Dialog on Android KitKat seems to be cut

Question

I used dialog theme for an Activity and it works fine on Android <= 4.3 but not on the latest KitKat 4.4. Here\'s a screenshot of the problem:

Answer 1

I had the exact same problem as you describe and show in your screenshots. The problem happened only on KitKat.

In my case it happened on some popup dialogs which used a custom style. Next is a style which reproduces the problem when applie to a dialog. Notice the first line, which has the attribute parent="android.Theme", by removing that attribute the problem got solved.

To fix it I removed the parent attribute so the first line would look now like next: