Button style in AlertDialogs

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Published on 2010-03-26T14:41:08Z Indexed on 2010/03/26 14:43 UTC
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Does anyone know how to override the default style for AlertDialog buttons? I've looked through the Android source for themes and styles and experimented with different things but I haven't been able to find a way that works.

What I've got below works for changing the backgrounds, but doesn't do anything with the buttons. myTheme is applied to the whole <application> via the manifest. (Some other items were deleted for clarity, but they only relate to the title bar.)

<style name="myTheme" parent="android:Theme">
    <item name="android:buttonStyle">@style/customButtonStyle</item>
    <item name="android:alertDialogStyle">@style/dialogAlertTheme</item>
</style>

<style name="dialogAlertTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Dialog.Alert">
    <item name="android:fullDark">@drawable/dialog_loading_background</item>
    <item name="android:topDark">@drawable/dialog_alert_top</item>
    <item name="android:centerDark">@drawable/dialog_alert_center</item>
    <item name="android:bottomDark">@drawable/dialog_alert_bottom</item>
    <!-- this last line makes no difference to the buttons -->
    <item name="android:buttonStyle">@style/customButtonStyle</item> 
</style>

Any ideas?

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