Fixed saveArrayToFile overwriting previous arrays

app/src/main/java/com/pirouette/chibichat/MainActivity.kt

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
         val stopTokenArray: ArrayList<String> = ArrayList()
         val subStringArray: ArrayList<String> = ArrayList()
         var msgData = ArrayList<Message>()
-        val savedStoryData = ArrayList<SavedData>()
+        var savedStoryData = ArrayList<SavedData>()
         var convArray = mutableListOf<String>()
 
 
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
         recyclerview.layoutManager = LinearLayoutManager(this)
         adapter = RvAdapter(msgData)
         recyclerview.adapter = adapter
+        savedStoryData = loadArrayFromFile(this)
         btnSend.setOnClickListener()
         {
             LoadData()
@@ -278,7 +279,6 @@ class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
             }
         } catch (e: Exception) {
             e.printStackTrace()
-            msgData.add(Message("System: " + e.toString(), 2))
             ArrayList()
         }
     }

build.gradle

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // Top-level build file where you can add configuration options common to all sub-projects/modules.
 plugins {
-    id 'com.android.application' version '7.4.1' apply false
-    id 'com.android.library' version '7.4.1' apply false
+    id 'com.android.application' version '8.0.0' apply false
+    id 'com.android.library' version '8.0.0' apply false
     id 'org.jetbrains.kotlin.android' version '1.8.21' apply false
 }

gradle.properties

@@ -20,4 +20,6 @@ kotlin.code.style=official
 # Enables namespacing of each library's R class so that its R class includes only the
 # resources declared in the library itself and none from the library's dependencies,
 # thereby reducing the size of the R class for that library
-android.nonTransitiveRClass=true
+android.nonTransitiveRClass=true
+android.defaults.buildfeatures.buildconfig=true
+android.nonFinalResIds=false

gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #Wed May 31 18:53:53 AST 2023
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.5-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.0-bin.zip
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists