Transparent Background on PreferenceScreen using Titanium Theme

Application type: Mobile Titanium

SDK: 3.3.0

Platform:Android 4.x

Device: Android GenyMotion Emulator & Sony Xperia E

OS: OSX 10.9

Titanium Studio: 3.3.0

After upgrading to 3.3.0 I was having problems hiding the action bar, to resolve this I used the below code in my styles.xml. This removed the action bar but made the background of the preference screen transparent.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <style name="Theme.NoActionBar" parent="Theme.Titanium"/>
     <!--Depending on the parent theme, this may be called android:windowActionBar instead of windowActionBar-->
        <item type="bool" name="android:windowActionBar">false</item> 
        <item type="bool" name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
    </style>
</resources>

When I switch the theme to 'Theme.Appcompat' the action bar returns and the background of the PreferenceScreen turns to the default dark colour seen in the dark theme.

I tried the below code to change the colour of background while using 'Theme.Titanium' but nothing seems to effect it.

<item type="string" name="android:background">#212121</item>

and

<color name="background_colour">#212121</color>
<style name="Theme.NoActionBar" parent="android:Theme.Titanium">
    <item name="android:windowBackground">@color/background_colour</item>
    <item name="android:colorBackground">@color/background_colour</item>
</style>

I also tried solution on this page,

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3551169/change-background-color-of-preference

I get the following errors,

Error: No resource found that matches the given name (at 'theme' with value '@style/PreferencesTheme').

I've trying to figure it out for a while now and not sure what could be the problem, has anybody got any suggestions.