How to remove TextView top margin?

Question

I do have a problem with TextView. I don\'t want to have any margin/padding above it.

Answer 1

I had the same issue where setting android:includeFontPadding=false did not help. The best solution I could find in reasonable time was to override the TextView's onDraw method and to adjust the canvas for the difference between the font metrics' top and ascent values:

FontMetricsInt fontMetricsInt;
@Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
    if (adjustTopForAscent){
        if (fontMetricsInt == null){
            fontMetricsInt = new FontMetricsInt();
            getPaint().getFontMetricsInt(fontMetricsInt);
        }
        canvas.translate(0, fontMetricsInt.top - fontMetricsInt.ascent);
    }
    super.onDraw(canvas);
}