77.5 Creating a New Storage File

When the New button is selected, the application will need to trigger an ACTION_CREATE_DOCUMENT intent configured to create a file with a plain-text MIME type. When the user interface was designed, the New button was configured to call a method named newFile(). It is within this method that the appropriate intent needs to be launched.

Remaining in the MainActivity.kt file, implement this method as follows:

package com.ebookfrenzy.storagedemo

 

import android.app.Activity

import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity

import android.os.Bundle

import android.content.Intent

import android.view.View

import android.net.Uri

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class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

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    fun newFile(view: View) {

        val intent = Intent(Intent.ACTION_CREATE_DOCUMENT)

 

        intent.addCategory(Intent...