I have set android:textAllCaps="false"
in my android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
thought it is showing the Tab Title in All caps only.
How can I remove all caps?
I have set android:textAllCaps="false"
in my android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
thought it is showing the Tab Title in All caps only.
How can I remove all caps?
UPDATE FOR DESIGN LIBRARY 23.2.0+
The original answer doesn't work with design library 23.2.0 or later. Thanks for @fahmad6 pointed out in comment, in case someone missed that comment, I'll put it here. You need to set both textAllCaps
and android:textAllCaps
to false
to disable all capitalize setting.
<style name="MyCustomTextAppearance" parent="TextAppearance.Design.Tab">
<item name="textAllCaps">false</item>
<item name="android:textAllCaps">false</item>
</style>
ORIGINAL ANSWER
By default, tabs are created by TabLayout sets the textAllCaps property to be true, you have to define a style making this flag false.
<style name="MyCustomTabLayout" parent="Widget.Design.TabLayout">
<item name="tabTextAppearance">@style/MyCustomTextAppearance</item>
</style>
<style name="MyCustomTextAppearance" parent="TextAppearance.Design.Tab">
<item name="textAllCaps">false</item>
</style>
@Paresh Mayani answer is correct however you can create only tab style
<style name="MyCustomTextAppearance" parent="TextAppearance.Design.Tab">
<item name="textAllCaps">false</item>
</style>
And use it using
<android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
app:tabTextAppearance="@style/MyCustomTextAppearance"
.../>
https://stackoverflow.com/a/34678235/1025379
<android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
app:tabTextAppearance="@android:style/TextAppearance.Widget.TabWidget"
/>
use this attribute app:tabTextAppearance="@android:style/TextAppearance.Widget.TabWidget"
It will work.
<android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
android:id="@+id/tablayout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
app:tabGravity="fill"
app:tabTextAppearance="@android:style/TextAppearance.Widget.TabWidget"
app:tabIndicatorColor="@color/colorPrimary"
app:tabMode="fixed"
app:tabPaddingStart="0dp" />
Here is simple solution....Enjoy
for (int tabIndex = 0; tabIndex <tabLayout.getTabCount() ; tabIndex++) {
TextView tabTextView = (TextView)(((LinearLayout)((LinearLayout)tabLayout.getChildAt(0)).getChildAt(tabIndex)).getChildAt(1));
tabTextView.setAllCaps(false);
}
For those who can't get working other answers.
Defining a style is working fine when you have single line tab text. If you take a close look into the TabLayout, you'll see that it's using a field design_tab_text_size_2line when the tabs has more than one line.
The only way I could find to effect this field is to override it in your dimen file.
So put this in your values/dimens.xml
<dimen name="design_tab_text_size_2line" tools:override="true">10sp</dimen>
Hope it helps.
In versions priror to 14, you need to set (as commented by Paresh Mayani):
<style name="MyCustomTabLayout" parent="Widget.Design.TabLayout">
<item name="tabTextAppearance">@style/MyCustomTextAppearance</item>
</style>
<style name="MyCustomTextAppearance" parent="TextAppearance.Design.Tab">
<item name="textAllCaps">false</item>
</style>
But, in case of android version is equal or greater than 14, you need to set:
<item name="android:textAllCaps">false</item>
So, if you need to be compatible with versions before and after 14, you also need to create a folder values-v14, and a file styles.xml in that folder with the content:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools">
<style name="MyCustomTextAppearance" parent="TextAppearance.Design.Tab">
<item name="android:textAllCaps">false</item>
</style>
</resources>
You can also do this in your Java code. If you are using a SlidingTabLayout look at this sample:
protected TextView createDefaultTabView(Context context){
TextView textView = new TextView(context);
textView.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);
textView.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_SP, TAB_VIEW_TEXT_SIZE_SP);//see line 38 above change the value their in TAB_VIEW_TEXT_SIZE_SP.
textView.setTypeface(Typeface.DEFAULT);//From DEFAULT_BOLD
textView.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#536DFE"));//Text color of the words in the tabs. Indigo A200
if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB){
// If we're running on Honeycomb or newer, then we can use the Theme's
// selectableItemBackground to ensure that the View has a pressed state
TypedValue outValue = new TypedValue();
getContext().getTheme().resolveAttribute(android.R.attr.selectableItemBackground, outValue, true);
textView.setBackgroundResource(outValue.resourceId);
}
if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.ICE_CREAM_SANDWICH){
// If we're running on ICS or newer, enable all-caps to match the Action Bar tab style
textView.setAllCaps(true);
}
int padding = (int)(TAB_VIEW_PADDING_DIPS * getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density);
textView.setPadding(padding, padding, padding, padding);
return textView;
}
Notice that textView.setAllCaps() has true as the perimeter:
if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.ICE_CREAM_SANDWICH){
// If we're running on ICS or newer, enable all-caps to match the Action Bar tab style
textView.setAllCaps(true);
}
When I changed this to (false) it solved the problem for me:
textView.setAllCaps(false);
Also my string resource file that I use for the tabs looks like this:
<string name="tab_title">Title with capital and smaller case</string>
However if it had all caps like >TITLE WITH ALL CAPS< you would still of course get all caps in your tabs.
I made no other changes.
It is noteworthy that you can set textView.setAllCaps(false) too, but this made no difference in my case. I just commented out textView.setAllCaps(true).
Try following method and you can implement all the methods of TextView
in TabLayout
private void setCustomTab() {
ViewGroup vg = (ViewGroup) mTabLayout.getChildAt(0);
int tabsCount = vg.getChildCount();
for (int j = 0; j < tabsCount; j++) {
ViewGroup vgTab = (ViewGroup) vg.getChildAt(j);
int tabChildsCount = vgTab.getChildCount();
for (int i = 0; i < tabChildsCount; i++) {
View tabViewChild = vgTab.getChildAt(i);
if (tabViewChild instanceof TextView) {
((TextView) tabViewChild).setTypeface(ResourcesCompat.getFont(this,R.font.montserrat_medium));
((TextView) tabViewChild).setAllCaps(false);
}
}
}
}
Hope it helps.
In my case two variants work:
1) By Bogdan (susemi99):
<android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
app:tabTextAppearance="@android:style/TextAppearance.Widget.TabWidget"
/>
2) By Paresh Mayani. I wanted to have android:textAllCaps="false"
and android:textSize="12sp"
simultaneously, so his old method works:
in styles.xml:
<style name="TabLayout" parent="Widget.Design.TabLayout">
<item name="android:textSize">12sp</item>
<item name="tabIndicatorColor">@color/color_blue</item>
<item name="tabSelectedTextColor">@color/color_blue</item>
<item name="tabTextColor">@color/black</item>
<item name="tabTextAppearance">@style/TabLayoutTextAppearance</item>
</style>
<style name="TabLayoutTextAppearance" parent="TextAppearance.Design.Tab">
<item name="textAllCaps">false</item>
<item name="android:textAllCaps">false</item>
</style>
Apply this style in layout:
<android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
android:id="@+id/tab_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
style="@style/TabLayout"
/>
Change: <item name="android:textAllCaps">false</item>
With: <item name="textAllCaps">false</item>