EditText input type textCapSentences not working on Lollipop

Question

I have implemeted android:inputType="textAutoComplete|textCapSentences" in my xml code. When I run it on kitkat, textCapSentence works fine but when build is run on Lollipop device it does not work. Anybody knows how to solve it.

Answer 1

Hi this is because in lollipop if you have disabled Auto - Capitalization in keyboard settings then you can't enable it programmatically.

here are the steps:-

• Tap icon of ‘Settings’ on the Home screen of your Android Lollipop Device
• At the ‘Settings’ screen, scroll down to the PERSONAL section and tap the ‘Language & input’ section.
• At the ‘Language & input’ section, select your keyboard(which is marked as current keyboard).
• Now tap the ‘Preferences’.
• Tap to check the ‘Auto – Capitalization’ to enable it.
• That’s all!

Answer 2

Set this way,

EditText input = (EditText).findViewById(R.id.ID);
input.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_CAP_SENTENCES);