How to remove the top and bottom space on textview of Android

Question

When I include the below XML to layout file, I can see the below image. If you see it, you could realize that the TextView has top and bot

Answer 1

android:background="@android:drawable/editbox_background"

use it according to you change it that you want editbox_background. because android provide some build in background like above code choose according to your requirement. May be it is help full to you.

Answer 2

My way for fixing this is pretty hacky, but I managed to get the text to sit where I wanted by setting the height of the text view as static and fiddling with it until it just barely fit the text. In my case, the font style I was using had a height of 64sp so I set the height of my textview to 50sp and it worked okay. I also had to set foreground_gravity to bottom.