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Joker
Joker

Reputation: 856

How to first letter capital in android , How to capitalise first letter in android?

I want forcefully add first letter capital in EditText. So i can search about i get lots of solution but i Notice that user can shift and enter lower characters.

I tried below code :

android:inputType="textCapSentences|textCapWords"

Also I tried pragmatically :

EditText editor = new EditText(this); 
editor.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT | InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_CAP_SENTENCES);

Any other solution. If user shift and enter lower characters it's automatically converted in to Upper characters.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4784

Answers (6)

Sadique Khan
Sadique Khan

Reputation: 320

You can use android:inputType="textCapWords" to capitalize every word and android:inputType="textCapSentences" for capitalising every sentence

Upvotes: 1

Mayuresh Deshmukh
Mayuresh Deshmukh

Reputation: 1127

Hello Guys Below code is worked for me.

val toUpperCaseFilter =
        InputFilter { source, start, end, dest, dstart, dend ->
            val stringBuilder = StringBuilder()
            for (i in start until end) {
                var character = source[i]
                if(i==0 || source[i-1].equals(' ',true)) {
                    character = Character.toUpperCase(character!!) // THIS IS UPPER CASING
                }
                stringBuilder.append(character)
            }
            stringBuilder.toString()
        }

    binding.edtUsername.setFilters(arrayOf(toUpperCaseFilter))

This will work in every device and every keyboard.

Upvotes: 1

Quick learner
Quick learner

Reputation: 11477

Simple solution - Cannot restrict user to type first character capital so

When the user is done writing get the string value from edittext then change the first letter to capital and use that string.

ie On Button click or so get the string value from edittext

String content = edtEditText.getText().toString();
content.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + str.substring(1);

Upvotes: 1

Mithun Sarker
Mithun Sarker

Reputation: 4023

Try a text watcher like following 

EditText et = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText);

    et.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {
        @Override
        public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {

           if(count ==1){
              Character.toUpperCase(s.charAt(0));
           }
        }
        @Override
        public void beforeTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int count, int after) { }
        @Override
        public void afterTextChanged(Editable s) {}
    });

Upvotes: 0

Vipul Prajapati
Vipul Prajapati

Reputation: 1183

Try InputFilter here is working snipped. modify code acording your need. 

EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextId);

editText..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; 
} 
};

Upvotes: 1

Sanjay Bhalani
Sanjay Bhalani

Reputation: 2484

You just need to set android:capitalize="sentences" in your XML file, No need to set other "textCapWords" in android:inputType, as the latter seems to have priority over the first and the input will not be capitalized.

Upvotes: 0

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