title: Light Theme app with Dark Theme RecyclerView
body: <p>I have a Light theme app and in one of the screens I have a recycler view that I need to be dark. </p>
  
  <p>I have tried setting the theme of the recyclerview to "@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark" but the RecyclerView stays with same background color, only the text shows up as white on the preview, but on the real device it stills shows as dark (and thus if I put a background it cannot be read).</p>
  
  <p>This is the item layout:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
                xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:gravity="center_vertical"
                android:orientation="horizontal"
                style="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark"
                android:padding="@dimen/single_padding"
                android:theme="@style/Base.ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark"&gt;
  
  
      &lt;TextView
          android:layout_width="wrap_content"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:textStyle="bold"
          android:text="52''"
          style="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark"
          tools:text="52''"/&gt;
  
      &lt;ImageView
          android:layout_width="wrap_content"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:layout_margin="@dimen/single_padding"
          android:src="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"/&gt;
  
      &lt;LinearLayout
          android:layout_width="match_parent"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:layout_weight="1"
          android:orientation="vertical"&gt;
  
          &lt;TextView
              android:layout_width="match_parent"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
              tools:text="Title"/&gt;
  
          &lt;TextView
              android:layout_width="match_parent"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
              tools:text="Subtitle"/&gt;
      &lt;/LinearLayout&gt;
  
  
      &lt;ImageView
          android:layout_width="48dp"
          android:layout_height="48dp"
          android:src="@drawable/logo"
          /&gt;
  
  &lt;/LinearLayout&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And this is how i declare my recyclerview:</p>
  
  <pre><code>        &lt;android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
              android:id="@+id/highlights_list"
              android:layout_width="match_parent"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
              style="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark"
              android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark"
              app:layout_behavior="@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior"
              tools:listitem="@layout/highlight_list_item"/&gt;
  </code></pre>