How to change PreferenceActivity theme?

Question

I\'m trying to change the theme for the PreferenceActivity in my app and I just can\'t get it to work.

This is the xml:

Answer 1

Have you tried applying the theme on the activity tag in the manifest? This is how I have done it before -

EDIT:

The other option you could try is to override onApplyThemeResource(Resources.Theme theme, int resid, boolean first). Looking at the android source code the setTheme will internally call method.

/**
 * Called by {@link #setTheme} and {@link #getTheme} to apply a theme
 * resource to the current Theme object.  Can override to change the
 * default (simple) behavior.  This method will not be called in multiple
 * threads simultaneously.
 *
 * @param theme The Theme object being modified.
 * @param resid The theme style resource being applied to theme.
 * @param first Set to true if this is the first time a style is being
 *              applied to theme.
 */
protected void onApplyThemeResource(Resources.Theme theme, int resid, boolean first) {
    theme.applyStyle(resid, true);
}