How to decrease margin and padding of editText programmatically (android)

Question

I have editText which by default leaves lots of space. I added backgroud for textView, cause editText backgroud is not possible.

When I execute command: editText.setHeight(50); of no matter what integer it gives me same result:

My text gets cropped. I think somehow I need to reduce editText margins to fit my text here.

Main problem is that there is to much space between rows in first picture.

Answer 1

You can do like this

        int reducedValue =5;

        editText .setPadding(editText .getPaddingLeft()-reducedValue,
                editText .getPaddingTop()-reducedValue,
                editText .getPaddingRight()-reducedValue,
                editText .getPaddingBottom()-reducedValue);

        editText.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(editText .getPaddingLeft()-reducedValue,
                editText .getPaddingTop()-reducedValue,
                editText .getPaddingRight()-reducedValue,
                editText .getPaddingBottom()-reducedValue);