If you want your style to be used as theme ,you have to put your style in theme.xml not style.xml.This you can find developer's guide also.
On Oct 17, 6:30 pm, Amit <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a PreferenceActivity which displays items in a list view. I > applied theme as Theme.Dialog in AndroidManifest.xml and it looks like > a dialog with black color background. To change the background I did > the following changes: > > style.xml > > <style name="CustomTheme" parent="android:Theme.Dialog"> > <item name="android:windowBackground">@color/bg_color</item> > <item name="android:colorBackground">@color/bg_color</item> > </style> > > color.xml > > <color name="bg_color">@android:color/white</color> > > AndroidManifest.xml > > <activity android:name=".PrefActivity" > android:theme="@style/CustomTheme" > android:excludeFromRecents="true" > </activity> > > Now, neither I see the screen as dialog(appears as full screen) nor > the color as white. Please help me if I am missing something here. Or > do we have a better alternative to change the color for the above > mentioned scenario. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en

