Android: Textview: Remove Spacing and Padding on Top and Bottom

With reflections (Not recommended as it's anti-pattern)

The drop down popup of the AutoCompleteTextView can be accessed internally by mPopup field. To get it with reflections:

// Java:

public static ListPopupWindow getPopup(AutoCompleteTextView autoCompleteTextView) {
    try {
        Field field = AutoCompleteTextView.class.getDeclaredField("mPopup");
        field.setAccessible(true);
        return (ListPopupWindow) field.get(autoCompleteTextView);
    } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return null;
}


//  Kotlin:

fun AutoCompleteTextView.getPopup(): ListPopupWindow? {
    try {
        val field = AutoCompleteTextView::class.java.getDeclaredField("mPopup")
        field.isAccessible = true
        return field.get(this) as ListPopupWindow
    } catch (e: NoSuchFieldException) {
        e.printStackTrace()
    } catch (e: IllegalAccessException) {
        e.printStackTrace()
    }
    return null
}

Then remove the padding by setting it to the parent view of the internal ListView:

// Java:

autoCompleteTextView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        ListPopupWindow popup = getPopup(autoCompleteTextView);
        if (popup != null) {
            ListView listView = popup.getListView();
            if (listView!= null)
                ((View) listView.getParent()).setPadding(0, 0, 0, 0);
        }
    }
});

// Kotlin

autoCompleteTextView.setOnClickListener {
    val popUp = autoCompleteTextView2.getPopup()?.listView?.parent
    if (popUp != null)
        (popUp as View).setPadding(0, 0, 0, 0)
}