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

Try android:includeFontPadding="false" to see if it helps. In my experience that will help a little bit, but there's no way of reducing the TextView dimensions to the exact pixel-perfect text size.

The only alternative, which may or may not give better results, is to cheat a bit and hard-wire the dimensions to match the text size, e.g. "24sp" instead of "wrap_content" for the height.

I had the same problem. Attribute android:includeFontPadding="false" does not work for me. I've solved this problem in this way:

public class TextViewWithoutPaddings extends TextView {    private final Paint mPaint = new Paint();    private final Rect mBounds = new Rect();    public TextViewWithoutPaddings(Context context) {        super(context);    }    public TextViewWithoutPaddings(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {        super(context, attrs);    }    public TextViewWithoutPaddings(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);    }    @Override    protected void onDraw(@NonNull Canvas canvas) {        final String text = calculateTextParams();        final int left = mBounds.left;        final int bottom = mBounds.bottom;        mBounds.offset(-mBounds.left, -mBounds.top);        mPaint.setAntiAlias(true);        mPaint.setColor(getCurrentTextColor());        canvas.drawText(text, -left, mBounds.bottom - bottom, mPaint);    }    @Override    protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);        calculateTextParams();        setMeasuredDimension(mBounds.width() + 1, -mBounds.top + 1);    }    private String calculateTextParams() {        final String text = getText().toString();        final int textLength = text.length();        mPaint.setTextSize(getTextSize());        mPaint.getTextBounds(text, 0, textLength, mBounds);        if (textLength == 0) {            mBounds.right = mBounds.left;        }        return text;    }}

android:includeFontPadding="false" is pretty good but it does not get it precisely. sometimes you want border line accuracy so you can figure it out yourself by applying negative margins:

try setting your bottom and top margins to a negative value.

something like this:

android:layout_marginTop="-5dp"android:layout_marginBottom="-5dp"

adjust the values accordingly.