DatePickerDialog, style and compatibility - android

I'm using the DatePickerDialog and it's displayed via DialogFragment(from support library).
The datepicker dialog displays correctly in ICS, if android:theme
is set to "android:Theme.Light". But if it is set to #android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar"
Datepickerdialog displays as if in the Android versions below 3.0
Since the app do not display the title bar, we need to use "NoTitleBar".
I'm not sure which value I need to set for android:theme to make
Datepickerdialog to work properly in ICS. I tried changing the
style and theme using the setStye() in DialogFragment, but it didn't work.
Any suggestions which theme I need to set?
Thanks

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Use Theme.Light Datepicker on Theme.Holo.Light

I have an activity that uses Theme.Holo.Light containing EditText, RadioButtons and DatePicker. I want to use Theme.Holo.Light for entire activity, except DatePicker which I want to be Theme.Light style. How can I do this?
Have you tried something like
<DatePicker
...
style="#android:style/Widget.DatePicker"/>
?
Holo uses #android:style/Widget.Holo.DatePicker while #android:style/Widget.DatePicker is the one you need to use.
Links:
Style list
Style list's source code
Update:
It seems that DatePicker is built with 3 NumberPickers. My answer is correct, but it is incomplete. The best approach I found to solve your problem was to recreate ans make your own DatePicker (copypaste from source code) and give style to the DatePicker AND the 3 NumberPickers inside.
Link of the Layout on GitHub:
DatePicker Layout

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like this
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