Android TextView padding between lines

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You can use lineSpacingExtra and lineSpacingMultiplier in your XML file.

If you want padding between text try LineSpacingExtra="10dp"

<TextView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="180dp"
        android:lineSpacingExtra="10dp"/>

you can look into android:lineSpacingExtra and apply it to your XML

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or the related method public void setLineSpacing (float add, float mult)

Additional Info here

This supplemental answer shows the effect of changing the line spacing.

You can set the multiplier and/or extra spacing with

textView.setLineSpacing(float add, float mult)

Or you can get the values with

int lineHeight = textView.getLineHeight();
float add = tvSampleText.getLineSpacingExtra();          // API 16+
float mult = tvSampleText.getLineSpacingMultiplier();    // API 16+

where the formula is

lineHeight = fontMetricsLineHeight * mult + add

The default multiplier is 1 and the default extra spacing is 0.

You can use TextView.setLineSpacing(n,m) function.

Adding android:lineSpacingMultiplier="0.8" can make the line spacing to 80%.

You can use lineSpacingExtra and lineSpacingMultiplier in your XML file.

lineSpacingExtra add extra spacing between lines of text of TextView

<TextView
    android:lineSpacingExtra="4dp" />

lineSpacingMultiplier works as scale factor for height of line space:

<TextView
    android:lineSpacingMultiplier="1.2" />

In other words, each line height will be height * multiplier + extra.