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    <p>I'm trying to launch the Android tethering settings menu from within a program, however it's one of those semi-hidden menus with a slash in its name (com.android.settings/.tether.Tether) and I'm not sure what I should be referring to it as. This is what I've tried so far:</p> <pre><code>Intent intent = new Intent(); intent.setClassName("com.android.settings", "com.android.settings/.tether.Tether"); startActivity(intent); </code></pre> <p>I've also tried "com.android.settings/" in the setClassName line</p> <p>However, either way, it says it can't find the class:</p> <blockquote> <p>I/ActivityManager( 51): Starting activity: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cmp=com.android.settings/com.android.settings/.tether.Tether } D/AndroidRuntime( 254): Shutting down VM W/dalvikvm( 254): threadid=3: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4001b188) E/AndroidRuntime( 254): Uncaught handler: thread main exiting due to uncaught exception E/AndroidRuntime( 254): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.zzzz.launcher/com.zzzz.launcher.Launcher}: > android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: Unable to find explicit activity class > {com.android.settings/com.android.settings/.tether.Tether}; have you declared this activity in your AndroidManifest.xml?</p> </blockquote> <p>I have the following activity listed in my manifest file:</p> <pre><code>&lt;activity android:name="com.android.settings/.tether.Tether" /&gt; </code></pre> <p>(And I've also tried escaping the slash with a backslash, there)</p> <p>There doesn't appear to be any associated Settings.* value associated with it, so the usual way of launching like the following, wouldn't work:</p> <pre><code>startActivity(new Intent(Settings.ACTION_TETHER_SETTINGS)); </code></pre> <p>...but even so, I would still like to learn how I can launch it with its classname, because there are other classes with slashes in their names (such as com.android.settings./proxySelector) that I'd like to launch in a similar way.</p> <p>Cheers,</p> <p>Paul</p> <p>(Further stacktrace:)</p> <blockquote> <p>I/ActivityManager( 59): Starting activity: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] flg=0x10200000 cmp=com.zzzz.launcher/.ProxySet bnds=[163,240][237,319] } I/ActivityManager( 59): Start proc com.zzzz.launcher for activity com.zzzz.launcher/.ProxySet: pid=397 uid=10040 gids={1015} I/ActivityManager( 59): Starting activity: Intent { cmp=com.android.settings/.ProxySelector } D/AndroidRuntime( 397): Shutting down VM W/dalvikvm( 397): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x4001d800) E/AndroidRuntime( 397): FATAL EXCEPTION: main E/AndroidRuntime( 397): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.zzzz.launcher/com.zzzz.launcher.ProxySet}: android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: Unable to find explicit activity class {com.android.settings/.ProxySelector}; have you declared this activity in your AndroidManifest.xml?</p> </blockquote>
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