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

Possible, you do not need make your view based on TextView. Try to extend View and write your text in onDraw().

Look at here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/32081250/1263771