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.