Android ActionBar MenuItem LowerCase
I want to make MenuItem title in the ActionBar to LowerCase.
my menu.xml
<item android:id="@+id/register"
android:title="Register"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"/>
<item android:id="@+id/unregister"
android:title="Unregister"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"/>
On the ActionBar it sees "REGISTER" and "UNREGISTER", but I want that it sees as "Register" and "Unregister".
Is it possible to make first letter upper and next letters lower at MenuItem? And how I can do that?
Solution 1:
Solution for native ActionBar implementation:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<style name="MyTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo">
<item name="android:actionMenuTextAppearance">@style/MyMenuTextAppearance</item>
</style>
<style name="MyMenuTextAppearance" parent="android:TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Menu">
<item name="android:textAllCaps">false</item>
</style>
</resources>
If you are using ActionBarSherlock there are two different approaches:
1) Create boolean resource abs__config_actionMenuItemAllCaps
and set it to false
:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<bool name="abs__config_actionMenuItemAllCaps">false</bool>
</resources>
2) Or create theme with overriden actionMenuTextAppearance
and use it in AndroidManifest.xml
:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<style name="MyTheme" parent="Theme.Sherlock">
<item name="actionMenuTextAppearance">@style/MyMenuTextAppearance</item>
<item name="android:actionMenuTextAppearance">@style/MyMenuTextAppearance</item>
</style>
<style name="MyMenuTextAppearance" parent="TextAppearance.Sherlock.Widget.ActionBar.Menu">
<item name="android:textAllCaps">false</item>
</style>
</resources>
PLEASE NOTE: there is bug in ActionBarSherlock that forces MenuItem to be upper case on pre-ICS (https://github.com/JakeWharton/ActionBarSherlock/issues/969). I've submitted patch but it is not merged at the moment. For now you can use my fork: https://github.com/alexander-mironov/ActionBarSherlock/tree/dev, I will update this answer when my code is merged in the main repository.
UPDATE: my fix has been merged into main ActionBarSherlock repository.
Solution 2:
Add the following to one of your values xml files -
<bool name="abc_config_actionMenuItemAllCaps">false</bool>
Solution 3:
Just to complete the answer, if you're using AppCompat the parent style is:
<style name="MyMenuTextAppearance" parent="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Menu">
<item name="android:textAllCaps">false</item>
</style>