How can I change Theme.Holo.Light.Dialog to take up less screen space?

Question

Currently, my application uses the Holo Light theme, unless I added settings. This is mostly normal, but it's hard for me to create a dialog box style.

The head theme has the colors I want, but Theme.Dialog more compact, i.e. takes up less screen space, which is what I want.

When I use the Holo theme with the following setting

  <style name="AlertDialogCustom" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.Dialog"> <item name="android:buttonStyle">@style/general_button_style</item> <item name="android:textColor">@color/my_blue</item> </style> 

it looks like this:

When I return to the dialog box for a theme other than Holo

  <style name="AlertDialogCustom" parent="@android:style/Theme.Dialog"> <item name="android:buttonStyle">@style/general_button_style</item> <item name="android:textColor">@color/my_blue</item> </style> 

as follows:

What do I need to change to use the holographic theme, but to use less screen space?

Answer 1

The extra space used in the Holo theme is used to place the scroll effect when scrolling up or down.

Both scrolling components sit inside the view, for example this .

Defining negative fields on the top / bottom of both components should do the (albeit dirty) trick:

 <TimePicker android:id="@+id/timePicker1" ... android:layout_marginBottom="-20dip" android:layout_marginTop="-20dip"/> 

Play with numbers as needed, as I have not tried it myself.