Android 6.0 Dialog text doesn't appear

Question

I updated my phone to Android 6.0 and I have these 2 problems with dialogs:

1)The title is shown but the messages isn't for alert dialog(SOLVED):

        new AlertDialog.Builder(context).setTitle("Title").setMessage("Message");

2)Also custom dialog fragment's title is not shown(NOT SOLVED):

        getDialog().setTitle("Title");

There was not such a problem in lollipop or in older versions, the problem appeared only after updating my phone to marshmallow.

How to solve the problem?

can give some screenshot because from code only problem we see there is no dialog.show. and provide some more code. — Piyush, Oct 20 '15 at 06:07
Did you found a solution? I have the same problem message text is white, on white background. I know that solution must be changing the theme for AlertDialog in styles. — Eu Vid, Oct 30 '15 at 08:35
if the answer solved your problem, please mark it as accepted. — Yash Ladia, Dec 23 '15 at 12:43

Oleksandr · Answer 1 · 2015-10-21T10:48:10.430

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Use constructor with theme for Lollipop and newer android versions:

Dark theme

    AlertDialog.Builder builder;
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
        builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(context, android.R.style.Theme_Material_Dialog_Alert);
    } else {
        builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(context);
    }

And for Light theme

    AlertDialog.Builder builder;
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
        builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(context, android.R.style.Theme_Material_Light_Dialog_Alert);
    } else {
        builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(context);
    }

edited Oct 21 '15 at 10:48

answered Oct 21 '15 at 10:36

Oleksandr

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Thanks Alexandr. This works fine for AlertDialog.Builder case. Is there any way to apply for Custom Dialog (extends Dialog classes and not about Fragments) cases. – jettimadhuChowdary Feb 25 '16 at 05:45
@jettimadhuChowdary, when you create custom dialog use `dialog = new CustomDialog(this,android.R.style.Theme_Material_Dialog_alert);` – Oleksandr Feb 26 '16 at 10:30
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This is not a good approach if you have a lot of dialogs. @Stephen answer is the best one. – David Velásquez Dec 16 '16 at 23:49

score 31 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 06 '16 at 00:20

I've come across a few answers that say that you should use the following in your app theme:

<item name="android:alertDialogTheme">@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog.Alert</item>

While that is correct, it wasn't working in all places for me. Eventually, I realized that in some places I was using the regular AlertDialog builder and in other places I was using the support builder. If you are using the support AlertDialog, make sure to also include the following in your theme:

<item name="alertDialogTheme">@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog.Alert</item>

This answer should be pushed to top. – Peter Zhao Nov 10 '16 at 07:05 — Peter Zhao, Nov 10 '16 at 07:05

score 18 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 17 '15 at 11:08

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Just put this in your styles file inside your Base Theme style tag and you are good to go

<item name="android:alertDialogTheme">@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog.Alert</item>

answered Dec 17 '15 at 11:08

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I think this solution is better than check and change theme in everywhere that we want to create a `AlertDialog`. – SadeghAlavizadeh Aug 31 '16 at 08:41

score 10 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 26 '15 at 08:49

Answer for 2), we need to call setStyle() before onCreateDialog() because theme is used in onCreateDialog()

@NonNull
@Override
public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
        setStyle(STYLE_NORMAL, android.R.style.Theme_Material_Light_Dialog_Alert);
    }
    Dialog dialog = super.onCreateDialog(savedInstanceState);
    dialog.setTitle(R.string.dialog_title);
    return dialog;
}

score 7 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 16 '16 at 16:24

i tried to fix this problem by making a style of my own.

your dialog object should be like this and your style pointed to this Dialog will be written below

new AlertDialog.Builder(new ContextThemeWrapper(Context, R.style.Dialog))
            .setTitle("Title")
            .setMessage("Sample Message ...").show();

R.style.Dialog ::

<style name="Dialog">
    <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/primary_text</item>
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/primary_color</item>
</style>

Colors ::

<color name="primary_text">#212121</color>
<color name="primary_color">#2196f3</color>

finally the output should be something like this

Note : "android:textColorPrimary" goes for dialog setMessage and "android:textColor" goes for dialog setTitle ; i do not use setPositive and setNegative button and listener in my dialog object but you can see them in the picture if you want you can make your own dialog object.

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 20 '15 at 07:32

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new AlertDialog.Builder(context)
    .setTitle("Delete entry")
    .setMessage("Are you sure you want to delete this entry?")
    .setPositiveButton(android.R.string.yes, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) { 
            // continue with delete
        }
     })
    .setNegativeButton(android.R.string.no, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) { 
            // do nothing
        }
     })
    .setIcon(android.R.drawable.ic_dialog_alert)
     .show();

Hope this will help you.............

answered Oct 20 '15 at 07:32

Amaresh Jana

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it is working for me....OK i will check it one more time and come back to you..... – Amaresh Jana Oct 20 '15 at 08:06
is your app's target api 23? – Veka Oct 20 '15 at 08:07
it is working fine in my application and i have checked it and it is doing fine....... in android api 23 (NEXUS 5 newly updated to android Marshmello) – Amaresh Jana Oct 20 '15 at 08:11
title is not getting set in 6.0 ... any clues? – Kaveesh Kanwal May 27 '16 at 12:41

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Oct 20 '15 at 08:46

I suspect that you are ending up showing white text on a white background! (Looking at the screenshot, the (i) icon is not showing up well either, suggesting that it was designed to be shown on a background other than white.

You can use the constructor public AlertDialog.Builder (Context context, int themeResId) to ensure you are using a specific theme to style your dialog, where the Theme_Material_Dialog is probably what you want.

score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Mar 18 '16 at 14:53

Maybe your main text color is the same as dialog background color, in that case in your styles.xml use (just an example):

<style name="AlertDialog" parent="@android:style/Theme.Material.Light.Dialog.Alert">
    <item name="android:textColor">#000000</item>
</style>

and in dialog creation:

new AlertDialog.Builder(
        new ContextThemeWrapper(getContext(), R.style.AlertDialog))
).setMessage("test");

score 1 · Answer 9 · edited Nov 24 '17 at 21:05

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When using DialogFragment you need to

Add style

<style name="CustomDialog" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog">
    <item name="android:windowNoTitle">false</item>
</style>

In your DialogFragment add getTheme

public class CustomDialogFragment extends DialogFragment{
    public int getTheme() { 
        return R.style.CustomDialogFragment; 
    }
    .
    .
    .

And that's it!

edited Nov 24 '17 at 21:05

Mark Rotteveel

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answered Jan 19 '17 at 16:30

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Oct 20 '15 at 08:08

@Override
    public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        // Use the Builder class for convenient dialog construction
        AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(getActivity());
        builder.setMessage(R.string.dialog_fire_missiles)
               .setPositiveButton(R.string.fire, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                   public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
                       // FIRE ZE MISSILES!
                   }
               })
               .setNegativeButton(R.string.cancel, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                   public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
                       // User cancelled the dialog
                   }
               });
        // Create the AlertDialog object and return it
        return builder.create();
    }

Once check this hope this will work.......

Arkadiusz Cieśliński · Answer 11 · 2015-11-10T20:44:38.343

In my case all dialogs had the same color as fonts (title & message). What I have done to fix this state was the change of the color attribute in my theme. I copied the xml theme file into the 'res/values-v22' and set different color for marshmallow.

<resources>
    <style name="LywCompatTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
        <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@android:color/tertiary_text_dark</item>
    </style>
</resources>

or only for dialogs

<resources>
    <style name="LywCompatTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
        <item name="android:alertDialogTheme">@style/LywAlertDialogStyle</item>
    </style>
    <style name="LywAlertDialogStyle" parent="Base.Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog.Alert">
        <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/lyw_secondary_text_color</item>
    </style>
</resources>

Android 6.0 Dialog text doesn't appear

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