First Letter Capitalization for Edittext

First letter capitalization for EditText

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.

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How to capitalize first letter of edit text in android

Check these solution:

edittext.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {

    @Override
    public void onTextChanged(CharSequence arg0, int arg1, int arg2, int arg3) {            

    }
        @Override
    public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence arg0, int arg1, int arg2,
                    int arg3) {             
    }
    @Override
    public void afterTextChanged(Editable et) {
          String s=et.toString();
      if((!s.equals(s.toUpperCase()) && s.length()==1)) {
         s=s.toUpperCase();
         edittext.setText(s);
      }
    }
}); 

How to force EditText to start text with capital letter?

Be careful if you add both android:capitalize="sentences" and android:inputType="text", as the latter seems to have priority over the first and the input will not be capitalized.

There's a specific inputType for automatically capitalizing the first letter:

android:inputType="textCapSentences"

See http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#attr_android:inputType

Accept only letters and capitalize first character in EditText

Keep the textCapSentences property and do the letter checking programatically like this:

et_name.setFilters(new InputFilter[] { filter }); 

InputFilter filter = new InputFilter() { 
public CharSequence filter(CharSequence source, int start, int end, Spanned dest, int dstart, int dend) { 
    for (int i = start;i < end;i++) { 
        if (!Character.isLetter(source.charAt(0))) { 
            return ""; 
        } 
    } 
    return null; 
} 
}; 

EditText remove capitalization of the first letter in android

You can combine multiple input types with |. In this case you want to add text for text with no capitalization specified.

android:inputType="text|textFilter"

The types are listed here.

How to capitalize every letter in an Android EditText?

You need to tell it it's from the "class" text as well:

inputs[i] = new EditText(this);
inputs[i].setWidth(376);
inputs[i].setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT | InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_CAP_CHARACTERS);
tFields.addView(inputs[i]);

The input type is a bitmask. You can combine the flags by putting the | (pipe) character in the middle, which stands for the OR logic function, even though when used in a bitmask like this it means "this flag AND that other flag".

(This answer is the same as Robin's but without "magic numbers", one of the worst things you can put in your code. The Android API has constants, use them instead of copying the values and risking to eventually break the code.)

Capitalizing first letter in android soft keyboard for edittext

XML answer:

 android:inputType="textCapSentences"

If you need to use more than one input type follow this:

android:inputType="textCapSentences|textPersonName"

! Do not use below code because it is deprecated:

android:capitalize="sentences" <!-- deprecated -->

Android EditText - Capitalize first letter of sentences using setText()

The only thing the inputType flag does is suggest to the input method (e.g. keyboard) what the user is attempting to enter. It has nothing to do with the internals of text editing in the EditText view itself, and input methods are not required to support this flag.

If you need to enforce sentence case, you'll need to write a method which does this for you, and run your text through this method before applying it.

How to disable auto-capitalization of an EditText

You could try using android:inputType="none" instead.

UPDATE:

You could also try using android:inputType="text|textEmailAddress"

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