Intent ACTION_CALL is not being intercepted by my application

Question

There's an application with a button that when pressed is using the startActivity method with the ACTION_CALL intent.

This is how its called:

public void call(String number)
{
    Intent myIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_CALL);
    myIntent.setData(Uri.parse("tel:" + number);
    startActivity(myIntent);
}

I have made a dialer app with the permission:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CALL_PHONE" />

And my manifest looks like this:

 <intent-filter>
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
 <intent-filter>
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.DIAL" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
    <data android:scheme="tel" />
</intent-filter>
<intent-filter>
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.CALL_BUTTON" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
</intent-filter>

Every other question I've seen is suggesting this exact declarations to be made in the manifest.

I've checked and there are no defaults set on the Google dialer app which comes with the phone.

So why won't a pop up dialog show with an option to choose my application as the dialer to catch that intent?

Answer 1

I have finally got it to work. After adding a bunch of intent filters it started working:

<intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.NEW_OUTGOING_CALL" />

            <action android:name="android.intent.action.CALL" />
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.CALL_BUTTON" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <data android:scheme="tel" />

        </intent-filter>

        <intent-filter android:priority="100" >

            <action android:name="android.intent.action.DIAL" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <data android:scheme="tel" />

        </intent-filter>

        <intent-filter>

            <action android:name="android.intent.action.CALL_BUTTON" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />

        </intent-filter>

        <intent-filter>

            <action android:name="android.intent.action.CALL_PRIVILEGED" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <data android:scheme="tel" />

        </intent-filter>

        <intent-filter>

            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.DIAL" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
            <data android:scheme="tel" />

        </intent-filter>

I think the first one did the magic.