Change Theme.Dialog to look like Theme.Light.Dialog in Android

Question

There is no Theme.Light.Dialog to use with the rest of my project that is using Theme.Light.

How can I change Theme.Dialog to

Answer 1

This is good, thanks! I just changed it a bit: when I run what you suggested, the entire screen is painted with the back color and the dialog does not look as it should (with the previous activity dimmed).

So instead of using

@android:windowBackground

just use

@android:background

Answer 2

Looks like I got it working.

<color name="black">#FF000000</color>
<color name="whitegrey">#FFF2F2F2</color>

<style name="dialog_light" parent="@android:style/Theme.Dialog">
    <item name="@android:windowBackground">@color/whitegrey</item>
    <item name="@android:textColor">@color/black</item>        
</style>

Answer 3

Further to the above, to avoid making up colors, I did this:

<!-- Makes a "light" equivalent of Theme.Dialog -->
<style name="dialog_light" parent="@android:style/Theme.Dialog">
    <item name="@android:background">@android:color/background_light</item>
    <item name="@android:textColor">@android:color/primary_text_light</item>    
</style>