Saving output somewhere else

I wanted to allow users to save text data that is on their phone to third-party applications like to email or on Google Drive.  The best way to do this seems to be using ACTION_SEND intents as described here.

Code like this, will put the text you want to send into the body of an email message or will create a new document on Google Drive.

public void send_data() 
{
    // Create an intent to send data out
    Intent send_intent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
    send_intent.setType("text/plain");


    String data_to_send += "Sending this data string";      
    send_intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, data_to_send);

    startActivity(send_intent);
}

Or, you can put the text data into an attachment with something like this.

public void send_data() 
{
    String FILENAME = "sample.txt";
    FileOutputStream fos;
    try
    {
        // Set the file as world readable so other apps can read it.
        fos = openFileOutput(FILENAME, Context.MODE_WORLD_READABLE);

        // Update the file and close it.
        String data_to_send += "Sending this data string";
        fos.write(line_to_send.getBytes());
        fos.close();
    } catch (IOException e ){}
  
    // Create an intent to send data out
    String full_path_file = getFilesDir()+"/"+FILENAME;
    Intent send_intent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
    send_intent.setType("text/plain");
    send_intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.parse("file://"+full_path_file));
    startActivity(send_intent);
}

This all works well, but when I try to open the document in google drive, I find that it isn't a native Google drive document, and the only thing I can do is view it.

I will update later again if I can find a way to improve this.