How to align the text to top of TextView?

Question

How to align the text to top of a TextView?
Equivalent Android API for Swings setInsets()?
that is top of text should start be in (0,0) of TextView

Answer 1

In your .xml, write that:

android:gravity="center|top"

The first "center" align your line horizontally in the center and the next "top" align vertically up.