Android: Last line of textview cut off

Question

I have a horizontal LinearLayout containing a TextView followed by a Spinner next to it. This LinearLayout is dynamically

Answer 1

When this occurs, you should ensure that the TextView is not growing larger than it's container -

If a TextView is set to wrap_content and it's container (or an ancestor container) doesn't leave room for the TextView to grow into it can be occluded.

If that's not the case, it's also possible the onMeasure() of the TextView sometimes doesn't correctly measure the tails of letters, non-latin characters or the effects from text being italic. You can correct for this by setting a global style for your TextView so it will be picked up without needed to change your entire code base:

Ensure that you're application/activities use a custom theme like so:

The answer by @Rynadt was really helpful in getting to the above stage. Setting the gravity of the Text inside the View ensures on some devices that occlusion never takes place (The text is correctly fitted inside the view), on others a helping hand with padding of an sp value, ensures that the tails et al are accounted for with a TextSize specific value.