How do I clear the text in Android TextView?

Question

So I have an Android program like so:

package com.example.androiddemo;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;

public class AndroidDemo extends Activity {
    String[] messages = {"Short Text",
                         "I want to show some really long text" +
                         "on the display of the phone. " +
                         "Having run out of ideas on what to type, " +
                         "I am adding this text which makes absolutely " +
                         "no sense."};
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        final Button add = (Button) findViewById(R.id.addBtn);
        final Button clear = (Button) findViewById(R.id.clrBtn);
        final EditText text = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.display);

        add.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                if(v == add){
                    text.setText(messages[new java.util.Random().nextInt(messages.length)]);
                }else if(v == clear){
                    text.setText("");
                }
            }
        });
    }
}  

The button to add text to the TextView works perfectly fine however the text never clears.
My belief was that the operation of TextView would be analogous to JTextField or JTextArea where setting the text to "" clears it.

How do I clear the text?

Answer 1

Try this,

public class AndroidDemo extends Activity implements OnClickListener{
Button add, clear;
EditText text;
@Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        add = (Button) findViewById(R.id.addBtn);
        clear = (Button) findViewById(R.id.clrBtn);
        text = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.display);
        add.setOnClickListener(this);
        clear.setOnClickListener(this);
        }
@Override
public void onClick(View v){
    if(v == add){
        text.setText(messages[new java.util.Random().nextInt(messages.length)]);
    }else if(v == clear){
        text.setText("");
    }
    }
  }