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EDIT~ Solution found and in my response below (last response for now) but I can’t mark it as the answer for question until two days from now. In the meantime, I’ll leave this edit here until I can mark it correct.

Where the dialog is called:

public OnClickListener fieldListener = new OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(View v) {
        FragmentManager fm = getSupportFragmentManager();
        switch (v.getId()) {
        case (0) :

        ChooseDialog ageDialog = new ChooseDialog("Age", ageEditText, act);
        ageDialog.show(fm, "fragment_edit_name");

The Dialog:

public class ChooseDialog extends DialogFragment implements DialogInterface.OnClickListener, OnMultiChoiceClickListener {

public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) activity.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
        View dialogLayout = inflater.inflate(R.layout.dialog, null);

        AlertDialog.Builder builder;
        switch (editText.getId()) {
        case (0) :
            ListView list = (ListView) dialogLayout.findViewById(R.id.listView1);
        list.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(activity, R.layout.dialoglist, 
                activity.getResources().getStringArray(R.array.ageArray)));
        list.setBackgroundColor(00000000);
        builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(activity);
        builder.setTitle(type);
        builder.setNegativeButton("Cancel", this);
        builder.setView(dialogLayout);
        /* builder.setAdapter(new ArrayAdapter<String>(activity, R.layout.dialoglist, 
                    activity.getResources().getStringArray(R.array.ageArray)), 
                    new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                    editText.setText(activity.getResources().getStringArray(R.array.ageArray)[which]);
                }} 
                );*/
        return builder.create();

Dialog.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ListView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/listView1"
    android:background="#00000000"
    android:cacheColorHint="#00000000"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
</ListView>

DialogList.xml (just the textview for the adapter):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@android:id/text1"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:gravity="center_vertical"
    android:minHeight="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeight"
    android:paddingLeft="6dip"
    android:textColor="@color/androidBlue"
    android:paddingRight="10dip"
    android:layout_weight="1"
    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />

Answer 1

My solution: change the AlertDialog.Builder constructor to use the one that takes Context, Theme:

builder = (Integer.parseInt(android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK) < 11)? new AlertDialog.Builder(activity) : 
        new AlertDialog.Builder(activity, android.R.style.Theme_Translucent);

This makes sure it loads transparent on Ginger (via the lines in XML for transparent); and Translucent on ICS. The main problem is that the dialog positive and negative buttons do not match my UI. I’ll be developing a solution there in the coming days.

Another issue is using builder.setMultiChoiceItems(), null, this); instead of a list. This makes it have an all white background on the entire dialog area. I’m hoping to uncover a theme method here as well, but other than this, all of my dialogs look the way I want now 😛

Solution found here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8687164/1231943