Android TextView padding between lines

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I have a TextView which displays a long text  I want to give some space between lines like in CSS with line-height property  How can I do it

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Adding android lineSpacingMultiplier  0 8  can make the line spacing to 80

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you can look into android lineSpacingExtra and apply it to your XML  Additional Info is on this page  or the related method public void setLineSpacing  float add  float mult    Additional Info here

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If you want padding between text try LineSpacingExtra  10dp    lt TextView         android layout width  match parent          android layout height  180dp          android lineSpacingExtra  10dp   gt

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You can use TextView setLineSpacing n m  function

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You can use lineSpacingExtra and lineSpacingMultiplier in your XML file

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This supplemental answer shows the effect of changing the line spacing     You can set the multiplier and or extra spacing with  textView setLineSpacing float add  float mult    Or you can get the values with   int lineHeight   textView getLineHeight    float add   tvSampleText getLineSpacingExtra                API 16  float mult   tvSampleText getLineSpacingMultiplier          API 16    where the formula is  lineHeight   fontMetricsLineHeight   mult   add   The default multiplier is 1 and the default extra spacing is 0

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