Question

I have a specific situation, I’m using EditTextPreference in preferences to allow user to input word/name for a preference. When app opens text input box I need it to be in lowercase, it seems default is in uppercase for first letter.

<EditTextPreference
        android:title="Your Name"
        android:key="yname"
        android:capitalize="none" <-- DOES NOT WORK..
        android:summary="name:"
        android:defaultValue="george"
         >
    </EditTextPreference>

When this app uses preferences code and user selects item it opens text input box with caps lock on first letter… urgh! lol !

Can I simply use an @Override on the default use of uppercase for first letter in the input text box?

Answer 1

seems android:inputType="text" should clear all capitalization flags:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#attr_android:inputType