First letter capitalization for EditText

Question

I\'m working on a little personal todo list app and so far everything has been working quite well. There is one little quirk I\'d like to figure out. Whenever I go to add a

Answer 1

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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