Overriding Button styling with appcompat V21 theme

Question

I'm now using AppCompat.Theme but would like the buttons to not show up with the caption all capitalized as appears when running on a v21 device. Running on V18 or 19 the captions show up in mixed case as defined in my string definitions, but on 5.0 they're in all caps.

In general, I am able to style buttons -- such as with a custom background image -- by using a style without any specific inheritance. For example, here is my app's theme definition:

    <style name="GedStarThemeMisc" parent="Theme.AppCompat">
      <item name="colorPrimary">@color/theme_other_primary</item>
      <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/theme_other_primary_dark</item>
      <item name="colorAccent">@color/theme_other_accent</item>
    </style>

And here is a typical style I apply to a Button widget in a layout:

    <style name="large_cust_btn">
    <item name="android:layout_height">wrap_content</item>
    <item name="android:layout_width">wrap_content</item>
    <item name="android:layout_marginTop">2dp</item>
    <item name="android:layout_marginBottom">2dp</item>
    <item name="android:layout_marginLeft">4dp</item>
    <item name="android:layout_marginRight">4dp</item>
    <item name="android:minHeight">10dp</item>
    <item name="android:paddingBottom">6dp</item>
    <item name="android:paddingTop">6dp</item>
    <item name="android:paddingLeft">4dp</item>
    <item name="android:paddingRight">4dp</item>
    <item name="android:textSize">15sp</item>
    <item name="android:capitalize">words</item>
</style>

The "capitilize" item is my attempt to override the apparent v21 default. So how should I go about getting my specific button styling to work?

Your question is well elaborated. But it has been asked many times since L came out. All caps for buttons is L default behavoir — Nikola Despotoski, Dec 25 '14 at 01:34
I see that now. I searched but apparently wasn't creative enough with my search terms. — gordonwd, Dec 26 '14 at 15:37

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 25 '14 at 00:39

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Try using

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

in your button style.

answered Dec 25 '14 at 00:39

natario

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Doesn't work if you have support for API 10 – JPM Mar 30 '15 at 15:26
Should be fixed in API22, using `false` without the android prefix. – natario Mar 30 '15 at 15:37
Thankfully we are removing API 10 soon! – JPM Apr 09 '15 at 20:32

Overriding Button styling with appcompat V21 theme

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