android fragment dialogfragment,Full Screen DialogFragment in Android

I'm trying to show an almost fullscreen DialogFragment. But I'm somehow not able to do so.

The way I am showing the Fragment is straight from the android developer documentation

FragmentManager f = ((Activity)getContext()).getFragmentManager();

FragmentTransaction ft = f.beginTransaction();

Fragment prev = f.findFragmentByTag("dialog");

if (prev != null) {

ft.remove(prev);

}

ft.addToBackStack(null);

// Create and show the dialog.

DialogFragment newFragment = new DetailsDialogFragment();

newFragment.show(ft, "dialog");

I know naively tried to set the RelativeLayout in the fragment to fill_parent and some minWidth and minHeight.

xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="fill_parent"

android:minWidth="1000px"

android:minHeight="600px"

android:background="#ff0000">

I would know expect the DialogFragment to fill the majority of the screen. But I only seems to resize vertically but only until some fixed width horizontally.

I also tried to set the Window Attributes in code, as suggested here: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/f0bb813f643604ec. But this didn't help either.

I am probably misunderstanding something about how Android handles Dialogs, as I am brand new to it. How can I do something like this? Are there any alternative ways to reach my goal?

Android Device:

Asus EeePad Transformer

Android 3.0.1

Update:

I now managed to get it into full screen, with the following code in the fragment

@Override

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setStyle(STYLE_NO_FRAME, android.R.style.Theme_Holo_Light);

}

Unfortunately, this is not quite want I want. I definitely need a small "padding" around the dialog to show the background.

Any ideas how to accomplish that?