Question

For clarification: I want all the custom dialogs to look like system default dialogs: for example, when user is using htc sense, the dialog should match htc sense dialog style, when user is using samsung with official customasation, the dialog should look like it. I want to go as native as possible. I am familiar that there are possibilities to modify the dialog, but I’m looking for a way to reference to the style the system uses and create a dialog with that.

What I have:

What I would like to achieve:

Code for my dialog layout which I invoke with dialog.setContentView(...):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
style="@android:style/Theme.Dialog"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >

<ListView
    android:id="@+id/listView1"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginLeft="10dip"
    android:layout_marginRight="10dip" >
</ListView>

</LinearLayout>

As you can see setting the style="@android:style/Theme.Dialog isn’t helping. Any ideas what might be helping?

(I am familiar that there is already such a question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6746535/android-custom-dialog-but-with-look-and-feel-of-default-one but there isn’t an accepted answer)

Answer 1

You can build a native-look like dialog for one UI, but when another user has some other ROM/modified UI, then the dialog doesn’t look like a native one to hem/her. There isn’t a built in functionality, to access system dialog resources and populate all dialogs from native layouts only.