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

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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 had such crash on Samsung devices even though the activity did use Theme.AppCompat. The root cause was related to weird optimizations on Samsung side:

- if one activity of your app has theme not inherited from Theme.AppCompat
- and it has also `android:launchMode="singleTask"`
- then all the activities that are launched from it will share the same Theme

My solution was just removing android:launchMode="singleTask"