Remove space between stacked TextViews

Question

I have a vertical LinearLayout with two TextView inside it. The former contains a static text property (it\'s text never change) and the last conta

Answer 1

If you set includeFontPadding to false it helps.

android:includeFontPadding="false"

but if you know you don't have any descenders because you set

android:textAllCaps="true"

or you know there are no characters which have descender, you can make a custom TextView and set the height to the baseline.

public class ExTextView extends TextView {

    public ExTextView(Context context) {
        this(context, null);
    }

    public ExTextView(Context context, @Nullable AttributeSet attrs) {
        this(context, attrs, 0);
    }

    public ExTextView(Context context, @Nullable AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
    }

    @TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP)
    public ExTextView(Context context, @Nullable AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr, int defStyleRes) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr, defStyleRes);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
        setHeight(getBaseline());  // <--- Shrink size to baseline
        super.onDraw(canvas);
    }
}

The source code is included in my UiComponents test app. https://github.com/landenlabs/UiComponents