android:capitalize not working

Question

I have a TextView. I'm trying to capitalize the first letter in every word.

Here's the TextView:

 <TextView 
            android:text="TextView" 
            android:id="@+id/textView1" 
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
            android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
            android:layout_alignParentRight="true" 
            android:textSize="30dip" 
            android:textStyle="bold" 
            android:layout_marginRight="5dip" 
            android:ellipsize="end"
            android:capitalize="words">
        </TextView>

Here's how I'm adding the text:

TextView titleView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);
    titleView.setText( section.replace("_", " ") );

Can I not add text dynamically and expect it to capitalize the words? Is another trait interfering with android:capitalize? Is android:capitalize broken?

Thanks for your replies.

Answer 1

If you're targeting API Level 14 and above, you should use

android:textAllCaps="true"

Otherwise, you'll have to implement this behavior yourself.

Answer 2

capitalize is basically just a KeyListener that you can set in XML, so it only applies to text input by the user. As the documentation states (emphasis mine):

If set, specifies that this TextView has a textual input method and should automatically capitalize what the user types.

There is a related question on how to capitalize the first letter of every word in Java which has some helpful answers.