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Yes

Tell us about the problem

Labels render differently in iOS than in Android. In iOS, the text inside is vertically centered, in Android it's top aligned.

Which platform(s) does your issue occur on?

Both

Please provide the following version numbers that your issue occurs with:

See playground

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https://play.nativescript.org/?template=play-ng&id=GXFhEd&v=2

The above Label has no logic applied to it. You can see that in iOS, the text is vertically centered, while in Android, it's top aligned.

The 2nd span has the following logic applied to force it to be vertically centered:

                el.android.setGravity(el.android.getGravity() & 0xffffffdf);

This should be standard behavior in android to make the behavior consistent between the two platforms.