title: Using a theme for preferences screen
body: <p>I want the change the look of the preferences screen for an app I am working on.  On some phones the preferences are very translucent and it is quite difficult to read the preferences scheme, so I am going to change the visuals for it.</p>
  
  <p>My question is how can I apply a theme to the preferences scheme?  Or failing that, how can I change the text color that show up for the various preferences.</p>
  
  <p>In my current version, my preferences layout xml file starts with:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      android:orientation="vertical"
      android:layout_width="fill_parent"
      android:layout_height="fill_parent"
      android:background="#ffa0a0a0"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This background color gives me an acceptable gray, but I would prefer to use a theme.</p>
  
  <p>I tried putting a applying a couple of different themes in the preferences xml and the preferences layout xml and none of this has shown any effect.  I also tried setting andoid:textColor for the individual preferences items and in layout and that had no effect.</p>
  
  <p>So how does one modify the visuals for the preferences scheme (preferably by using a theme)?</p>
  
  <p>thanks in advance,</p>
  
  <p>Jay</p>