Android doesn't respect autoCapitalize when secureTextEntry is set

[joshhornby]

Is this a bug report?

Yes

Have you read the Contributing Guidelines?

Yes

Environment

Environment:
 OS: macOS Sierra 10.12.6
 Node: 8.4.0
 Yarn: 1.2.1
 npm: 5.3.0
 Watchman: 4.9.0
 Xcode: Xcode 9.1 Build version 9B55
 Android Studio: 3.0 AI-171.4408382

Packages: (wanted => installed)
 react: 16.0.0 => 16.0.0
 react-native: 0.50.1 => 0.50.1

Steps to Reproduce

<View style={styles.container}>
 <TextInput
 placeholder="Text"
 secureTextEntry={true}
 autoCapitalize="none"
 underlineColorAndroid="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"
 />
 </View>

Expected Behavior

Keyboard shouldn't be auto capitalized. It seems when autoCapitalize and secureTextEntry are both set autoCapitalize is ignored. If I remove secureTextEntry then autoCapitalize works as expected. This only happens on Android.

Actual Behavior

Keyboard is auto capitalized when secureTextEntry is set

Reproducible Demo

https://snack.expo.io/ByoIR0rbG

[Sommerfeld]

I just made a project with react-native init foo and pasted your code. My actual behaviour is not a auto capitalized keyboard. (Android Emulator - Nexus 5X API25)
Additionally (just to clarify) the first character is lower cased if I start typing without pressing shift before.

Also downgraded to your react-native version. Same result.

Edit: Even in Expo the keyboard is lowercased for me.

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Even so I can not reproduce this behaviour: As far as I see react-native does not unset any input type flags set by autoCapitalize when setting secureTextEntry (or other way around). So I don't think we could call it a react-native bug. This might be a problem with some versions of android?

https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/1e18d907bfb8cc5f4f2e1a1ede0dd98aec40ab11/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/textinput/ReactTextInputManager.java#L509-L526

[joshhornby]

Thanks for the response @Sommerfeld.

I updated to the latest React Native and seemed to work on my Android device. So putting it down to something strange in Android, thanks.