You need to use a Theme.AppCompat theme (or descendant) with this activity

Question

Android Studio 0.4.5

Android documentation for creating custom dialog boxes: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/dialogs.html

If you want a custom d

Answer 1

I was experiencing this problem even though my Theme was an AppCompat Theme and my Activity was an AppCompatActivity (or Activity, as suggested on other's answers). So I cleaned, rebuild and rerun the project.

(Build -> Clean Project ; Build -> Rebuild Project ; Run -> Run)

It may seem dumb, but now it works great!

Just hope it helps!