How to remove the top and bottom space on textview of Android

Question

When I include the below XML to layout file, I can see the below image. If you see it, you could realize that the TextView has top and bot

Answer 1

This is the code that saved our day. It was adapted using mono C# code from maksimko:

public class TopAlignedTextView extends TextView {

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

    /*This is where the magic happens*/
    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas){

        float offset = getTextSize() - getLineHeight();
        canvas.translate(0, offset);
        super.onDraw(canvas);
    }
}

Still had to play around with textView.setIncludeFontPadding(false) because we were aligning TextViews with different font sizes.