android EditText blends into background

Question

My app uses Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar as the parent theme.

When I use my Android 3.2 tablet emulator, the EditText shape is almost impossible to se

Answer 1

You can have an action bar and still see the EditText light grey background watermark if you use themes like below:

AndroidManifest.xml

styles.xml

This works for the theme "android:Theme.Holo.Light" but not for the theme "android:Theme.Holo".