Go back to using a built-in list item resource. Mine was

white-on-white on several OS versions.  Need to test further to try to
reproduce the conditions that had me trying to manage contrast myself.
Or use a dialog-themed Activity for lookup dialog -- prev checkins say
that was too slow but that might be fixable....

xwords4/android/XWords4/res/layout/lookup.xml

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    >
 
-  <ListView android:id="@+id/list"
+  <ListView android:id="@+id/lookup_list"
             android:layout_width="fill_parent"
             android:layout_height="fill_parent"
             android:drawSelectorOnTop="false"

xwords4/android/XWords4/res/layout/select_dialog_item.xml

@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
-<!--
-/* //device/apps/common/res/layout/select_dialog_item.xml
-**
-** Copyright 2006, The Android Open Source Project
-**
-** Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-** you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-** You may obtain a copy of the License at
-**
-**     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-**
-** Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-** distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-** WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-** See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-** limitations under the License.
-*/
--->
-
-<!--
-    This layout file is used by the AlertDialog when displaying a list of items.
-    This layout file is inflated and used as the TextView to display individual
-    items.
--->
-<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
-          android:id="@android:id/text1"
-          android:layout_width="fill_parent"
-          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
-          android:minHeight="?android:attr/listPreferredItemHeight"
-          android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
-          android:gravity="center_vertical"
-          android:paddingLeft="14dip"
-          android:paddingRight="15dip"
-          android:ellipsize="marquee"
-          android:textColor="#FFFFFFFF"
-          />
-
-<!-- this guy's private -->
-<!-- android:textColor="@android:color/bright_foreground_light" -->

xwords4/android/XWords4/src/org/eehouse/android/xw4/LookupView.java

@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ public class LookupView extends LinearLayout
     private static String[] s_lookupUrls;
     private static ArrayAdapter<String> s_urlsAdapter;
     private static final int LIST_LAYOUT = // android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1;
-        // android.R.layout.select_dialog_item;
+        android.R.layout.select_dialog_item;
-        R.layout.select_dialog_item;
+    //R.layout.select_dialog_item;
     
     private static int s_lang = -1;
 
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ public class LookupView extends LinearLayout
 
         m_wordsAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>( m_context, LIST_LAYOUT, 
                                                    m_words );
-        m_list = (ListView)findViewById( R.id.list );
+        m_list = (ListView)findViewById( R.id.lookup_list );
         m_list.setOnItemClickListener( this );
 
         m_doneButton = (Button)findViewById( R.id.button_done );

xwords4/android/scripts/arelease.sh

@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ for PACK_UNSIGNED in $FILES; do
     zipalign -v 4 $PACK_UNSIGNED $PACK_SIGNED
     [ -n "$XW_WWW_PATH" ] && cp $PACK_SIGNED $XW_WWW_PATH
     cp $PACK_SIGNED ${PACK_SIGNED%.apk}_$(git describe).apk
+    echo "created ${PACK_SIGNED%.apk}_$(git describe).apk"
 done
 
 if [ -n "$TAGNAME" ]; then