Extra space on top of text in textview?

Question

I've defined my layout something like this -

`

<ImageView
    android:id="@+id/first_icon"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:src="@drawable/square" />

<ImageView
    android:id="@+id/second_big_image"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_toRightOf="@id/first_icon"
    android:scaleType="fitXY"
    android:src="@drawable/square_big" />

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/line1"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textColor="#000000"
    android:layout_alignTop="@id/second_big_image"
    android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/second_big_image"
    android:text="AND Here is the text" />

`

And on screen I see it something like this. I don't understand why there is a bit of space on top of the text. Even if I'm aligning it to top of the second image it is still not aligned. How do I do it?

I've already tried android:alignParentTop="true" and also android:gravity="top". But nothing seems to be working. May be this is the behavior of android textview but I still want to get rid of that space.

Setting android:layout_marginTop="-4dip" makes it appear like what I want. But is it the right way of doing it?

Answer 1

That space is just the spacing of the font. It has a slight bit of space above it, as does any font (in this case, I guess that's 4dp).

The only way I can think of to achieve what you want (aside from what you tried) is this:

android:includeFontPadding="false"

If that doesn't work, I'd just do it the way you're doing it now (with the negative top margin).

Ah, the joy of fonts and displays! ^_^

Answer 2

I Think Text view has no problem it is attached to the top (see image image Textview has setted with red BG). The problem is with the Font a you can see the second line also has the gap from the first line so this space is attached with font can try other custom font to check this.