Clear the canvas area
<p>I have made a custom view which is refereed from xml layout. I added a button for clearing the view. Now I want to clear the canvas area upon clicking. I added an onClick event in xml layout file.Now how n where do I add the code for clearing the whole view/canvas? I have just added few portion of code. (this is not clearing anything). I have added my activity,view and layout file in order as below.</p>

<pre><code>public class CustomViewActivity extends Activity {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

    }

    public void clearLine(View v) {

    new CustomView(CustomViewActivity.this, null).clearCanvas();        
  } 

}

public class CustomView extends View {

    private Paint paint = new Paint();
      private Path path = new Path();
      public Boolean clearCanvas = false;

      public CustomView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
            super(context, attrs, defStyle);         
        }

    public CustomView(Context context,AttributeSet attrs ) {
        super(context,attrs);
        paint.setAntiAlias(true);
        paint.setColor(Color.BLUE);
        paint.setTextSize(20);
        paint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE);
        paint.setStrokeJoin(Paint.Join.ROUND);
        paint.setStrokeWidth(5f);
    }

    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
    if(clearCanvas)
        {  // Choose the colour you want to clear with.
            canvas.drawColor(Color.TRANSPARENT, PorterDuff.Mode.CLEAR);
            //canvas.drawColor(0, Mode.CLEAR);
            clearCanvas = false;            
        }

        super.onDraw(canvas);
        canvas.drawText("Hello World", 5, 30, paint);
        canvas.drawPath(path, paint);

    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {

    //int action = event.getAction() &amp; MotionEvent.ACTION_MASK;

       float eventX = event.getX();
        float eventY = event.getY();

        switch (event.getAction()) {
          case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
            path.moveTo(eventX, eventY);

            return true;
          case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE: 
            path.lineTo(eventX, eventY);
            break;
          case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
            // nothing to do 
           break;
          default:
            return false;
        }

        // Schedules a repaint.
        invalidate();
        return true;

    }
    public void clearCanvas(){

            clearCanvas = true;
            postInvalidate();
            //canvas.drawColor(0, Mode.CLEAR);

        }

}

&lt;RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" &gt;


           &lt;com.example.CustomViewEvent.CustomView
               android:id="@+id/customView"
               android:layout_width="fill_parent"
               android:layout_height="wrap_content" /&gt;

           &lt;Button
               android:id="@+id/button1"
               android:layout_width="wrap_content"
               android:layout_height="wrap_content"
               android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
               android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
               android:layout_marginBottom="28dp"
               android:onClick="clearLine"
               android:text="CLEAR" /&gt;

&lt;/RelativeLayout&gt;
</code></pre>
