EditText input type textCapSentences not working on Lollipop

Question

I have implemeted android:inputType="textAutoComplete|textCapSentences" in my xml code. When I run it on kitkat, textCapSentence works fine but when build is run on Lollipop device it does not work. Anybody knows how to solve it.

Answer 1

Hi this is because in lollipop if you have disabled Auto - Capitalization in keyboard settings then you can't enable it programmatically.

here are the steps:-

• Tap icon of ‘Settings’ on the Home screen of your Android Lollipop Device
• At the ‘Settings’ screen, scroll down to the PERSONAL section and tap the ‘Language & input’ section.
• At the ‘Language & input’ section, select your keyboard(which is marked as current keyboard).
• Now tap the ‘Preferences’.
• Tap to check the ‘Auto – Capitalization’ to enable it.
• That’s all!

Answer 2

Set this way,

EditText input = (EditText).findViewById(R.id.ID);
input.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_CAP_SENTENCES);

Answer 3

Set input type in XML as well as in JAVA file like this,

In XML,

android:inputType="textCapSentences"

and in JAVA file,

edittext.setRawInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT|InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_CAP_SENTENCES);

This worked for me and make sure your keyboard's Auto-Capitalization setting is Enabled.

Answer 4

Add these two attributes. It works.

 android:capitalize="sentences"
 android:inputType="textCapSentences"

Answer 5

On which devices and OS specific versions are you trying. Sometime the manufactures are overriding the "InputMethod" on the OS level and it's just not working.

you can also make a test by taking the sources of the EditText from google code and compile it as your EditTextCustom and see if it's working.