MapFragment gets a dark overlay when used in DialogActivity

Question

I\'m trying to show a MapFragment of the Android Maps v2 API in an Activity with the @android:style/Theme.DeviceDefault.Light.Di

Answer 1

To add on to Audrel's solution, one can dynamically un-dim the dialog's window whenever the map is shown and dim it back when the map is gone (e.g. when your dialog has multiple pages, one of them is a map):

private float mDimAmount;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    WindowManager.LayoutParams params = getWindow().getAttributes();
    mDimAmount = params.dimAmount; // remember original dim amount
    ...
}

private void undim() {
    WindowManager.LayoutParams params = getWindow().getAttributes();
    params.dimAmount = 0.0f;
    getWindow().setAttributes(params);
}

private void dim() {
    WindowManager.LayoutParams params = getWindow().getAttributes();
    params.dimAmount = mDimAmount;
    getWindow().setAttributes(params);
}

Still just another workaround rather than tackling the root cause...