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Published inMay 2021
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Neil Smyth
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Neil Smyth has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, including roles in software development and enterprise-level UNIX and Linux system administration. In addition to a bachelor’s degree in information technology, he also holds A+, Security+, Network+, Project+, and Microsoft Certified Professional certifications and is a CIW Database Design Specialist. Neil is the co-founder and CEO of Payload Media, Inc. (a technical content publishing company), and the author of the Essentials range of programming and system administration books.
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70.4 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.java 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.widget.EditText;

import android.content.Intent;

import android.view.View;

import android.net.Uri;

 

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

 

    private static EditText textView;

 

    private static final int CREATE_REQUEST_CODE = 40;

    private...

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Neil Smyth

Neil Smyth has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, including roles in software development and enterprise-level UNIX and Linux system administration. In addition to a bachelor’s degree in information technology, he also holds A+, Security+, Network+, Project+, and Microsoft Certified Professional certifications and is a CIW Database Design Specialist. Neil is the co-founder and CEO of Payload Media, Inc. (a technical content publishing company), and the author of the Essentials range of programming and system administration books.
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