Dialog skinning with AppCompat-v7 22 results in ugly shadows on api < 21

Question

I\'m using AppCompat to write a material design styled app. Since AppCompat does not affect dialogs, I\'m skinning the dialogs as such:

styles.xml:

Answer 1

ProgressDialog - Try for below android 5

dialog.getWindow().setBackgroundDrawableResource(android.R.color.transparent);

or

dialog.getWindow().clearFlags(LayoutParams.FLAG_DIM_BEHIND);