Android TextView padding between lines

I have a TextView which displays a long text. I want to give some space between lines like in CSS with line-height property. How can I do it?

You can use lineSpacingExtra and lineSpacingMultiplier in your XML file.

If you want padding between text, try LineSpacingExtra="10sp"

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

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

Additional Info is on this page

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.

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

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

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.

You can use 2 attrs

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1. lineSpacingExtra: it use for dp spacing

android:lineSpacingExtra="4dp"

2. lineSpacingMultiplie: it use for relative scale

android:lineSpacingMultiplier="0.8"

As an extended answer to above solutions

Remember you can add <item name="android:lineHeight">16sp</item> for directly setting the line heights but as per the docs above line works like this -

Explicit height between lines of text. If set, this will override the values set for lineSpacingExtra and lineSpacingMultiplier.
        <attr name="lineHeight" format="dimension" />

So be sure to use either lineSpacingExtra & lineSpacingMultiplier or lineHeight and not both.

As of 16/11/2021, I use this line to increase the line space height:

android:lineHeight="25dp"

For me the other answers weren't helpful because maybe they updated the attribute and quite a lot of stuff changed in this version.