title: Clear Android Maps history programmatically
body: <p>I want to programmatically clear the history of the android maps (and navigation) application.</p>
  
  <p>I know there is a way to clear the browser history via</p>
  
  <pre><code>Browser.clearSearches(getContentResolver());
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and the corresponding permission: <code>com.android.browser.permission.WRITE_HISTORY_BOOKMARKS</code>
  and this works fine (2.2.).</p>
  
  <p>I couldn't find any way to clear the Maps-History though.
  Clearing the google/history online doesn't help either.</p>
  
  <p>There are some apps in the market that promote to do that, so there must be an API for it, but i really couldn't find it yet.</p>
  
  <p>I also messed around a bit with CLEAR_APP_CACHE and CLEAR_APP_USER_DATA but seems like they are signed/root-only permissions and delte too much anyways.</p>