Broadcast receiver problem

Today I saw a weird bug. I had a broadcast receiver in one app's AndroidManifest.xml

<receiver android:name=".MyReceiver">

<intent-filter>

<action android:name="com.my.intent.update" />

</intent-filter>

</receiver>

and another app sent broadcast with the intent the first app had to handle.

Intent intent = new Intent("com.my.intent.update");

sendBroadcast(intent);

The problem was it never did. I spent some time and asked my co-worker to look at it with me. While looking I found the problem (pair programming works after all). I had an activity in the same manifest file that had a receiver that handled the same intent!

<activity android:label="Test" android:name=".HomeActivity"

android:launchMode="singleTask" android:configChanges="orientation">

<intent-filter>

<action android:name="com.my.intent.update" />

</intent-filter>

</activity>

I don't know why it was there but it made receiver never handle the intent.