if (value.indexOf('rgb') > -1) {
-//   arr = value.split(' ');
-//   colorRaw = arr.pop();
-// } else {
-//   arr = value.split(/[ ,]+/);
-//   colorRaw = arr.pop();
-// }
-
-// let offsetX: number;
-// let offsetY: number;
-// let blurRadius: number; // not currently in use
-// let spreadRadius: number; // maybe rename this to just radius
-// let color: Color = new Color(colorRaw);
-
-// if (arr.length === 2) {
-//   offsetX = parseFloat(arr[0]);
-//   offsetY = parseFloat(arr[1]);
-// } else if (arr.length === 3) {
-//   offsetX = parseFloat(arr[0]);
-//   offsetY = parseFloat(arr[1]);
-//   blurRadius = parseFloat(arr[2]);
-// } else if (arr.length === 4) {
-//   offsetX = parseFloat(arr[0]);
-//   offsetY = parseFloat(arr[1]);
-//   blurRadius = parseFloat(arr[2]);
-//   spreadRadius = parseFloat(arr[3]);
-// } else {
-//   throw new Error('Expected 3, 4 or 5 parameters. Actual: ' + value);
-// }
-// return {
-//   offsetX: offsetX,
-//   offsetY: offsetY,
-//   blurRadius: blurRadius,
-//   spreadRadius: spreadRadius,
-//   color: color,
-// };
diff --git a/packages/core/ui/styling/css-stroke.spec.ts b/packages/core/ui/styling/css-stroke.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..60122fc7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/core/ui/styling/css-stroke.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+import { parseCSSStroke } from './css-stroke';
+import { CoreTypes } from '../../core-types';
+import { Length } from './style-properties';
+import { Color } from '../../color';
+
+describe('css-text-stroke', () => {
+	it('empty', () => {
+		const stroke = parseCSSStroke('');
+		expect(stroke.width).toBe(CoreTypes.zeroLength);
+		expect(stroke.color).toEqual(new Color('black'));
+	});
+
+	it('1px navy', () => {
+		const stroke = parseCSSStroke('1px navy');
+		expect(stroke.width).toEqual(Length.parse('1px'));
+		expect(stroke.color).toEqual(new Color('navy'));
+	});
+
+	it('5 green', () => {
+		const stroke = parseCSSStroke('5 green');
+		expect(stroke.width).toEqual(Length.parse('5'));
+		expect(stroke.color).toEqual(new Color('green'));
+	});
+
+	it('2px #999', () => {
+		const stroke = parseCSSStroke('2px #999');
+		expect(stroke.width).toEqual(Length.parse('2px'));
+		expect(stroke.color).toEqual(new Color('#999'));
+	});
+});
diff --git a/packages/core/ui/styling/css-stroke.ts b/packages/core/ui/styling/css-stroke.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..213d30ff6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/core/ui/styling/css-stroke.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+import { CoreTypes } from '../../core-types';
+import { Color } from '../../color';
+import { parseCSSShorthand } from './css-shadow';
+
+export interface StrokeCSSValues {
+	width: CoreTypes.LengthType;
+	color: Color;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Parse a string into StrokeCSSValues
+ * https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/-webkit-text-stroke
+ * @param value
+ */
+export function parseCSSStroke(value: string): StrokeCSSValues {
+	const data = parseCSSShorthand(value);
+	const [width] = data.values;
+
+	return {
+		width,
+		color: new Color(data.color),
+	};
+}
diff --git a/packages/core/ui/styling/style/index.ts b/packages/core/ui/styling/style/index.ts
index dbb6d2d73..3d501521b 100644
--- a/packages/core/ui/styling/style/index.ts
+++ b/packages/core/ui/styling/style/index.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import { Trace } from '../../../trace';
 import { CoreTypes } from '../../../core-types';
 import { AccessibilityLiveRegion, AccessibilityRole, AccessibilityState } from '../../../accessibility/accessibility-types';
 import { ShadowCSSValues } from '../css-shadow';
+import { StrokeCSSValues } from '../css-stroke';
 
 export interface CommonLayoutParams {
 	width: number;
@@ -171,6 +172,7 @@ export class Style extends Observable implements StyleDefinition {
 	public textDecoration: CoreTypes.TextDecorationType;
 	public textTransform: CoreTypes.TextTransformType;
 	public textShadow: ShadowCSSValues;
+	public textStroke: StrokeCSSValues;
 	public whiteSpace: CoreTypes.WhiteSpaceType;
 	public textOverflow: CoreTypes.TextOverflowType;
 
diff --git a/packages/core/ui/text-base/index.android.ts b/packages/core/ui/text-base/index.android.ts
index 37be9f247..6c1535573 100644
--- a/packages/core/ui/text-base/index.android.ts
+++ b/packages/core/ui/text-base/index.android.ts
@@ -5,9 +5,10 @@ import { ShadowCSSValues } from '../styling/css-shadow';
 // Requires
 import { Font } from '../styling/font';
 import { backgroundColorProperty } from '../styling/style-properties';
-import { TextBaseCommon, formattedTextProperty, textAlignmentProperty, textDecorationProperty, textProperty, textTransformProperty, textShadowProperty, letterSpacingProperty, whiteSpaceProperty, lineHeightProperty, isBold, resetSymbol } from './text-base-common';
+import { TextBaseCommon, formattedTextProperty, textAlignmentProperty, textDecorationProperty, textProperty, textTransformProperty, textShadowProperty, textStrokeProperty, letterSpacingProperty, whiteSpaceProperty, lineHeightProperty, isBold, resetSymbol } from './text-base-common';
 import { Color } from '../../color';
 import { colorProperty, fontSizeProperty, fontInternalProperty, paddingLeftProperty, paddingTopProperty, paddingRightProperty, paddingBottomProperty, Length } from '../styling/style-properties';
+import { StrokeCSSValues } from '../styling/css-stroke';
 import { FormattedString } from './formatted-string';
 import { Span } from './span';
 import { CoreTypes } from '../../core-types';
@@ -15,7 +16,6 @@ import { layout } from '../../utils';
 import { SDK_VERSION } from '../../utils/constants';
 import { isString, isNullOrUndefined } from '../../utils/types';
 import { accessibilityIdentifierProperty } from '../../accessibility/accessibility-properties';
-import * as Utils from '../../utils';
 import { testIDProperty } from '../../ui/core/view';
 
 export * from './text-base-common';
@@ -169,9 +169,9 @@ function initializeBaselineAdjustedSpan(): void {
 }
 
 export class TextBase extends TextBaseCommon {
-	nativeViewProtected: android.widget.TextView;
+	nativeViewProtected: org.nativescript.widgets.StyleableTextView;
 	// @ts-ignore
-	nativeTextViewProtected: android.widget.TextView;
+	nativeTextViewProtected: org.nativescript.widgets.StyleableTextView;
 	private _defaultTransformationMethod: android.text.method.TransformationMethod;
 	private _paintFlags: number;
 	private _minHeight: number;
@@ -237,6 +237,9 @@ export class TextBase extends TextBaseCommon {
 
 		this._setNativeText(reset);
 	}
+	[textStrokeProperty.setNative](value: StrokeCSSValues) {
+		this._setNativeText();
+	}
 	createFormattedTextNative(value: FormattedString) {
 		return createSpannableStringBuilder(value, this.style.fontSize);
 	}
@@ -386,7 +389,7 @@ export class TextBase extends TextBaseCommon {
 		}
 	}
 
-	[textDecorationProperty.getDefault](value: number) {
+	[textDecorationProperty.getDefault]() {
 		return (this._paintFlags = this.nativeTextViewProtected.getPaintFlags());
 	}
 
@@ -410,7 +413,7 @@ export class TextBase extends TextBaseCommon {
 		}
 	}
 
-	[textShadowProperty.getDefault](value: number) {
+	[textShadowProperty.getDefault]() {
 		return {
 			radius: this.nativeTextViewProtected.getShadowRadius(),
 			offsetX: this.nativeTextViewProtected.getShadowDx(),
@@ -498,6 +501,13 @@ export class TextBase extends TextBaseCommon {
 			transformedText = getTransformedText(stringValue, this.textTransform);
 		}
 
+		if (this.style?.textStroke) {
+			this.nativeViewProtected.setTextStroke(Length.toDevicePixels(this.style.textStroke.width), this.style.textStroke.color.android, this.style.color.android);
+		} else if (this.nativeViewProtected.setTextStroke) {
+			// reset
+			this.nativeViewProtected.setTextStroke(0, 0, 0);
+		}
+
 		this.nativeTextViewProtected.setText(<any>transformedText);
 	}
 
diff --git a/packages/core/ui/text-base/index.d.ts b/packages/core/ui/text-base/index.d.ts
index 9d3f41c7c..ad393b770 100644
--- a/packages/core/ui/text-base/index.d.ts
+++ b/packages/core/ui/text-base/index.d.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { Length } from '../styling/style-properties';
 import { Property, CssProperty, InheritedCssProperty } from '../core/properties';
 import { CoreTypes } from '../../core-types';
 import { ShadowCSSValues } from '../styling/css-shadow';
+import { StrokeCSSValues } from '../styling/css-stroke';
 
 export class TextBase extends View implements AddChildFromBuilder {
 	/**
@@ -138,6 +139,7 @@ export const textAlignmentProperty: InheritedCssProperty<Style, CoreTypes.TextAl
 export const textDecorationProperty: CssProperty<Style, CoreTypes.TextDecorationType>;
 export const textTransformProperty: CssProperty<Style, CoreTypes.TextTransformType>;
 export const textShadowProperty: CssProperty<Style, ShadowCSSValues>;
+export const textStrokeProperty: CssProperty<Style, StrokeCSSValues>;
 export const whiteSpaceProperty: CssProperty<Style, CoreTypes.WhiteSpaceType>;
 export const textOverflowProperty: CssProperty<Style, CoreTypes.TextOverflowType>;
 export const letterSpacingProperty: CssProperty<Style, number>;
diff --git a/packages/core/ui/text-base/index.ios.ts b/packages/core/ui/text-base/index.ios.ts
index f6eb53111..0fb160eb9 100644
--- a/packages/core/ui/text-base/index.ios.ts
+++ b/packages/core/ui/text-base/index.ios.ts
@@ -5,11 +5,12 @@ import { ShadowCSSValues } from '../styling/css-shadow';
 // Requires
 import { Font } from '../styling/font';
 import { iosAccessibilityAdjustsFontSizeProperty, iosAccessibilityMaxFontScaleProperty, iosAccessibilityMinFontScaleProperty } from '../../accessibility/accessibility-properties';
-import { TextBaseCommon, textProperty, formattedTextProperty, textAlignmentProperty, textDecorationProperty, textTransformProperty, textShadowProperty, letterSpacingProperty, lineHeightProperty, maxLinesProperty, resetSymbol } from './text-base-common';
+import { TextBaseCommon, textProperty, formattedTextProperty, textAlignmentProperty, textDecorationProperty, textTransformProperty, textShadowProperty, textStrokeProperty, letterSpacingProperty, lineHeightProperty, maxLinesProperty, resetSymbol } from './text-base-common';
 import { Color } from '../../color';
 import { FormattedString } from './formatted-string';
 import { Span } from './span';
 import { colorProperty, fontInternalProperty, fontScaleInternalProperty, Length } from '../styling/style-properties';
+import { StrokeCSSValues } from '../styling/css-stroke';
 import { isString, isNullOrUndefined } from '../../utils/types';
 import { iOSNativeHelper, layout } from '../../utils';
 import { Trace } from '../../trace';
@@ -247,6 +248,10 @@ export class TextBase extends TextBaseCommon {
 		this._setNativeText();
 	}
 
+	[textStrokeProperty.setNative](value: StrokeCSSValues) {
+		this._setNativeText();
+	}
+
 	[letterSpacingProperty.setNative](value: number) {
 		this._setNativeText();
 	}
@@ -306,16 +311,19 @@ export class TextBase extends TextBaseCommon {
 		const letterSpacing = this.style.letterSpacing ? this.style.letterSpacing : 0;
 		const lineHeight = this.style.lineHeight ? this.style.lineHeight : 0;
 		if (this.formattedText) {
-			(<any>this.nativeTextViewProtected).nativeScriptSetFormattedTextDecorationAndTransformLetterSpacingLineHeight(this.getFormattedStringDetails(this.formattedText), letterSpacing, lineHeight);
+			this.nativeTextViewProtected.nativeScriptSetFormattedTextDecorationAndTransformLetterSpacingLineHeight(this.getFormattedStringDetails(this.formattedText) as any, letterSpacing, lineHeight);
 		} else {
 			// console.log('setTextDecorationAndTransform...')
 			const text = getTransformedText(isNullOrUndefined(this.text) ? '' : `${this.text}`, this.textTransform);
-			(<any>this.nativeTextViewProtected).nativeScriptSetTextDecorationAndTransformTextDecorationLetterSpacingLineHeight(text, this.style.textDecoration || '', letterSpacing, lineHeight);
+			this.nativeTextViewProtected.nativeScriptSetTextDecorationAndTransformTextDecorationLetterSpacingLineHeight(text, this.style.textDecoration || '', letterSpacing, lineHeight);
 
 			if (!this.style?.color && majorVersion >= 13 && UIColor.labelColor) {
 				this._setColor(UIColor.labelColor);
 			}
 		}
+		if (this.style?.textStroke) {
+			this.nativeTextViewProtected.nativeScriptSetFormattedTextStrokeColor(Length.toDevicePixels(this.style.textStroke.width, 0), this.style.textStroke.color.ios);
+		}
 	}
 
 	createFormattedTextNative(value: FormattedString) {
diff --git a/packages/core/ui/text-base/text-base-common.ts b/packages/core/ui/text-base/text-base-common.ts
index 359aef7c8..c4d376070 100644
--- a/packages/core/ui/text-base/text-base-common.ts
+++ b/packages/core/ui/text-base/text-base-common.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import { CoreTypes } from '../../core-types';
 import { TextBase as TextBaseDefinition } from '.';
 import { Color } from '../../color';
 import { ShadowCSSValues, parseCSSShadow } from '../styling/css-shadow';
+import { StrokeCSSValues, parseCSSStroke } from '../styling/css-stroke';
 
 const CHILD_SPAN = 'Span';
 const CHILD_FORMATTED_TEXT = 'formattedText';
@@ -288,6 +289,16 @@ export const textShadowProperty = new CssProperty<Style, string | ShadowCSSValue
 });
 textShadowProperty.register(Style);
 
+export const textStrokeProperty = new CssProperty<Style, string | StrokeCSSValues>({
+	name: 'textStroke',
+	cssName: 'text-stroke',
+	affectsLayout: global.isIOS,
+	valueConverter: (value) => {
+		return parseCSSStroke(value);
+	},
+});
+textStrokeProperty.register(Style);
+
 const whiteSpaceConverter = makeParser<CoreTypes.WhiteSpaceType>(makeValidator<CoreTypes.WhiteSpaceType>('initial', 'normal', 'nowrap'));
 export const whiteSpaceProperty = new CssProperty<Style, CoreTypes.WhiteSpaceType>({
 	name: 'whiteSpace',
diff --git a/packages/types-android/src/lib/android/org.nativescript.widgets.d.ts b/packages/types-android/src/lib/android/org.nativescript.widgets.d.ts
index 1c2402846..416fde66a 100644
--- a/packages/types-android/src/lib/android/org.nativescript.widgets.d.ts
+++ b/packages/types-android/src/lib/android/org.nativescript.widgets.d.ts
@@ -403,6 +403,13 @@
                 setImageLoadedListener(listener: image.Worker.OnImageLoadedListener): void;
             }
 
+            export class StyleableTextView extends android.widget.TextView {
+                public static class: java.lang.Class<org.nativescript.widgets.StyleableTextView>;
+                public onDraw(param0: globalAndroid.graphics.Canvas): void;
+                public setTextStroke(param0: number, param1: number, param2: number): void;
+                public constructor(param0: globalAndroid.content.Context);
+            }
+           
             export enum TabIconRenderingMode {
                 original,
                 template
diff --git a/packages/types-ios/src/lib/ios/objc-x86_64/objc!UIKit.d.ts b/packages/types-ios/src/lib/ios/objc-x86_64/objc!UIKit.d.ts
index 9262e1703..741cc2d97 100644
--- a/packages/types-ios/src/lib/ios/objc-x86_64/objc!UIKit.d.ts
+++ b/packages/types-ios/src/lib/ios/objc-x86_64/objc!UIKit.d.ts
@@ -25831,8 +25831,11 @@ declare class UIView extends UIResponder implements CALayerDelegate, NSCoding, U
 	layoutSubviews(): void;
 
 	nativeScriptSetFormattedTextDecorationAndTransformLetterSpacingLineHeight(details: NSDictionary<any, any>, letterSpacing: number, lineHeight: number): void;
-
+	
+	nativeScriptSetFormattedTextStrokeColor(width: number, color: UIColor): void;
+	
 	nativeScriptSetTextDecorationAndTransformTextDecorationLetterSpacingLineHeight(text: string, textDecoration: string, letterSpacing: number, lineHeight: number): void;
+    
 
 	needsUpdateConstraints(): boolean;
 
diff --git a/packages/ui-mobile-base/android/widgets/src/main/java/org/nativescript/widgets/StyleableTextView.java b/packages/ui-mobile-base/android/widgets/src/main/java/org/nativescript/widgets/StyleableTextView.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..78fa5b2cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/ui-mobile-base/android/widgets/src/main/java/org/nativescript/widgets/StyleableTextView.java
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+package org.nativescript.widgets;
+
+import android.content.Context;
+import android.graphics.Canvas;
+import android.text.TextPaint;
+
+/**
+ * @author NathanWalker
+ */
+public class StyleableTextView extends androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatTextView {
+	int mTextStrokeWidth = 0;
+	int mTextStrokeColor = 0;
+	int mTextColor = 0;
+
+	public StyleableTextView(Context context) {
+		super(context);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
+		if (mTextStrokeWidth > 0) {
+			_applyStroke(canvas);
+		} else {
+			super.onDraw(canvas);
+		}
+	}
+
+	public void setTextStroke(int width, int color, int textColor) {
+		mTextStrokeWidth = width;
+		mTextStrokeColor = color;
+		mTextColor = textColor;
+	}
+
+	private void _applyStroke(Canvas canvas) {
+		// set paint to fill mode
+		TextPaint p = this.getPaint();
+		p.setStyle(TextPaint.Style.FILL);
+		// draw the fill part of text
+		super.onDraw(canvas);
+		// stroke color and width
+		p.setStyle(TextPaint.Style.STROKE);
+		p.setStrokeWidth(mTextStrokeWidth);
+		this.setTextColor(mTextStrokeColor);
+		// draw stroke
+		super.onDraw(canvas);
+		// draw original text color fill back (fallback to white)
+		p.setStyle(TextPaint.Style.FILL);
+		this.setTextColor(mTextColor != 0 ? mTextColor : 0xffffffff);
+	}
+}