Is there a way to style a TextView to uppercase all of its letters?

android textview capitalization
cottonBallPaws picture cottonBallPaws · Dec 14, 2010 · Viewed 193.1k times · Source

I would like to be able to assign a xml attribute or style to a TextView that will make whatever text it has in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.

The attributes android:inputType="textCapCharacters" and android:capitalize="characters" do nothing and look like they are for user inputed text, not a TextView.

I would like to do this so I can separate the style from the content. I know I could do this programmically but again I want keep style out of the content and the code.

Answer

Terrance picture Terrance · Dec 14, 2010

I though that was a pretty reasonable request but it looks like you cant do it at this time. What a Total Failure. lol

Update

You can now use textAllCaps to force all caps.

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