Custom Support Dialog Fragment text is the wrong color

Question

If I put a TextView in a custom dialog box, the text will be black by default.

Unfortunately, the support fragment dialogs backgrounds are dark gray. Black on gray is very hard to read.

I could change the TextView to white or something like android:textColor="?android:attr/textColorPrimaryInverseDisableOnly". But the dialog boxes on the new android (Holo Light) are white. So it will be white on white.

I could use a hack like forcing it to be white on old versions of Android and forcing it to be black on newer versions of Android, but I'd rather find a more elegant solution.

Is there a way to change the TextView to imitate the same text that's normally put on the support DialogFragment? I'm using Action Bar Sherlock, if that matters.

Answer 1

Try this

alertDialogBuilder.setInverseBackgroundForced( true )

works fine in my case on pre-Honeycomb devices and newer ones. The title still appears in a darker color but the main text is clearly readable on all devices.