Removing android phone app

I have source the code of android 2.1, and I want to remove phone app from it. But I am not able to remove it. At list first I want to remove it from launcher that it should not be visible in launcher but in manifest file of Phone app I can not able to find launcher category. I don't know what to d开发者_开发知识库o?

Please remove all

<category andorid:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />

in packages/apps/Contacts/AndroidManifest.xml, I think it will work fine.

Or try to remove Contacts.apk (but this may not work because you may get crash again.)

If you want to remove the phone app completely from your phone, then it's as easy as deleting /system/app/Phone.apk. If you want to compile a framework that does not show the phone app in the launcher, then you will need to modify the launcher, not the phone app.