EditText - Gap between text and EditText's line

Question

When I insert text to my EditText field the text has an abnormal gap between itself and the EditText's line. Here's a printscreen from my terminal where you can see this gap I'm talking about, it is marked in red.

I've played around with text alignment and gravity but to no success.

Here's the XML:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
                xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
                android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
                android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
                android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
                tools:context=".MainActivity">

    <TableLayout
        android:id="@+id/startJourneyLinearLayout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:stretchColumns="1">

        <TableRow
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent">

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/startLocationTxtView"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_column="0"
                android:layout_gravity="start"
                android:text="@string/startLocation"
                android:gravity="center"
                android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"/>

            <EditText
                android:id="@+id/startLocation"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_column="1"
                android:gravity = "bottom"
                android:hint="Some text"
                android:inputType="text"/>

            <ImageView
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_column="2"
                android:src="@drawable/my_ic_location"/>
        </TableRow>

        <TableRow
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent">

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/endLocationTxtView"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_column="0"
                android:layout_gravity="start"
                android:gravity="center"
                android:text="@string/endLocation"
                android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"/>

            <EditText
                android:id="@+id/endLocation"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:layout_column="1"
                android:inputType="text"/>
        </TableRow>

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/goButton"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_gravity="center"
            android:text="@string/go"/>

    </TableLayout>

</RelativeLayout>

Can someone spot why this is happening and explain me how can I fix it?

--------------- EDIT -----------------------

I've updated the XML code I posted in the original question to the real XML code I've on my app as requested in a comment.

The first printscreen (the one above, is from a real device -> Galaxy S4 running Android 4.4.4 CyanogenMod) and here is a printscreen from the emulator using API 19

Answer 1

To change gap between EditText text and bottom line you can use android:paddingBottom

<EditText
     android:id="@+id/nameEditText"
     style="@style/DarkEditText"
     android:layout_width="match_parent"
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
     android:hint="@string/name"
     android:paddingBottom="20dp"/>

Replace paddingBottom value as per your requirement.

Answer 2

Try

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

instead of

android:layout_height="match_parent" on your EditText.

Answer 3

Try adding padding to edit text

<EditText
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:padding="10dp"
    android:hint="Hint"/>