Xamarin.Android Dark mode not working for Dialogs and Pickers

Question

We have implemented dark mode in Xamarin.Forms to target Android and iOS. It works fine in iOS but dialogs and pickers don't respect the System Dark mode updates (Android).

I tried inheriting the base style via:

<style name="MainTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.DayNight.DarkActionBar">
  </style>

OR

 <style name="MainTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
  </style>

But none of the above changes are working. Please suggest if it's a bug in Xamarin.Android framework.

Answer 1

Hello,​

Please update your Xamarin.Forms nugget package to the latest. Then change the parent of <style> to parent="MainTheme.Base" or parent="Theme.AppCompat.DayNight"

Best Regards,

Leon Lu

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