Modify Superscript implementation to align to the top (stackoverflow-1, stackoverflow-2)

#35704 (comment)

Author: fabOnReact

ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactSuperscriptSpan.java

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+ */
+
+package com.facebook.react.views.text;
+
+import android.text.TextPaint;
+import android.text.style.MetricAffectingSpan;
+
+/**
+ * Instances of this class are used to place reactTag information of nested text react nodes into
+ * spannable text rendered by single {@link TextView}
+ */
+public class ReactTopAlignSpan extends MetricAffectingSpan implements ReactSpan {
+  double ratio = 0.4;
+
+  public ReactTopAlignSpan() {}
+
+  public ReactTopAlignSpan(double ratio) {
+    this.ratio = ratio;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void updateDrawState(TextPaint paint) {
+    paint.baselineShift += (int) (paint.ascent() * ratio);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void updateMeasureState(TextPaint paint) {
+    paint.baselineShift += (int) (paint.ascent() * ratio);
+  }
+}

ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/text/ReactTopAlignSpan.java

@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ private static void buildSpannableFromFragment(
                 new TextInlineViewPlaceholderSpan(reactTag, (int) width, (int) height)));
       } else if (end >= start) {
         if (textAttributes.mVerticalAlign != null && textAttributes.mVerticalAlign.equals("top")) {
-          ops.add(new SetSpanOperation(start, end, new ReactSuperscriptSpan()));
+          ops.add(new SetSpanOperation(start, end, new ReactTopAlignSpan()));
         }
         if (textAttributes.mIsAccessibilityLink) {
           ops.add(new SetSpanOperation(start, end, new ReactClickableSpan(reactTag)));