Dialog Button Theme

[ricknout]

Hi there,

It would be great if the SpectrumDialog adopted the theme of the current app / activity. I am specifically thinking of the dialog positive / negative buttons. My app uses a colorAccent of MD_Pink_500, and spectrum looks a little out of place with the default MD_TEAL_500 :-(

[nwalters512]

I'm trying to figure out how to reference the attributes of the application that the library is included in (specifically colorAccent), but so far I can't find any way to do that. Do you know of any other open-source libraries that adopt the theme from the including application?

[ricknout]

Hi @nwalters512 - for me, the only thing I believe needs colouring are the two dialog action buttons. This might be a way to do this:

Programmatically get the accent color in the following way:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27611173/how-to-get-accent-color-programmatically (replacing mContext with getApplication() / getActivity(), I would say).

Access the dialog buttons and set the text color, similar to this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16469096/android-custom-dialogfragment-custom-positive-negative-button-design

No idea if this will work, but it seems like it might. I'll fork your project and try it out, will let you know how it goes.

[consp1racy]

The correct way to do this is to override alertDialogTheme attribute in your activity theme:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
    <item name="colorAccent">#f00</item>
    <item name="alertDialogTheme">@style/AlertDialogTheme</item>
</style>

<style name="AlertDialogTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog.Alert">
    <item name="colorAccent">#f00</item>
</style>

alertDialogTheme is picked by any AlertDialog.Builder (one of which is used internally in SpectrumDialog).