android:textAllCaps=“false” not working for TabLayout design Support

Question

I have set android:textAllCaps=\"false\" in my android.support.design.widget.TabLayout thought it is showing the Tab Title in All caps only.

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Answer 1

You can also do this in your Java code. If you are using a SlidingTabLayout look at this sample:

protected TextView createDefaultTabView(Context context){
        TextView textView = new TextView(context);
        textView.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);
        textView.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_SP, TAB_VIEW_TEXT_SIZE_SP);//see line 38 above change the value their in TAB_VIEW_TEXT_SIZE_SP.
        textView.setTypeface(Typeface.DEFAULT);//From DEFAULT_BOLD
        textView.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#536DFE"));//Text color of the words in the tabs. Indigo A200

        if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB){
            // If we're running on Honeycomb or newer, then we can use the Theme's
        // selectableItemBackground to ensure that the View has a pressed state
            TypedValue outValue = new TypedValue();
            getContext().getTheme().resolveAttribute(android.R.attr.selectableItemBackground, outValue, true);
            textView.setBackgroundResource(outValue.resourceId);
        }

        if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.ICE_CREAM_SANDWICH){
            // If we're running on ICS or newer, enable all-caps to match the Action Bar tab style
            textView.setAllCaps(true);
        }

        int padding = (int)(TAB_VIEW_PADDING_DIPS * getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density);
        textView.setPadding(padding, padding, padding, padding);

        return textView;
    }

Notice that textView.setAllCaps() has true as the perimeter:

if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.ICE_CREAM_SANDWICH){
            // If we're running on ICS or newer, enable all-caps to match the Action Bar tab style
            textView.setAllCaps(true);
        }

When I changed this to (false) it solved the problem for me:

textView.setAllCaps(false);

Also my string resource file that I use for the tabs looks like this:

Title with capital and smaller case

However if it had all caps like >TITLE WITH ALL CAPS< you would still of course get all caps in your tabs.

I made no other changes.

It is noteworthy that you can set textView.setAllCaps(false) too, but this made no difference in my case. I just commented out textView.setAllCaps(true).