diff --git a/pico/AndroidManifest.xml b/pico/AndroidManifest.xml
index 54a7924..a7634e2 100755
--- a/pico/AndroidManifest.xml
+++ b/pico/AndroidManifest.xml
@@ -72,22 +72,6 @@
             </intent-filter>
         </activity>
 
-        <activity android:enabled="true" android:name=".Pico"
-            android:hasCode="false" android:label="@string/app_name"
-            android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar">
-            <intent-filter>
-                <action android:name="android.intent.action.START_TTS_ENGINE" />
-                <category android:name="android.intent.category.tts_engine.PICO" />
-                <category android:name="android.intent.category.tts_lang.eng" />
-                <category android:name="android.intent.category.tts_lang.eng.USA" />
-                <category android:name="android.intent.category.tts_lang.eng.GBR" />
-                <category android:name="android.intent.category.tts_lang.fra" />
-                <category android:name="android.intent.category.tts_lang.deu" />
-                <category android:name="android.intent.category.tts_lang.ita" />
-                <category android:name="android.intent.category.tts_lang.spa" />
-            </intent-filter>
-        </activity>
-
         <provider android:name=".providers.SettingsProvider"
             android:authorities="com.svox.pico.providers.SettingsProvider"  />
     </application>
diff --git a/pico/src/com/svox/pico/Pico.java b/pico/src/com/svox/pico/Pico.java
deleted file mode 100755
index b8ab7d1..0000000
--- a/pico/src/com/svox/pico/Pico.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright (C) 2009 The Android Open Source Project
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-package com.svox.pico;
-
-import android.app.Activity;
-import android.os.Bundle;
-
-/*
- * The Java portion of this TTS plugin engine app does nothing.
- * This activity is only here so that the native code can be
- * wrapped up inside an apk file.
- *
- * The file path structure convention is that the native library
- * implementing TTS must be a file placed here:
- * /data/data/<PACKAGE_NAME>/lib/libtts<ACTIVITY_NAME_LOWERCASED>.so
- * Example:
- * /data/data/com.svox.pico/lib/libttspico.so
- */
-
-public class Pico extends Activity {
-    @Override
-    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
-        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
-        // The Java portion of this does nothing.
-        // This activity is only here so that everything
-        // can be wrapped up inside an apk file.
-        finish();
-    }
-}