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

Modified this answer a little bit to use kotlin class and extend AppCompatTextView, trimming vertical padding.

It allows setting android:fontFamily. Method calculateTextParams() moved from onDraw() for performance. Not tested for multiple lines of text:

import android.content.Context
import android.graphics.Canvas
import android.graphics.Rect
import android.util.AttributeSet
import androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatTextView

class NoPaddingTextView : AppCompatTextView
{
  private val boundsRect = Rect()
  private val textParams = calculateTextParams()

  constructor(context : Context?)
  : super(context)

  constructor(context : Context?, attrs : AttributeSet?)
  : super(context, attrs)

  constructor(context : Context?, attrs : AttributeSet?, defStyleAttr : Int)
  : super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr)

  override fun onDraw(canvas : Canvas)
  {
    with(boundsRect) {
      paint.isAntiAlias = true
      paint.color = currentTextColor
      canvas.drawText(textParams,
                      -left.toFloat(),
                      (-top - bottom).toFloat(),
                      paint)
    }
  }

  override fun onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec : Int, heightMeasureSpec : Int)
  {
    super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec)
    calculateTextParams()
    setMeasuredDimension(boundsRect.width() + 1, -boundsRect.top + 1)
  }

  private fun calculateTextParams() : String
  {
    return text.toString()
    .also {text ->
      text.length.let {textLength ->
        paint.textSize = textSize
        paint.getTextBounds(text, 0, textLength, boundsRect)
        if(textLength == 0) boundsRect.right = boundsRect.left
      }
    }
  }
}