[android] How to capitalize the first letter of text in a TextView in an Android Application

I'm not referring to textInput, either. I mean that once you have static text in a TextView (populated from a Database call to user inputted data (that may not be Capitalized)), how can I make sure they are capitalized?

Thanks!

For future visitors, you can also (best IMHO) import WordUtil from Apache and add a lot of useful methods to you app, like capitalize as shown here:

How to capitalize the first character of each word in a string

Please create a custom TextView and use it :

public class CustomTextView extends TextView {

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

    @Override
    public void setText(CharSequence text, BufferType type) {
        if (text.length() > 0) {
            text = String.valueOf(text.charAt(0)).toUpperCase() + text.subSequence(1, text.length());
        }
        super.setText(text, type);
    }
}

For Kotlin, if you want to be sure that the format is "Aaaaaaaaa" you can use :

myString.toLowerCase(Locale.getDefault()).capitalize()

for Kotlin, just call

textview.text = string.capitalize()

The accepted answer is good, but if you are using it to get values from a textView in android, it would be good to check if the string is empty. If the string is empty it would throw an exception.

private String capitizeString(String name){
    String captilizedString="";
    if(!name.trim().equals("")){
       captilizedString = name.substring(0,1).toUpperCase() + name.substring(1);
    }
    return captilizedString;
}

Following does not apply to TextView, but works with EditText; even then, it applies to the text entered from the keyboard, not the text loaded with setText(). To be more specific, it turns the Caps on in the keyboard, and the user can override this at her will.

android:inputType="textCapSentences"

or

TV.sname.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_CAP_SENTENCES);

This will CAP the first letter.

or

compile 'org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.4' //in build.gradle module(app)

tv.setText(StringUtils.capitalize(myString.toLowerCase().trim()));

You can add Apache Commons Lang in Gradle like compile 'org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.4'

And use WordUtils.capitalizeFully(name)

For me none of working:

Function:

private String getCapsSentences(String tagName) {
    String[] splits = tagName.toLowerCase().split(" ");
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    for (int i = 0; i < splits.length; i++) {
        String eachWord = splits[i];
        if (i > 0 && eachWord.length() > 0) {
            sb.append(" ");
        }
        String cap = eachWord.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() 
                + eachWord.substring(1);
        sb.append(cap);
    }
    return sb.toString();
}

Result:

I/P brain O/P Brain

I/P Brain and Health O/P Brain And Health

I/P brain And health to O/P Brain And Health

I/P brain's Health to O/P Brain's Health

I/P brain's Health and leg to O/P Brain's Health And Leg

Hope this would help you.

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(name);
sb.setCharAt(0, Character.toUpperCase(sb.charAt(0)));  
return sb.toString();

Here I have written a detailed article on the topic, as we have several options, Capitalize First Letter of String in Android

Method to Capitalize First Letter of String in Java

public static String capitalizeString(String str) {
        String retStr = str;
        try { // We can face index out of bound exception if the string is null
            retStr = str.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + str.substring(1);
        }catch (Exception e){}
        return retStr;
}

Method to Capitalize First Letter of String in Kotlin

fun capitalizeString(str: String): String {
        var retStr = str
        try { // We can face index out of bound exception if the string is null
            retStr = str.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + str.substring(1)
        } catch (e: Exception) {
        }
        return retStr
}

Using XML Attribute

Or you can set this attribute in TextView or EditText in XML

android:inputType="textCapSentences"