recreate()
(as mentioned by TPReal) will only restart current activity, but the previous activities will still be in back stack and theme will not be applied to them.
So, another solution for this problem is to recreate the task stack completely, like this:
TaskStackBuilder.create(getActivity())
.addNextIntent(new Intent(getActivity(), MainActivity.class))
.addNextIntent(getActivity().getIntent())
.startActivities();
EDIT:
Just put the code above after you perform changing of theme on the UI or somewhere else. All your activities should have method setTheme()
called before onCreate()
, probably in some parent activity. It is also a normal approach to store the theme chosen in SharedPreferences
, read it and then set using setTheme()
method.