I think you need that line in your theme
<item name="android:checkedTextViewStyle">@style/ListViewCheckedTextViewRowStyle</item>
so it would look like this:
<style name="Theme.Yellowgreen" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:listChoiceIndicatorMultiple">@drawable/btn_check_holo_light</item>
<item name="android:checkedTextViewStyle">@style/ListViewCheckedTextViewRowStyle</item>
</style>
UPDATE
After question update and some additional information form comments we found that the problem was in Context
. It’s the same mistake I did in that my question: Android color selector doesn’t work with custom attributes
To one fragment was passed Activity
and to the other Application
. I’m not an expert but even both of those classes are extending Context
only the Activity
extends ContextThemeWrapper
, which has information about styles. It might be helpful to read that article for future understanding Context: http://www.doubleencore.com/2013/06/context/