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Edittext not accepting a capital first letter

I have a simple app with Edittexts which now (since being forced by android studio to upgrade my emulator to API 27) will simply not accept a capital letter as the first letter. It is still working on my phone (API 21). I have tried the usual TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_CAP_SENTENCES and android:inputType="textCapSentences" etc. This doesn't seem to be the issue tho. It will not accept a capital at all!

Solution

  • You must make use of emulator keyboard to enter the value to edit text. If the focus is on EditText with input type enabled 

    android:inputType="textCapWords"

    then you will see the keyboard will be CAPS letters for first letter and when you start typing the second letter keyboard will change to small letters.

    API < 27 entering from laptop also works. But on 27 it is not working.

    Hope this will help you.