Android - How can I label my button to be small caps from the first letter of the label onwards?

Question

I'm having trouble labelling my button controls small letters from the first letter to the last. The first letter is always a capital letter? How can I change that? or should I make pictures on the ImageButton widget?

Answer 1

For setting Image and label on the same control, you can use <Button> control of android.

For users who just want to put Background, Icon-Image and Text in one Button from different files: Set on a Button background, drawableTop/Bottom/Right/Left and padding attributes.

      <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="@drawable/imagebackground"
        android:drawableTop="@drawable/imageonTop"
        android:textColor="#000000"
        android:id="@+id/btnwithImage"
        android:paddingTop="32sp"
        android:drawablePadding="-15sp"
        android:text="Your Label">
     </Button>

You can programmatically stop all letters to become capital by below code:

btnwithImage.setTransformationMethod(null);

and you can also use:

android:textAllCaps="false"

Hope it will help you.

Answer 2

you can add android:textAllCaps="false" to your button to make the button not capitalize every letter. (then set the text to however you want the capitalization : 'Button', 'button', 'BuTtOn', 'buttoN', etc.)

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also to programmatically capitalize the first letter of a string (if that is what you are asking)

String yourString = "button label";
yourString = capitalize(yourString);

...

private String capitalize(final String line) {
   return Character.toUpperCase(line.charAt(0)) + line.substring(1);
}

from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11149580

Answer 3

I don't know much about android since you are using jQuery so it can be done like this in jQuery

$('selector').css('text-transform','lowercase');

Note : selector can be a ID or class or tag_name

for e.x :

You have button like this

<button>Submit</button>

Then your jQuery will be

$('button').css('text-transform','lowercase');

This will apply style to all buttons tags...

Answer 4

It turns out that only on graphical layout does your font appear in capital letters when I ran it on the emmulator it was small letters as intended, thanx for your replies..!