How to change theme for AlertDialog

Question

I was wondering if someone could help me out. I am trying to create a custom AlertDialog. In order to do this, I added the following line of code in styles.xml

Answer 1

I have written an article in my blog on how to configure the layout of an AlertDialog with XML style files. The main problem is that you need different style definitions for different layout parameters. Here is a boilerplate based on the AlertDialog style of Holo Light Platform version 19 for a style file that should cover a bunch of the standard layout aspects like text sizes and background colors.