Custom seekbar with material design

Question

I've got a seekbar in a layout for a custom dialog preference. I changed my styles.xml to use the new material desing. It works because it change text and checkboxes of my settings but I can't apply the color to my seekbar. It works only if I put a seekbar in an activity, it means I have to do something in my custom layout but I don't know what. I post styles.xml and the layout with the seekbar:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>

    <style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="android:Theme.Material">

        <!-- Main theme colors -->
        <!-- your app's branding color (for the app bar) -->
        <item name="android:colorPrimary">#FFFF4444</item>
        <!-- darker variant of colorPrimary (for status bar, contextual app bars) -->
        <item name="android:colorPrimaryDark">#FFCC0000</item>
        <!-- theme UI controls like checkboxes and text fields -->
        <item name="android:colorAccent">#FFFF00</item>
    </style>

    <!-- Application theme. -->
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">
    </style>

</resources>

custom layout for dialog preference:

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

    <SeekBar
        android:id="@+id/seek_bar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginBottom="6dip"
        android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Material"
        android:layout_marginTop="6dip" />

</LinearLayout>

Answer 1

With Lollipop it's no more needed at all. The colors are applied well even in custom preference dialogs ~greywolf82

I want to share few custom Libs

You can use this Material Design lib ,this also includes many other widgets.

or

Custom seek bar Lib DiscreteSeekBar

Answer 2

You don't need to specify the android:theme attribute on your SeekBar element. Instead, you should set up the default dialog and alert dialog themes in your AppBaseTheme:

<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="android:Theme.Material">
    ...
    <item name="android:dialogTheme">@style/AppDialogTheme</item>
    <item name="android:alertDialogTheme">@style/AppAlertTheme</item>
</style>

<style name="AppDialogTheme" parent="android:Theme.Material.Dialog">
    <item name="android:colorPrimary">#FFFF4444</item>
    <item name="android:colorPrimaryDark">#FFCC0000</item>
    <item name="android:colorAccent">#FFFF00</item>
</style>

<!-- This should extend Theme.Material.Dialog.Alert, but that style was
     incorrectly hidden in L-preview. It will be fixed in a future release.
     You can approximate the style using the last two MinWidth attributes.-->
<style name="AppAlertTheme" parent="android:Theme.Material.Dialog">
    <item name="android:colorPrimary">#FFFF4444</item>
    <item name="android:colorPrimaryDark">#FFCC0000</item>
    <item name="android:colorAccent">#FFFF00</item>
    <item name="android:windowMinWidthMajor">65%</item>
    <item name="android:windowMinWidthMinor">95%</item>
</style>