build-settings-shortcut.sh: One-Tap Android Settings Shortcuts, Built From a Single Bash Script

AI;DR – This blog post and the script it describes were developed with significant help from Claude. If you don’t want to read “AI slop”, stop reading now. Some Android settings screens are buried several taps deep, and the one I reach for most often, the WiFi hotspot / tethering toggle, is a particularly annoying example. A while ago I described how to build a single hotspot-shortcut APK on a Linux box without root. That little app did exactly one thing, and it worked well enough that I wanted the same trick for a whole range of settings screens. build-settings-shortcut.sh is the result: a single, self-contained Bash script that generalizes that original hotspot shortcut to 20 different Settings screens. It produces a minimal Android APK whose only job is to open one specific Settings screen when you tap its icon. There is no UI of its own: the app launches the target settings activity and immediately closes again. You install it like any other app, and it shows up in your launcher…