Hi folks. I'm brand new to Android development. First post here. Apologies if I've missed something horrible like which board this post should go into.

I'm trying to create an "alternate calling behavior", that is when you make a call (from a contact, dialed, etc), I want Android to give you a choice of how to go about doing it, i.e. the Dialer (or whatever already handles this intent) or MyActivity (which right now is just helloAndroid)

As I understand it, it should just be a matter of declaring an intent filter for the appropriate intent Like so:

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          <intent-filter>
               <action android:name="android.intent.action.CALL"/>
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            </intent-filter>


Alas this doesn't appear to be enough, and I'm stuck as to why not.

Is the filter not specific enough or just plain wrongly declared?
Does the emulator come with a user preference for the dialer so I'll never get the option to launch my Activity?

I'm just n00bish enough I don't know where to look next.

Any ptrs would be appreciated

-Joe