How to capitalize the first letter of text in a TextView in an Android Application

Question

I\'m not referring to textInput, either. I mean that once you have static text in a TextView (populated from a Database call to user inputted data (that may not be Capitaliz

Answer 1

The accepted answer is good, but if you are using it to get values from a textView in android, it would be good to check if the string is empty. If the string is empty it would throw an exception.

private String capitizeString(String name){
    String captilizedString="";
    if(!name.trim().equals("")){
       captilizedString = name.substring(0,1).toUpperCase() + name.substring(1);
    }
    return captilizedString;
}