I am developing an app that uses NFC to perform P2P communication with a proprietary NFC reader/writer but I am having a really hard time debugging because Google Wallet is in the way. Whenever I am putting my phone in contact with my reader, the phone automatically opens the Google Wallet app even though my own app is in the foreground. I have tried to disable the Wallet app and force-stop it but it still continues to open.

I have two tech-lists for my app to subscribe on NDEF and NFCA intents and it works for NFCA intents. Whenever I scan a credit card or similar my app just reboots itself and does not open Google Wallet. Is it because my reader is an active tag that is emitting an RF-field that my phone picks up on?

I’m not looking for a long-term solution since this is just a prototype, I just want to get it working.