android:capitalize not working

Question

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

Here\'s the TextView:

Answer 1

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.

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