[android] Is there a way to style a TextView to uppercase all of its letters?

It is really very disappointing that you can't do it with styles (<item name="android:textAllCaps">true</item>) or on each XML layout file with the textAllCaps attribute, and the only way to do it is actually using theString.toUpperCase() on each of the strings when you do a textViewXXX.setText(theString).

In my case, I did not wanted to have theString.toUpperCase() everywhere in my code but to have a centralized place to do it because I had some Activities and lists items layouts with TextViews that where supposed to be capitalized all the time (a title) and other who did not... so... some people may think is an overkill, but I created my own CapitalizedTextView class extending android.widget.TextView and overrode the setText method capitalizing the text on the fly.

At least, if the design changes or I need to remove the capitalized text in future versions, I just need to change to normal TextView in the layout files.

Now, take in consideration that I did this because the App's Designer actually wanted this text (the titles) in CAPS all over the App no matter the original content capitalization, and also I had other normal TextViews where the capitalization came with the the actual content.

This is the class:

package com.realactionsoft.android.widget;

import android.content.Context; 
import android.util.AttributeSet; 
import android.view.ViewTreeObserver; 
import android.widget.TextView;


public class CapitalizedTextView extends TextView implements ViewTreeObserver.OnPreDrawListener {

    public CapitalizedTextView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public CapitalizedTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public CapitalizedTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    @Override
    public void setText(CharSequence text, BufferType type) {
        super.setText(text.toString().toUpperCase(), type);
    }

}

And whenever you need to use it, just declare it with all the package in the XML layout:

<com.realactionsoft.android.widget.CapitalizedTextView 
        android:id="@+id/text_view_title"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

Some will argue that the correct way to style text on a TextView is to use a SpannableString, but I think that would be even a greater overkill, not to mention more resource-consuming because you'll be instantiating another class than TextView.