How I can remove the unnecessary top padding of the Navigation view?

Question

There's an unnecessary top padding between the header and the first item shown in this picture.

How it can be removed?

you can find the source code here: https://github.com/chrisbanes/cheesesquare

Answer 1

You can override predefined dimensions at your dimens.xml as;

<dimen name="design_navigation_padding_top_default" tools:override="true">0dp</dimen>
<dimen name="design_navigation_separator_vertical_padding" tools:override="true">0dp</dimen>
<dimen name="design_navigation_padding_bottom" tools:override="true">0dp</dimen>

Other possible values are here: https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_support/blob/master/design/res/values/dimens.xml