How I can remove the unnecessary top padding of the Navigation view?

Question

There\'s an unnecessary top padding between the header and the first item shown in this picture.

Answer 1

You should read the Ian's answer. The NavigationView follows the Material guidelines and you should not break these specs.

However, currently, you can override this value in your project.

Just add to your dimens.xml:

0dp

Warning:

• in the future the Android Team can change this value!
• the same value is applied to each separator in the list

The NavigationView uses a LinearLayout as header view. You can see this layout in the source code: