As you can see in the screenshot, my alert dialog border is not rendering correctly. It is placing a black background behind the dialog. This only happens when I resize the dialog. I’m new to android/monodroid so I don’t really even know where to start looking for a cure. You can see that the toast message renders the border properly (with a semi-transparent border).
Any thoughts on how I can get rid of the black background behind the dialog border ?

resizing code:
Dialog dialog = db.Create();
WindowManagerLayoutParams p = new WindowManagerLayoutParams();
p.CopyFrom(dialog.Window.Attributes);
p.Width = 900;
p.Height = WindowManagerLayoutParams.WrapContent;
dialog.Show();
dialog.Window.Attributes = p;
I would advice to use the DialogFragment instead of the older dialog, at work we have had quite a few problems with the older dialogs.
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/DialogFragment.html
And this problem in specific on a few devices.