Android TextView Remove spacing and padding on top and bottom

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When I have a TextView with a  n in the text   on the right I have two singleLine TextViews  one below the other with no spacing in between  I have set the following for all three TextViews   android lineSpacingMultiplier  1   android lineSpacingExtra  0pt   android paddingTop  0pt   android paddingBottom  0pt    The first line of the left TextView lines up perfectly with the top right TextView    The second line of the left TextView is a little higher than the second line of the bottom right TextView   It seems that there is some kind of hidden padding on the top and the bottom of the TextViews  How can I remove that

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You can try to use this attribute ConstraintLayout  layout constraintBaseline toBaselineOf  Like this      app layout constraintBaseline toBaselineOf    id textView

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Add android includeFontPadding  quot false quot  to see if it helps And make text view size same as that of text size rather than  quot wrap content quot  It will definitely work

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lt RelativeLayout     android layout width  match parent      android layout height  match parent  gt        lt TextView         android id    id textView          android layout width  wrap content          android layout height  wrap content          android layout alignBaseline    id baselineImage          android includeFontPadding  false    gt        lt ImageView         android id    id baselineImage          android layout width  1dp          android layout height  1dp          android baselineAlignBottom  true          android layout alignParentBottom  true    gt        lt  -- This view will be exactly 10dp below the baseline of textView -- gt       lt View         android id    id view          android layout width  wrap content          android layout height  wrap content          android layout marginTop  10dp          android layout below    id baselineImage    gt    lt  RelativeLayout gt    With an extra ImageView we can set the TextView to be baseline aligned with the ImageView and set the android baselineAlignBottom on the ImageView to true  which will make the baseline of ImageView to bottom  Other views can align itself using the bottom of the ImageView which itself is the same as the TextView s baseline   This however only fixes the padding bottom not the top

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If you use AppCompatTextView   or from API 28 onward   you can use the combination of those 2 attributes to remove the spacing on the first line   XML  android firstBaselineToTopHeight  0dp  android includeFontPadding  false    Kotlin  text firstBaselineToTopHeight   0 text includeFontPadding   false

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Since my requirement is override the existing textView get from findViewById getResources   getIdentifier  xxx    id    android      so I can t simply try onDraw   of other answer   But I just figure out the correct steps to fixed my problem  here is the final result from Layout Inspector     Since what I wanted is merely remove the top spaces  so I don t have to choose other font to remove bottom spaces   Here is the critical code to fixed it   Typeface mfont   Typeface createFromAsset getResources   getAssets     fonts myCustomFont otf    myTextView setTypeface mfont    myTextView setPadding 0  0  0  0    myTextView setIncludeFontPadding false     The first key is set custom font  fonts myCustomFont otf  which has the space on bottom but not on the top  you can easily figure out this by open otf file and click any font in android Studio     As you can see  the cursor on the bottom has extra spacing but not on the top  so it fixed my problem   The second key is you can t simply skip any of the code  otherwise it might not works  That s the reason you can found some people comment that an answer is working and some other people comment that it s not working   Let s illustrated what will happen if I remove one of them   Without setTypeface mfont       Without setPadding 0  0  0  0       Without setIncludeFontPadding false       Without 3 of them  i e  the original

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I feel your pain  I ve tried every answer above  including the setIncludeFontPadding to false  which did nothing for me   My solution   layout marginBottom  -3dp  on the TextView gives you a solution for the bottom  BAM    Although  -3dp on layout marginTop fails    ugh

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Simply use  android padding  0dp

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This trick worked for me  for min-sdk    18    I used android includeFontPadding  false  and a negative margin like android layout marginTop  -11dp  and put my TextView inside a FrameLayout   or any ViewGroup        and finally sample codes    lt LinearLayout     android layout width  60dp      android layout height  wrap content       gt        lt TextView         style   style MyTextViews Bold          android layout width  match parent          android layout height  wrap content          android background   color yellow          android textSize  48sp          android layout marginTop  -11dp          android includeFontPadding  false          tools text  1   gt   lt  LinearLayout gt

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I remove the spacing in my custom view -- NoPaddingTextView   https   github com SenhLinsh NoPaddingTextView    package com linsh nopaddingtextview   import android content Context  import android graphics Canvas  import android util AttributeSet  import android util Log  import android util TypedValue  import android widget TextView          Created by Senh Linsh on 17 3 27       public class NoPaddingTextView extends TextView        private int mAdditionalPadding       public NoPaddingTextView Context context            super context           init                public NoPaddingTextView Context context  AttributeSet attrs            super context  attrs           init               private void init             setIncludeFontPadding false               Override     protected void onDraw Canvas canvas            int yOff   -mAdditionalPadding   6          canvas translate 0  yOff           super onDraw canvas               Override     protected void onMeasure int widthMeasureSpec  int heightMeasureSpec            getAdditionalPadding             int mode   MeasureSpec getMode heightMeasureSpec           if  mode    MeasureSpec EXACTLY                int measureHeight   measureHeight getText   toString    widthMeasureSpec                int height   measureHeight - mAdditionalPadding              height    getPaddingTop     getPaddingBottom                heightMeasureSpec   MeasureSpec makeMeasureSpec height  MeasureSpec EXACTLY                     super onMeasure widthMeasureSpec  heightMeasureSpec              private int measureHeight String text  int widthMeasureSpec            float textSize   getTextSize             TextView textView   new TextView getContext             textView setTextSize TypedValue COMPLEX UNIT PX  textSize           textView setText text           textView measure widthMeasureSpec  0           return textView getMeasuredHeight               private int getAdditionalPadding             float textSize   getTextSize             TextView textView   new TextView getContext             textView setTextSize TypedValue COMPLEX UNIT PX  textSize           textView setLines 1           textView measure 0  0           int measuredHeight   textView getMeasuredHeight            if  measuredHeight - textSize  gt  0                mAdditionalPadding    int   measuredHeight - textSize               Log v  NoPaddingTextView    onMeasure  height     measuredHeight     textSize     textSize     mAdditionalPadding     mAdditionalPadding                     return mAdditionalPadding

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This annoyed me too  and the answer I found was that there is actually additional space in the font itself  not the TextView  It is rather irritating  coming from a document publishing background  the limited amount of control you have with Android over typographic elements  I d recommend using a custom typeface  such as Bitstream Vera Sans  which is licensed for redistribution  that may not have this issue  I m not sure specifically whether or not it does  though

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See this   Align ImageView with EditText horizontally  It seems that the background image of EditText has some transparent pixels which also add padding   A solution is to change the default background of EditText to something else  or nothing  but no background for a EditText is probably not acceptable   That s can be made setting android background XML attribute   android background   drawable myEditBackground

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I think this problem can be solved in this way     lt TextView         android id    id leftText          android includeFontPadding  false          android layout width  wrap content          android layout height  wrap content          android textSize  30dp          android text  Hello World  nhello world    gt     lt TextView         android id    id rightUpperText          android includeFontPadding  false          android layout width  wrap content          android layout height  wrap content          android layout toRightOf    id leftText          android layout alignTop    id leftText          android textSize  30dp          android text  Hello World     gt     lt TextView         android id    id rightLowerText          android includeFontPadding  false          android layout width  wrap content          android layout height  wrap content          android layout toRightOf    id leftText          android layout below    id rightUpperText          android textSize  30dp          android text  hello world    gt    Those are the results   ScreenShot-1  ScreenShot-3  Though the line of special characters in rightLowerText looks a little bit higher than the second line of leftText  their baselines are stilled aligned

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Use this in your ImageView xml   android adjustViewBounds  true

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setIncludeFontPadding  boolean includepad    or in XML this would be   android includeFontPadding  false    Set whether the TextView includes extra top and bottom padding to make room for accents that go above the normal ascent and descent  The default is true

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Only thing that worked is  android lineSpacingExtra  -8dp

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Updated XML android fontFamily  quot monospace quot  android includeFontPadding  quot false quot

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You might want to try aligning the bottom of the left text view with the bottom of the 2nd right text view

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I searched a lot for proper answer but no where I could find an Answer which could exactly remove all the padding from the TextView  but finally after going through the official doc got a work around for Single Line Texts  android includeFontPadding  false  android lineSpacingExtra  0dp    Adding these two lines to TextView xml will do the work  First attribute removes the padding reserved for accents and second attribute removes the spacing reserved to maintain proper space between two lines of text      Make sure not to add lineSpacingExtra  0dp  in multiline TextView as it might make the appearance clumsy

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Simple method worked   setSingleLine    setIncludeFontPadding false     If it not worked  then try to add this above that code   setLineSpacing 0f 0f      and set padding and margin to 0   If you need multi line  maybe you ll need to calculate exactly the height of padding top and bottom via temp single line  TextView  before and after remove padding    then apply decrease height result with negative padding or some Ghost Layout with translate Y  Lol

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To my knowledge this is inherent to most widgets and the amount of  padding  differs among phone manufacturers   This padding is really white space between the image border and the image in the 9 patch image file   For example on my Droid X  spinner widgets get extra white space than buttons  which makes it look awkward when you have a spinner inline with a button  yet on my wife s phone the same application doesn t have the same problem and looks great   The only suggestion I would have is to create your own 9 patch files and use them in your application   Ahhh the pains that are Android   Edited  Clarify padding vs white space

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