How to use and style new AlertDialog from appCompat 22.1 and above

Question

I am trying to migrate from default android AlertDialog to the new one included in appCompat-22.1 So far I understand you only have to import android.sup

Answer 1

When creating the AlertDialog you can set a theme to use.

Example - Creating the Dialog

AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this, R.style.MyAlertDialogStyle);
builder.setTitle("AppCompatDialog");
builder.setMessage("Lorem ipsum dolor...");
builder.setPositiveButton("OK", null);
builder.setNegativeButton("Cancel", null);
builder.show();

styles.xml - Custom style

Result

Edit

In order to change the Appearance of the Title, you can do the following. First add a new style:

afterwards simply reference this style in your MyAlertDialogStyle:

This way you can define a different textColor for the message via android:textColorPrimary and a different for the title via the style.