Set Android Theme.Light for Alert Dialog
Solution 1
change parent="android:Theme.Light"
to parent="@android:style/Theme.Light"
Solution 2
This took me a while to figure out as well.
The issue at hand is that Theme.Light and Theme.Holo.Light and such are designed around the activity. A dialog theme needs to be based around a theme such as @android:style/Theme.Dialog which contains properties specific to dialogs.
<style name="popup_theme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Dialog">
Try overriding the Theme.Dialog using things like:
<item name="android:textAppearance">?android:attr/textAppearanceInverse</item>
Solution 3
Try this:
<style name="popup_theme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog.Alert">
Solution 4
parent="android:style/Theme.Light"
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Arnab Chakraborty
Began with C++, became a fan of C, went through Java out of curiosity and am now stuck with Android & ASP.NET. Have fallen in love with design principles and software engineering in general.
Updated on December 30, 2020Comments
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Arnab Chakraborty over 3 years
I am trying to set the android Theme.Light theme for my alert dialog, but with no success so far. After reading a few tutorials I gathered that using AlertDialog.Builder we cannot set the theme directly in the constructor (atleast in API level 7).
The alternate solution that I found is using a ContextThemeWrapper, which everyone assured would solve my problem. So I coded something like this:
AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder( new ContextThemeWrapper(context, R.style.popup_theme));
I described my theme in the values folder:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <resources> <color name="back_color">#ffffffff</color> <style name="popup_theme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Light"> <item name="android:windowBackground">@color/back_color</item> <item name="android:colorBackground">@color/back_color</item> </style>
Unfortunately I still get the default Theme.Dialog.Alert theme. Can anyone tell me why? Where am I going wrong?
EDIT: If you do not know the answer to my question, please vote up. I have a bad habit of posting questions which get stuck :(
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Arnab Chakraborty almost 13 yearsCorrected it. Still no change.
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android developer about 11 yearsdoes it work? also, how do you set it for actionBarSherlock dialogs?