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 Al

Answer 1

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>

Answer 2

parent="android:style/Theme.Light"

Answer 3

Try this:

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

Answer 4

This is what I did. And it worked for me

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

Answer 5

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