How to adjust line height in TextView with multiple type sizes?

Question

I have a TextView that holds a Spannable string. The string contains a bunch of text, the first word of which is double the typesize as the rest of the string.

The problem is that the line spacing between the first and second line is much larger than the line spacing between subsequent lines due to the increased size of the first word.

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The spannable string was created using the following code snippet:

    // Price     CharSequence text = "$30 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua."     final Pattern priceRegex = Pattern.compile("^(.[0-9]+)\\s.*");     final Matcher m = priceRegex.matcher(text!=null ? text : "");     if( m.matches() ) {         text = new SpannableString(text);         ((SpannableString)text).setSpan(new RelativeSizeSpan(2), 0, m.end(1), Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);     } 

How can I fix my TextView so that all lines have the same spacing?

Answer 1

You can try using one of these TextView properties:

android:lineSpacingMultiplier android:lineSpacingExtra 

to at least try to make all lines the same height (same as the first one).