Why is my Button text forced to ALL CAPS on Lollipop

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In my app  Tide Now WA  which I recently tested for compatibility using the new Nexus 9 tablet  Lollipop - API 21    It writes some button text  This app writes the text correctly using Android 2 3 and Android 4 0  I e  mixed capital and lower case letters    When same app is run on my Nexus 9 all the letters in the text are capitalized    FWIW my manifest contains the following statement   uses-sdk android minSdkVersion  10  android targetSdkVersion  14   Can I fix this in my code or is it a bug in the O S  thanks

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You could add android textAllCaps  false  to the button   The button text might be transformed to uppercase by your app s theme that applies to all buttons  Check themes   styles files for setting the attribute android textAllCaps

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By default  Button in android provides all caps keyword  If you want button text to be in lower case or mixed case you can disable textAllCaps flag using android textAllCaps  false

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If you use appcompat-v7  you can subclass AppCompatButtonand setSupportAllCaps false   then use this class for all your buttons          Light extension of   link AppCompatButton  that overrides ALL CAPS transformation     public class Button extends AppCompatButton       public Button Context context  AttributeSet attrs            super context  attrs           setSupportAllCaps false              public Button Context context  AttributeSet attrs  int defStyleAttr            super context  attrs  defStyleAttr           setSupportAllCaps false             See AppCompatButton setSupportAllCaps boolean  Android docs

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This is fixable in the application code by setting the button s TransformationMethod  e g   mButton setTransformationMethod null

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There is an easier way which works for all buttons  just change appearance of buttons in your theme  try this   in values-21 styles xml   lt resources gt       lt style name  myBaseTheme          parent   android style Theme Material Light  gt           lt item name  android colorPrimary  gt  color bg lt  item gt           lt item name  android colorPrimaryDark  gt  color bg p lt  item gt           lt item name  android textAppearanceButton  gt  style textAppearanceButton lt  item gt       lt  style gt        lt style name  textAppearanceButton  parent   android style TextAppearance Material Widget Button  gt           lt item name  android textAllCaps  gt false lt  item gt       lt  style gt   lt  resources gt    PS  it s recommended to follow material design s principles  you should show capitalized text in Buttons  http   www google com design spec components buttons html

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Here s what I did in my values themes xml       lt style name  AppTheme  parent  Theme AppCompat Light NoActionBar  gt           lt item name  buttonStyle  gt  style MyButton lt  item gt       lt  style gt        lt style name  MyButton  parent  Widget AppCompat Button  gt           lt item name  android textAllCaps  gt false lt  item gt       lt  style gt

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Lollipop default comes with  textAllCaps true   so you have to manually make it to false

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Add android textAllCaps  false  in  lt Button gt  tag that s it

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Using the android support v7 widget AppCompatButton in the XML layout will allow you to avoid having to have a layout-21 or programmatically changing anything  Naturally this will also work with AppCompat v7 library    lt android support v7 widget AppCompatButton     android id    id btnOpenMainDemo      android textAllCaps  false      style   style HGButton      android layout width  wrap content      android layout height  wrap content      android text   string btn main demo      android layout centerHorizontal  true      android layout centerVertical  true   gt    Hope this helps

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Java   yourButton setAllCaps false     Kotlin    yourButton isAllCaps   false   XML   android textAllCaps  false    Styles        lt style name  AppTheme  parent  Theme AppCompat Light NoActionBar  gt           lt item name  buttonStyle  gt  style yourButtonStyle lt  item gt       lt  style gt        lt style name  yourButtonStyle  parent  Widget AppCompat Button  gt           lt item name  android textAllCaps  gt false lt  item gt       lt  style gt    In layout       lt Button                       style   style yourButtonStyle                       gt

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OK  just ran into this  Buttons in Lollipop come out all uppercase AND the font resets to  normal   But in my case  Android 5 02  it was working in one layout correctly  but not another   Changing APIs didn t work  Setting to all caps requires min API 14 and the font still resets to  normal   It s because the Android Material Styles forces a change to the styles if there isn t one defined  that s why it worked in one of my layout and not the other because I defined a style   So the easy fix is to define a style in the manifest for each activity which in my case was just   android theme   android style Theme NoTitleBar Fullscreen    hope this helps someone  would have saved me a couple of hours last night

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this one is working      just in your code in your bottom code add this one      android textAllCaps  false    it should deactivate the caps letter that U trying to type small

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If you have arrived here because your facebook button text appears in all caps then just add this android textAllCaps  false  in your xml file  It worked for me

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Use this line android textAllCaps  false  in your xml   lt Button             android id    id btn login              android layout width  match parent              android layout height  wrap content              android text   string login str              android background   color colorBlue              android textColor   color colorWhite              android textAllCaps  false               gt

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I do not know why the answer of  user1010160 got rating of 0  I would have given it  1 if I had enough reputations   Since my app is designed for API less than 14 and I did not want to add code to my program I did not find a solution until I read his answer  What he said was that even though you have done what is needed in the Application styles it will not work unless you add a style to your activity and there you set textAllCaps to false   It is not enough to have a style for the activity  my activity had a style   because the style might defaults to the AllCaps property  You have to set explicitly  in the activity too  that property to false   I now have it both in the Application and in the Activity parts of the manifest file

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In Android Studio IDE  you have to click the Filter icon to show expert properties  Then you will see the textAllCaps property  Check it  then uncheck it

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add this line in style         lt item name  android textAllCaps  gt false lt  item gt

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Another programmatic Kotlin Alternative   mButton transformationMethod   null

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I don t have idea why it is happening but there 3 trivial attempts to make    Use android textAllCaps  false  in your layout-v21 Programmatically change the transformation method of the button   mButton setTransformationMethod null   Check your style for Allcaps   Note  public void setAllCaps boolean allCaps   android textAllCaps are available from API version 14

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Set android textAllCaps  false   If you are using an appcompat style  make sure textAllCaps comes before the style  Otherwise the style will override it  For example   android textAllCaps  false  style   style Base TextAppearance AppCompat

[android] Why is my Button text forced to ALL CAPS on Lollipop?

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