Set Android Theme.Light for Alert Dialog

Question

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 :(

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 10 '11 at 17:01

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change parent="android:Theme.Light" to parent="@android:style/Theme.Light"

edited Nov 10 '11 at 17:01

Adam Rackis

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answered Jul 18 '11 at 07:28

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Corrected it. Still no change. – Arnab Chakraborty Jul 18 '11 at 07:30
does it work? also, how do you set it for actionBarSherlock dialogs? – android developer May 19 '13 at 07:26

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 01 '12 at 20:11

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>

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 23 '16 at 11:03

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Try this:

<style name="popup_theme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog.Alert">

answered Aug 23 '16 at 11:03

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score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Nov 10 '11 at 19:12

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parent="android:style/Theme.Light"

edited Nov 10 '11 at 19:12

Nightfirecat

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answered Nov 10 '11 at 04:40

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 29 '17 at 17:14

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This is what I did. And it worked for me

AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(context,R.style.Theme_AppCompat_Light_Dialog);

answered Dec 29 '17 at 17:14

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Set Android Theme.Light for Alert Dialog

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