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

Im not sure if i understand what you are meaning, but the text inside the textview is going to be align to the top if you use gravity=top on the text-view.

If you put a backgrund color on you textview you might see better what is happening...

I guess you problem is that the textview is centered since you use fill_parent on both height and width on the parent LinearLayout. The textview seems to be the only child so try putting gravity=top on the LinearLayout...

Thats the only thing i could think of...