You can uninstall or removes an installed libplatform-hardware-api1-dev package itself from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) through the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get remove libplatform-hardware-api1-dev
If you would like to remove libplatform-hardware-api1-dev and it's dependent packages which are no longer needed from Ubuntu,
$ sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove libplatform-hardware-api1-dev
If you use with purge options to libplatform-hardware-api1-dev package all the configuration and dependent packages will be removed.
$ sudo apt-get purge libplatform-hardware-api1-dev
If you use purge options along with auto remove, will be removed everything regarding the package, It's really useful when you want to reinstall again.
$ sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove libplatform-hardware-api1-dev