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Android Build a Simple Android App (2014) Creating the Screen Layout Setting Colors

Dan Someone
Dan Someone
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Posted by Dan Someone
Dan Someone
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My button has all caps in the text, but the video has varying capitals with just the first letter. Is that an option?

I typed "Show Another Fun Fact" in my button text, but it is showing "SHOW ANOTHER FUN FACT" on the button text. I converted it to a string ID and checked the string file as well, it has the proper case value, but it is not displaying correctly.

3 Answers

Harry James
Harry James
14,780 Points
Harry James
Harry James
14,780 Points

Hey Dan!

The latest versions of the Android SDK have capitalisation enabled by default for buttons.

If you go ahead and add this line of code to your XML file, it should remove the capitalisation for you:

<item name="textAllCaps">false</item>

Hope it helps and if you have any more questions, give me a shout :)

Liv Levi
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Liv Levi
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Liv Levi
Liv Levi
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Could you be a bit more specific? I'm not sure where to add this item, when I add it to my activity xml file, right before "/RelativeLayout>" I get an error, and the Fun Facts app won't run.

Android Studio automatically changes the text to: <item name="textAllCaps" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content">false</item>

I'm not sure where to put it.

Palfalvi Laszlo Lorand
Palfalvi Laszlo Lorand
210 Points

Just add this line between your button tag: android:textAllCaps="false"

 <Button
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Show Another Fun Fact"
        android:id="@+id/showFactButton"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:singleLine="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:background="#ffffff"
       android:textAllCaps="false"
        />
Harry James
Harry James
14,780 Points
Harry James
Harry James
14,780 Points

Hey Palfalvi Laszlo Lorand!

Thanks for that explanation there! I must've missed Liv Levi's reply before!

Appreciate the help :)

Palfalvi Laszlo Lorand
Palfalvi Laszlo Lorand
210 Points
Palfalvi Laszlo Lorand
Palfalvi Laszlo Lorand
210 Points

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