Remove space between stacked TextViews

Try using negative margins. It may take a bit of playing with the numbers to get it right, but I've done it before and it worked out well.

android:layout_marginTop="-5dp"

Make baseline of the text equal to the bottom of the TextView.

public class BaselineTextView extends TextView {

    public BaselineTextView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
        int yOffset = getHeight() - getBaseline();
        canvas.translate(0, yOffset);
        super.onDraw(canvas);
    }

}

NOTE: To avoid chopping off descenders call setClipChildren(false) on your TextView's parent ViewGroup (android:clipChildren="false" in XML).

By default, a TextView includes some padding to leave space for accent characters. You can turn that off with:

 android:includeFontPadding="false"

or

 textView.setIncludeFontPadding(false)