Set ContactListActivity as the Default Activity
The third task is to modify the AndroidManifest.xml file to open the ContactListActivity instead of the ContactActivity as the initial app activity. Open AndroidManifest.xml by double-clicking it in the Package Explorer. Switch to the XML view if it is not already open. Find the code that matches Listing 6.18 and switch the name and label attributes so that the activity with the intent filter is ContactListActivity and its label, and the other activity has the name ContactActivity and its label. To do this, delete the strikeout lines (these are the original lines) in Listing 6.19 and add the new lines.
Listing 6.19 Changing the Launch Activity
<activity android:name ...
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