How to Change the Color Behind Android Dialog

Question

I would like to change the color of the dimmed background that surrounds an Android dialog (not the Window background drawable) programmatically. I am using a dialog themed activity. I do not want to dim it, nor blur it.

If you imagine a dialog with three buttons, I would like to have it do something like this:

• Click A: background to translucent red
• Click B: background to translucent yellow
• Click C: background to translucent green

Answer 1

I'm not sure you can change the color of the background. The dimming is controlled by the dimAmount field of the layout for the dialog window (as well as the FLAG_DIM_BEHIND flag). dimAmount is just a float between 0.0 and 1.0 that controls the amount of dimming (transparent to totally opaque). I think it's just an alpha blend of the existing background; there's no control of coloring as far as I've been able to find.