First letter capitalization for EditText

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I m working on a little personal todo list app and so far everything has been working quite well  There is one little quirk I d like to figure out  Whenever I go to add a new item  I have a Dialog with an EditText view showing inside  When I select the EditText view  the keyboard comes up to enter text  as it should  In most applications  the default seems to be that the shift key is held for the first letter    although it does not do this for my view  There has to be a simple way to fix  but I ve searched the reference repeatedly and cannot find it  I m thinking there has to be an xml attribute for the reference loaded by the Adapter  but I can t find out what it is

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Earlier it used to be android capitalize  words   which is now deprecated  The recommended alternative is to use android inputType  textCapWords   Please note that this will only work if your device keyboard Auto Capitalize Setting enabled   To do this programatically  use the following method   setInputType InputType TYPE CLASS TEXT   InputType TYPE TEXT FLAG CAP WORDS

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I can assure you both the answers will make first letter capital and will not make edittext single line   If you want to do it in XMl below is the code  android inputType  textCapWords textCapSentences    If want to do it in activity fragment etc below is the code  momentTextView setInputType InputType TYPE CLASS TEXT   InputType TYPE TEXT FLAG CAP WORDS   InputType TYPE TEXT FLAG MULTI LINE    PS  If you are having nay other property also you can easily add it with a pipe     symbol  just make sure there is no space in xml between the attribute properties

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use this code to only First letter capitalization for EditText  MainActivity xml   lt RelativeLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android      xmlns app  http   schemas android com apk res-auto      xmlns tools  http   schemas android com tools      android layout width  match parent      android layout height  match parent  gt        lt EditText         android id    id et          android layout width  match parent          android layout height  wrap content          android tag  true  gt       lt  EditText gt    lt  RelativeLayout gt    MainActivity java  EditText et   findViewById R id et           et addTextChangedListener new TextWatcher                 public void beforeTextChanged CharSequence charSequence  int i  int i1  int i2                               public void onTextChanged CharSequence charSequence  int i  int i1  int i2                                if  et getText   toString   length      1  amp  amp  et getTag   toString   equals  true                                          et setTag  false                        et setText et getText   toString   toUpperCase                         et setSelection et getText   toString   length                                       if et getText   toString   length      0                                        et setTag  true                                                 public void afterTextChanged Editable editable

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For Capitalisation in EditText you can choose the below two input types         android inputType  textCapSentences    android inputType  textCapWords       textCapSentences This will let the first letter of the first word as Capital in every sentence   textCapWords This will let the first letter of every word as Capital   If you want both the attributes just use   sign with both the attributes  android inputType  textCapSentences textCapWords

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testEditText setInputType InputType TYPE CLASS TEXT   InputType TYPE TEXT FLAG CAP WORDS        or android inputType  textCapSentences  will only work If your device keyboard Auto Capitalize Setting enabled

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Just use android inputType  textCapWords  in your EditText element   For example    lt EditText     android id    id txtName      android layout width  0dp      android layout height  40dp      android layout weight  0 7      android inputType  textCapWords      android textColorHint   aaa      android hint  Name Surname      android textSize  12sp    gt    Refer to the following link for reference  http   developer android com reference android widget TextView html attr android 3ainputType

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Apply following line in your EditText in XML   android inputType  textCapSentences textMultiLine    It will also allow multi-line support

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Try This Code  it will capitalize first character of all words   - set addTextChangedListener for EditText view  edt text addTextChangedListener watcher    - Add TextWatcher   TextWatcher watcher   new TextWatcher         int mStart   0        Override     public void beforeTextChanged CharSequence s  int start  int count  int after                Override     public void onTextChanged CharSequence s  int start  int before  int count            mStart   start   count              Override     public void afterTextChanged Editable s            String input   s toString            String capitalizedText          if  input length    lt  1              capitalizedText   input          else if  input length    gt  1  amp  amp  input contains                     String fstr   input substring 0  input lastIndexOf        1               if  fstr length      input length                      capitalizedText   fstr                else                   String sstr   input substring input lastIndexOf        1                   sstr   sstr substring 0  1  toUpperCase     sstr substring 1                   capitalizedText   fstr   sstr                          else             capitalizedText   input substring 0  1  toUpperCase     input substring 1            if   capitalizedText equals edt text getText   toString                   edt text addTextChangedListener new TextWatcher                      Override                 public void beforeTextChanged CharSequence s  int start  int count  int after                                         Override                 public void onTextChanged CharSequence s  int start  int before  int count                                         Override                 public void afterTextChanged Editable s                        edt text setSelection mStart                       edt text removeTextChangedListener this                                                 edt text setText capitalizedText

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i founded and my solution   you have 2 way to resolve it  in java     testEditText setInputType InputType TYPE CLASS TEXT     InputType TYPE TEXT FLAG CAP WORDS        and xml       lt EditText android id    id mytxt  android layout width  match parent  android layout height  wrap content  android inputType  textCapWords  android textSize  12sp    gt

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To capitalize  you can do the following with edit text   To make first letter capital of every word   android inputType  textCapWords    To make first letter capital of every sentence   android inputType  textCapSentences    To make every letter capital   android inputType  textCapCharacters    But this will only make changes to keyboard and user can change the mode to write letter in small case   So this approach is not much appreciated if you really want the data in capitalize format  add following class first   public class CapitalizeFirstLetter       public static String capitaliseName String name            String collect     name split               String returnName               for  int i   0  i  lt  collect length  i                  collect i    collect i  trim   toLowerCase                if  collect i  isEmpty      false                    returnName   returnName   collect i  substring 0  1  toUpperCase     collect i  substring 1                                         return returnName trim              public static String capitaliseOnlyFirstLetter String data                return data substring 0 1  toUpperCase   data substring 1             And then   Now to capitalize every word   CapitalizeFirstLetter capitaliseName name     To capitalize only first word   CapitalizeFirstLetter capitaliseOnlyFirstLetter data

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I encountered the same problem  just sharing what I found out  Might help you and others     Try this on your layout add the line below in your EditText   android inputType  textCapWords textCapSentences    works fine on me   hope it works also on you

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Set input type in XML as well as in JAVA file like this   In XML      android inputType  textMultiLine textCapSentences    It will also allow multiline and in JAVA file   edittext setRawInputType InputType TYPE CLASS TEXT InputType TYPE TEXT FLAG CAP SENTENCES     make sure your keyboard s Auto-Capitalization setting is Enabled

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In your layout XML file       set android inputType  textCapSentences   On your EditText to have first alphabet of the first word of each sentence as capital Or android inputType  textCapWords  on your EditText to have first alphabet of each word as capital

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If you want capital first letter in every word then use android inputType  quot textCapWords quot  For Better understanding   lt EditText     android id  quot   id edt description quot      android layout width  quot match parent quot      android layout height  quot wrap content quot      android inputType  quot textCapWords quot   gt   And if you capital word for every sentence  then use it   android inputType  quot textCapSentences quot  this line in your xml  I mean in your EditText  For Better understanding  lt EditText     android id  quot   id edt description quot      android layout width  quot match parent quot      android layout height  quot wrap content quot      android inputType  quot textCapSentences quot   gt

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Programmatically  TextView firstline    TextView  findViewById R id firstline   firstline setAllCaps true

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if you are writing styles in styles xml then   remove android inputType property and add below lines   lt item name  android capitalize  gt words lt  item gt

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Statically  i e  in your layout XML file   set android inputType  textCapSentences  on your EditText   Programmatically  you have to include InputType TYPE CLASS TEXT in the InputType of the EditText  e g   EditText editor   new EditText this    editor setInputType InputType TYPE CLASS TEXT   InputType TYPE TEXT FLAG CAP SENTENCES        Can be combined with text and its variations to request capitalization of the first character of every sentence     - Google Docs

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