How to use and style new AlertDialog from appCompa

Question

I am trying to migrate from default android AlertDialog to the new one included in appCompat-22.1 So far I understand you only have to import android.support.v7.app.AlertDialog package in order to use it.

But how can I style it? For example change the positive/negative button colors, title color, message color and background color?

Answer 1

To use a theme for all the application, and don't use the second parameter to style your Dialog

<style name="MyTheme" parent="Base.Theme.AppCompat.Light">
    <item name="alertDialogTheme">@style/dialog</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/accent</item>
</style>

<style name="dialog" parent="Base.Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog.Alert">
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/accent</item>
</style>

On my app using a color accent in theme don't show the alertDialog's buttons with the theme colorAccent I have to add a dialog style in the theme.

Answer 2

When creating the AlertDialog you can set a theme to use.

Example - Creating the Dialog

AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this, R.style.MyAlertDialogStyle);
builder.setTitle("AppCompatDialog");
builder.setMessage("Lorem ipsum dolor...");
builder.setPositiveButton("OK", null);
builder.setNegativeButton("Cancel", null);
builder.show();

styles.xml - Custom style

<style name="MyAlertDialogStyle" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog.Alert">
    <!-- Used for the buttons -->
    <item name="colorAccent">#FFC107</item>
    <!-- Used for the title and text -->
    <item name="android:textColorPrimary">#FFFFFF</item>
    <!-- Used for the background -->
    <item name="android:background">#4CAF50</item>
</style>

Result

Edit

In order to change the Appearance of the Title, you can do the following. First add a new style:

<style name="MyTitleTextStyle">
    <item name="android:textColor">#FFEB3B</item>
    <item name="android:textAppearance">@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Title</item>
</style>

afterwards simply reference this style in your MyAlertDialogStyle:

<style name="MyAlertDialogStyle" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog.Alert">
    ...
    <item name="android:windowTitleStyle">@style/MyTitleTextStyle</item>
</style>

This way you can define a different textColor for the message via android:textColorPrimary and a different for the title via the style.

Answer 3

If you want to use the new android.support.v7.app.AlertDialog and have different colors for the buttons and also have a custom layout then have a look at my https://gist.github.com/JoachimR/6bfbc175d5c8116d411e

@NonNull
@Override
public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    View v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.custom_layout, null);

    initDialogUi(v);

    final AlertDialog d = new AlertDialog.Builder(activity, R.style.AppCompatAlertDialogStyle)
            .setTitle(getString(R.string.some_dialog_title))
            .setCancelable(true)
            .setPositiveButton(activity.getString(R.string.some_dialog_title_btn_positive),
                    new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                        @Override
                        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                            doSomething();
                            dismiss();
                        }
                    })
            .setNegativeButton(activity.getString(R.string.some_dialog_title_btn_negative),
                    new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                        @Override
                        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                            dismiss();
                        }
                    })
            .setView(v)
            .create();

    // change color of positive button         
    d.setOnShowListener(new DialogInterface.OnShowListener() {
        @Override
        public void onShow(DialogInterface dialog) {
            Button b = d.getButton(DialogInterface.BUTTON_POSITIVE);
            b.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.colorPrimary));
        }
    });

    return d;
}

Answer 4

    <item name="editTextColor">@color/white</item>
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/white</item>
    <item name="android:textColorHint">@color/gray</item>
    <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/gray</item>
    <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/gray</item>
    <item name="colorControlActivated">@color/white</item>
    <item name="colorControlHighlight">#30FFFFFF</item>

Answer 5

Follow @reVerse answer but in my case, I already had some property in my AppTheme like

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    ...
    <item name="android:textColor">#111</item>
    <item name="android:textSize">13sp</item>
</style>

So my dialog will look like

I solved it by

1) Change the import from android.app.AlertDialog to android.support.v7.app.AlertDialog
2) I override 2 property in AppTheme with null value

<style name="MyAlertDialogStyle" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog.Alert">
    <!-- Used for the buttons -->
    <item name="colorAccent">#FFC107</item>
    <!-- Used for the title and text -->
    <item name="android:textColorPrimary">#FFFFFF</item>
    <!-- Used for the background -->
    <item name="android:background">#4CAF50</item>


    <item name="android:textColor">@null</item>
    <item name="android:textSize">@null</item>
</style>

.

AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(mContext, R.style.MyAlertDialogStyle);

Hope it help another people