diff --git a/tests/app/ui/list-view/list-view-tests.ts b/tests/app/ui/list-view/list-view-tests.ts
index b8305cc36..a01b86fe5 100644
--- a/tests/app/ui/list-view/list-view-tests.ts
+++ b/tests/app/ui/list-view/list-view-tests.ts
@@ -558,6 +558,38 @@ export class ListViewTest extends testModule.UITest<listViewModule.ListView> {
         }
     }
 
+    public test_RemovingChildViewsBeforeListView() {
+        var listView = this.testView;
+        var converterCalledCounter = 0;
+
+        var testConverter = function (value) {
+            converterCalledCounter++;
+            return value;
+        }
+
+        app.resources["testConverter"] = testConverter;
+
+        var listViewModel = new observable.Observable();
+        listViewModel.set("items", [1, 2, 3]);
+        listView.bindingContext = listViewModel;
+
+        listView.bind({ sourceProperty: "items", targetProperty: "items" });
+        listView.itemTemplate = "<StackLayout><Label id=\"testLabel\" text=\"{{ $value, $value | testConverter }}\" /></StackLayout>";
+
+        this.waitUntilListViewReady();
+
+        if (platform.isAndroid) {
+            // simulates Angular way of removing views
+            (<any>listView)._realizedItems.forEach((view, nativeView, map) => {
+                console.log("view: " + view);
+                listView._removeView(view);
+            });
+            this.tearDown();
+            // should not crash
+            TKUnit.assertTrue(true);
+        }
+    }
+
     public test_no_memory_leak_when_items_is_regular_array() {
         let weakRef = new WeakRef<listViewModule.ListView>(this.testView);
         weakRef.get().items = FEW_ITEMS;
diff --git a/tns-core-modules/ui/list-view/list-view.android.ts b/tns-core-modules/ui/list-view/list-view.android.ts
index 1fba3d273..988fabb45 100644
--- a/tns-core-modules/ui/list-view/list-view.android.ts
+++ b/tns-core-modules/ui/list-view/list-view.android.ts
@@ -108,7 +108,10 @@ export class ListView extends common.ListView {
                 callback(view);
             }
             else {
-                callback(view.parent);
+                // in some cases (like item is unloaded from another place (like angular) view.parent becomes undefined)
+                if (view.parent) {
+                    callback(view.parent);
+                }
             }
         });
     }
@@ -124,12 +127,13 @@ export class ListView extends common.ListView {
     private clearRealizedCells(): void {
         // clear the cache
         this._realizedItems.forEach((view, nativeView, map) => {
-            // This is to clear the StackLayout that is used to wrap non LayoutBase & ProxyViewContainer instances.
-            if (!(view.parent instanceof ListView)) {
-                this._removeView(view.parent);
+            if (view.parent) {
+                // This is to clear the StackLayout that is used to wrap non LayoutBase & ProxyViewContainer instances.
+                if (!(view.parent instanceof ListView)) {
+                    this._removeView(view.parent);
+                }
+                view.parent._removeView(view);
             }
-
-            view.parent._removeView(view);
         });
 
         this._realizedItems.clear();