Cannot start new Intent by setClassName with different package in Android

setClassName take a Package Context as first param setClassName(Context packageContext, String className):

Intent intent = new Intent();
if(index == 0) {
  intent.setClassName("com.example.pkg1", "com.example.pkg1.Act1");
} else {
  intent.setClassName("com.example.pkg1", "com.example.pkg1.Act2");
  startActivity(intent);
}

and in

<activity android:name="com.example.pkg2.Act" />
<activity android:name="com.example.pkg1.Act1" />
<activity android:name="com.example.pkg1.Act2" />

or you try this :

if(index == 0) {
  Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN)
    .addCategory(intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER)
    .setClassName("com.example.pkg1", "com.example.pkg1.Act1")
    .addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK)
    .addFlags(Intent.FLAG_FROM_BACKGROUND)
    .setComponent(new ComponentName("com.example.pkg1", "com.example.pkg1.Act1"));
  getApplicationContext().startActivity(intent);
} else {
  Intent intent  = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN)
    .addCategory(intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER)
    .setClassName("com.example.pkg1", "com.example.pkg1.Act2")
    .addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK)
    .addFlags(Intent.FLAG_FROM_BACKGROUND)
    .setComponent(new ComponentName("com.example.pkg1", "com.example.pkg1.Act2"));
  getApplicationContext().startActivity(intent);
}

The first param is the applicationId located in the build.gradle file

The second param is full path to of the class with its package. for example: intentObj.setClassName("applicatioId", "com.youCompany.yourAppName.YourClassName")