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 guess it cannot be done. At least not with the Builder. I'm working with 1.6 and the Implementation in Builder.create() is:

public AlertDialog create() {
    final AlertDialog dialog = new AlertDialog(P.mContext);
    P.apply(dialog.mAlert);
    [...]
}

which calls the "not-theme-aware" constructor of AlertDialog, which looks like this:

protected AlertDialog(Context context) {
    this(context, com.android.internal.R.style.Theme_Dialog_Alert);
}

There is a second constructor in AlertDialog for changing themes:

protected AlertDialog(Context context, int theme) {
    super(context, theme);
    [...]
}

that the Builder just doesn't call.

If the Dialog is pretty generic anyway, I'd try writing a subclass of AlertDialog, calling the second constructor and use that class instead of the Builder-mechanism.