Android : Theme.Holo VS Theme.AppCompat

Question

I use "@android:style/Theme.Holo" as my game's theme :

But to be able to set up a snackbar widget, I have no choice but using "@style/Theme.AppCompat", otherwise I get this error message :

You need to use a Theme.AppCompat theme (or descendant) with the design library

The problem is that the "@style/Theme.AppCompat" is visually quite different :

What could I do to stay with the same visual as "@android:style/Theme.Holo", but in the same time be able to use a snackbar widget?

EDIT With the Yoann Hercouet's solution, here is the result :

What is missing?

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 25 '16 at 14:06

I finally found the solution :

AndroidManifest.xml :

<application
    android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat"
    ...

MyDialog.java :

new AlertDialog.Builder(new ContextThemeWrapper(context, android.R.style.Theme_Holo_Dialog));

Instead of :

new AlertDialog.Builder(context);

Yoann Hercouet · Answer 2 · 2016-04-25T12:55:17.200

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Try updating your app theme by changing the default style for dialogs:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    ...
    <item name="alertDialogTheme">@android:style/Theme.Holo.Dialog</item>
</style>

EDIT:

Not sure why it doesn't change anything, it worked on my app, maybe try this other way and create a custom style:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    ...
    <item name="alertDialogTheme">@style/myAlertDialogStyle</item>
</style>

<style name="myAlertDialogStyle" parent="android:style/Theme.Holo.Dialog">
    ...
</style>

edited Apr 25 '16 at 12:55

answered Apr 25 '16 at 10:50

Yoann Hercouet

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Nothing changed, the theme remains gray, including the dialogs. – Greelings Apr 25 '16 at 11:17
It is weird, you must remove any style that you applied on the dialog itself, this change will affect all the dialogs. – Yoann Hercouet Apr 25 '16 at 12:03
I did not assign any other style. But if I could just darken a bit the dialog & snackbar backgrounds, it would be perfect. – Greelings Apr 25 '16 at 12:21
I found a problem, the AppTheme is well applied, but "item name="alertDialogTheme"" does not affect the dialog's visual. – Greelings Apr 25 '16 at 12:47
I fixed this by importing android.support.v7.app.AlertDialog instead of import android.app.AlertDialog. – Greelings Apr 25 '16 at 12:53
I added in case another way but the result should actually be the same. – Yoann Hercouet Apr 25 '16 at 12:56
Thank You Yoann. I uploaded the result. What is missing? – Greelings Apr 25 '16 at 13:08
@Denis I got the same problem with the buttons, still taking the Material style, I guess you will have to change the buttons style in `myAlertDialogStyle` – Yoann Hercouet Apr 25 '16 at 13:24
Ok, no problem. But what about the title? – Greelings Apr 25 '16 at 13:32
Is it possible to assign the AppCompat Theme to the snackbar only? That way, it will solve all the problems at once. – Greelings Apr 25 '16 at 13:34
Snackbar is meant to be used on Material so not sure how to achieve that, for the title how do you display it? You use the default `setTitle` method? – Yoann Hercouet Apr 25 '16 at 13:39
I use it, but like you can see on the printscreen, it is displayed on the wrong place. – Greelings Apr 25 '16 at 13:42
I think you will have to also check and change the styles `windowTitleStyle ` and `buttonBarStyle ` :-/ – Yoann Hercouet Apr 25 '16 at 13:49

Android : Theme.Holo VS Theme.AppCompat

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