UPDATE: This is now a Swype related issue: Disable the automatic capitalizing of a sentence's first character in an EditText

I'm implementing an EditText that is used to obtain an rtsp URI from the user. Though it's not a huge issue functionally, I would like to disable the default behavior of the on screen keyboard where the state of the caps key is enabled for the first character of every sentence. From what I've gathered, this cannot be done in the XML via android:inputType flags. Any pointers as to how to do this programatically would be helpful.

I'd like to include the code, but the nature of the project prevents me from doing so. But I can say that nothing fancy is being done here. The EditText itself has no other input flags in use, and the only开发者_Go百科 IME option in place is the flag to disable the Extract UI in landscape. The layout is implemented via XML, not programatically, so there are no custom classes or extensions in the mix either.

EDIT: The android:capitalize constant inherited from TextView isn't working. I'm specifically targetting 2.2 on a Galaxy Tab, so I don't know if this has something to do with Samsung's OS tweaks, or if it has something to do with the capitalize constant being deprecated.

EDIT 2: Swype is the culprit for not allowing the use of the capitalize constant. Does anyone know if there is a way to make Swype play nice without having to inform the end user to disable Swype?

You can use the inherited android:capitalize attribute from TextView. It accepts none (no caps, which is what you want), sentences (capitalizes the first word of each sentence), words (capitalizes the first letter of every word), and character (all caps).

Putting this in the XML for the EditText worked to stop Swype 2.17.59.15552.t100 from forcing capitals:

android:inputType="text|textEmailAddress"

Since EditText is subclass of TextView, you should be able to use the TextView:capitalize configuration to change the capitalization scheme of the view. It looks like you might only be able to set none in xml.