Text Of EditTextPreference Turns White On Orientation Change

Question

I'm using SettingsActivity as preference activity for my application like so:

public class SettingsActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        if (PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this).getBoolean(getString(R.string.dark_theme_key), false)) {
            setTheme(R.style.AppThemeDark);
        } else {
            setTheme(R.style.AppThemeLight);
        }

        if (savedInstanceState == null) {
            getFragmentManager().beginTransaction()
                    .replace(android.R.id.content, new SettingsFragment())
                    .commit();
        }
    }

    public static class SettingsFragment extends PreferenceFragment {
        @Override
        public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.app_preferences);

            ...
        }
    }
}

If I use getActivity().recreate(); (I have a SwitchPreference for dark and light theme. Dark theme is Theme.AppCompat and light is same but with .Light. If I change the theme I use recreate.) or change orientation of the screen (Resulting in onCreate of course), I get a weird problem when I'm on my light theme.

The problem is as follows -after a recreate, the text content of the EditTextPreference's turn white instead of black.

If I simply ignore savedInstanceState == null and just create a new fragment every time on SettingsActivity.onCreate, I lose the "screen state" (for example if I was scrolled all the way down before, after recreate Im scrolled back to the top. If I had a EditTextPreference open before, after recreate its closed).

I'm not sure how to restore a fragment screen state in case of recreation, or why my problem even occurs. Would appreciate help.