How to remove all the polylines from a map
Update
If you want to removes all markers, polylines, polygons, overlays, etc from the map use
mMap.clear(); //it will remove all additional objects from map
and if you only want to remove all or single polyline, polygon, marker etc see @DiskDev Answer above. In this case you must keep track of every single additional object you add to map
I know this is very old question but I noticed that this is very common need. I found another way and I wanted to share it.
Here is the basic idea:
Polyline polylineFinal;
PolylineOptions polylineOptions;
loop {
polylineOptions.add( new LatLng( latitude, longitude ) );
}
polylineOptions.width(2);
polylineOptions.color(Color.RED);
polylineOptions.geodesic(true);
polylineFinal = map.addPolyline (polylineOptions);
Map's "addPolyline" method returns a single polyline which contains all the points. When I need to remove the points, I call polylineFinal's "remove" method.
polylineFinal.remove();
Keep track of the Polyline as you add it to the map:
Polyline polyline = this.mMap.addPolyline(new PolylineOptions().....);
Then when you want to remove it:
polyline.remove();
If you have lots of Polylines, just add them to a List as they are put on the map:
List<Polyline> polylines = new ArrayList<Polyline>();
for(....)
{
polylines.add(this.mMap.addPolyline(new PolylineOptions()....));
}
And when you want to delete:
for(Polyline line : polylines)
{
line.remove();
}
polylines.clear();
The key is to keep a reference to the Polyline objects and call .remove() on each one.