[General Questions and Answers] GalaxyA325G:
Is there a tool that will

manually

create a shortcut to an "activity" if you already know the unique package & activity name?

An "Activity" is, essentially, a displayed "page" inside of any Android app (where the Android Settings are just another Android app).

Note: There are many shortcut-creation apps which will automatically create a homescreen shortcut for you if you can navigate through the hundreds of Activities in seemingly random order - but this question is about

MANUALLY

creating the shortcut when all you know is the unique name of both the package name and of the Android Activity.

All the shortcut-creation apps seem to force you to pick the existing Android "Activity" out of a given (huge) list based on package names, where those lists, if you've never seen them, are horribly jumbled up (and where the internal search engines stink).

Shortcut Maker, by Rushikesh Kamewar (free, ad free, gsf free, rated 4.4)

Shortcut Creator, by AlexTernHome (free, ad free, gsf free, rated 4.3)

QuickShortcutMaker, by sika524 (free, ad free, gsf free, ratred 4.3)

Activity Launcher, by Adam Szalkowski (free, ad free, gsf free, rated 4.1)

Activities, by J. Cunningham (free, ad free, gsf free, rated 4.0)

Shortcut, by Any Studio (free, ad free, gsf free, rated 3.0)

App Shortcut Maker, by Zombomob (free, ad free, gsf free, rated 3.2)

And yet, sometimes you already know the unique name of the Activity, which often you can get using an app such as "Shortcut Widgets".

Shortcut Widgets (+ Inspector), by Hamed Nikbakht (free, ad free, gsf free, rated 3.7)

While that is a trivial example (because you can easily ALSO find that specific Activity in the various shortcut-creator apps), there are many times when you KNOW the unique package and activity name, but you don't know how to get to that activity in the Android settings.

In many of these situations where either you can't

find

the unique "Package" & "Activity" names in the shortcut-maker apps, but you KNOW the unique Package & Activity name (perhaps gleaned from using Shortcut Widgets & Inspector), you might want to

manually

type in that name into the homescreen shortcut, much like how you can type a "Target" into a Windows shortcut (or on Android, much like how you can type a URL

manually

into any homescreen URL shortcut maker app).

Website Shortcut, by Deltac Development (free, ad free, gsf free, rated 4.3)

But so far I have been unsuccessful at finding a tutorial explaining HOW to

MANUALLY

create a shortcut to an Android settings Activity when all you know is the unique Activity name.

My goal is to find an app that creates the shortcut by me simply typing those unique Package names & Activity names into that app (instead of searching for them).

In my search, I also found Android "Intent" apps in addition to the shortcut creators, where they "might" help out if only I knew the proper syntax (or had good examples).

Instant Intent, by TrianguloY (free, ad free, gsf free, rated 4.7)

Intent Launcher, by Ville Valta (free, ad free, gsf free, rated 4.3)

Intent, by krow (free, ad free, gsf free, rated 4.3)

IntentTask, by Marco Stornelli (free, ad free, gsf free, rated 4.3)

Intent Viewer, by maigolab (free, ad free, gsf free, rated 2.1)

In a class of their own are the following free ad-free utilities.

Shortcut To URL, by Mio (free, ad free, rated 4.2)

Shortcut Widgets, by Hamed Nikbakht (free, ad free, gsf free, rated 3.7)

Website Shortcut, by Deltac Development (free, ad free, gsf free, rated 4.3)

In summary, if you already know the Android "Activity" unique name, does an Android utility exist which will create a shortcut to that activity when you manually type in the name (and you use the proper syntax when you do so)?

Note: Since you know the unique package and activity name, if you want to automatically create the shortcut using a shortcut tool, that step-by-step tutorial has already been explained; but this thread is about

manually

creating that shortcut simply by typing it in.

Is there a tutorial extent which shows how to

manually

create a homescreen shortcut to an Android "Activity" when you know the only two unique names that matter?

You know the unique name of the package, and,

You know the unique name of the activity.

Note this capability of opening ANY activity (even hidden and non-public activities) is useful at times, such as when you wish to create a one-tap shortcut to select any band on the phone (which is a hidden activity that has no GUI so you can only get to it by creating your own shortcut to it).

This (hidden) Android activity will bring up band selection options on any Android phone