Using AlertDialog style of Kitkat on Lollipop based phones

Question

I have the same app running perfectly on both Lollipop based android phone as well as a Jellybean based android phone. However the alert dialog styles ( default) are not the same, and the dialog appear ugly in Lollipop phones.

A simple example:

In Jellybean based phone :

In Lollipop based phone :

Is it possible for me to use the alert dialog styles of older Android OS on my Lollipop based phones?

How to do this in the app programmatically?

Answer 1

You can specify the Dialog's theme by setting the second constructor parameter of your AlertDialog or AlertDialog.Builder to AlertDialog.THEME_HOLO_LIGHT:

new AlertDialog.Builder(context, AlertDialog.THEME_HOLO_LIGHT);