High-box text button in Android API < 14

Question

We see that at the launch of Android 5.0 Lolipop came Material Design that has indeed changed a lot on Android and along with this, the component of Dialogs which by default comes with the high text box button as shown below in the image:

But I have an app with Android 2.3.3 Gingerbrend, that I would like to customize to stay close to the material. Then I fell in this question of the text in high box (UPPERCASE). I saw that there is the android:textAllCaps which in this case may be used only from API 14. When I entered this property to my button appeared the following alert:

Attribute "textAllCaps" is only used in API level 14 and Higher (Current min is 10)

Is there any method that replaces this property?

Answer 1

The ideal is to do as the @ramaral colleague suggested and use Appcompatbutton, since it is part of an official library, tested, debugged etc. But, for those who have some restriction on the use of libraries Support, a simple solution is to create a Custom View that inherits from Button and adds the behavior you want. An example of what the code of Custom View:

package com.minhaempresa.ui.customview;

import android.content.Context;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.Button;

public class AllCapsButton extends Button {

    public AllCapsButton(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public AllCapsButton(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);

    }

    public AllCapsButton(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
    }

    @Override
    public void setText(CharSequence text, BufferType type) {
        super.setText(text.toString().toUpperCase(), type);
    }

}

With this, simply, in XML, instead of Button, use com.minhaempresa.ui.customview.AllCapsButton. For example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context="com.minhaempresa.ui.customview.MainActivity">

    <com.minhaempresa.ui.customview.AllCapsButton
        android:id="@+id/botao"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_centerInParent="true"
        android:text="Texto que era minúsculo"/>


</RelativeLayout>

Upshot:

Tested on Android 2.3.3 and 5.0

Answer 2

Use the Appcompatbutton.

Appendage

xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

to the root layout

and declare the button so:

<android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatButton
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    app:textAllCaps="true"
    android:text="uppercase"/>

Answer 3

I recommend you use the AppCompatDialogFragment to do this!

This class is available within the appcompatv7, and will already do all the work of using the correct theme for your application.

To use, simply create a class you inherit from AppCompatDialogFragment:

public class ConfirmDialogFragment extends AppCompatDialogFragment {
    @NonNull
    @Override
    public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        AlertDialog dialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(getActivity())
            .setTitle(title)
            .setMessage(message)
            .setPositiveButton(R.string.alguma_string,
                new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
                        //Fazer algo
                    }
                }
            )
            .setNegativeButton(R.string.outra_string, 
                new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
                        //Fazer algo
                    }
                }
            )
            .create();

        return dialog;
    }
}

And, to show off:

ConfirmDialogFragment dialog = new ConfirmDialogFragment();
dialog.show(getSupportFragmentManager(), dialog.getClass().getName());

Refs:

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/app/AppCompatDialogFragment.html