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Lawrence Choy
Lawrence Choy

Reputation: 6108

Android theme text color conflicts with alert dialog title color

I am customizing my android app by defining theme in styles.xml. I would like to apply a basic text color to all text of my app, but I want to keep the appearance of AlertDialog as default (Holo.Light).

styles.xml

<resources>

    <style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light.NoActionBar">
        <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
        <item name="android:textColor">@android:color/holo_red_dark</item>
        <item name="android:alertDialogTheme">@style/AlertDialogStyle</item>
    </style>

    <style name="AlertDialogStyle" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.Dialog">
        <item name="android:windowBackground">@android:color/transparent</item>
        <item name="android:windowContentOverlay">@null</item>
        <item name="android:windowTitleStyle">@style/DialogWindowTitle</item>
    </style>

    <style name="DialogWindowTitle">
        <item name="android:maxLines">1</item>
        <item name="android:scrollHorizontally">true</item>
        <item name="android:textAppearance">@style/DialogWindowTitleAppearance</item>
    </style>

    <style name="DialogWindowTitleAppearance" parent="@android:style/TextAppearance.Holo.DialogWindowTitle">
        <item name="android:textColor">@android:color/holo_purple</item>
    </style>

</resources>

However, the color defined in AppTheme overrides the purple color:

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If I remove the line <item name="android:textColor">@android:color/holo_red_dark</item> in AppTheme, the text color of the title changes correctly. enter image description here

So my question is: How can I define a text color for my app theme, while setting another color (or preserving system default color) to the dialog title text?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3013

Answers (3)

babay
babay

Reputation: 4844

define 

<item name="android:textAppearanceLarge">...</item>

in your AlertDialogStyle

Upvotes: 1

Lewis Strasburg
Lewis Strasburg

Reputation: 31

Great work with drilling down to the specific text you want to change. The fact it isn't working looks like a bug to me. If you want a built-in alert dialog window instead of a custom themed one, you can use this function when you build an alert box:

AlertDialog.Builder(Context context, int theme)

"theme" can be AlertDialog.ThemeTraditional or some other AlertDialog theme constant. I imagine you've moved on by now, maybe making your own alert dialog activity to replace it, but the above was an adequate workaround for me (I had white text on light grey background, so I had to do something).

Upvotes: 0

s0l
s0l

Reputation: 76

in Your AndroidManifest.xml set another style to your Activity 

<activity
    android:name="com.my.sample.Activity"
    android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.Dialog"
    android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize"
    android:label="@string/my_activity_name">
</activity>

Upvotes: 0

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