76.4 Handling Intent Results

Since we are launching intents which will return a result, the registerForActivityResult() method (covered in the chapter entitled “Android Explicit Intents – A Worked Example”) needs to be used to create a launcher and declare a lambda to handle the returned data, for example:

val startOpenForResult = registerForActivityResult(

    ActivityResultContracts.StartActivityForResult()) {

        result: ActivityResult ->

    if (result.resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) {

        result.data?.let {

            val currentUri = it.data

            currentUri?.let {

                // Read file content...