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[Request]: Android support for `Intent.createChooser` for `ACTION_EDIT`

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Description

### Plugin
share_plus

### Description
We would like to request to have the plugin support for `Intent.createChooser` with `ACTION_EDIT` as well as the `ACTION_SEND`.

### Problematic Use Case
As an example use case, in Android I want to `Share` a word docx file to `Microsoft Word` to open the file, but `Microsoft Word` doesn't appear in the list of apps to share to.

For iOS, by using the [`UIActivityViewController`](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiactivityviewcontroller), it seems to achieve the equivalent of `Intent.createChooser` of both `ACTION_SEND` and `ACTION_EDIT`. In the case of sharing a word docx file, I can share it to `Microsoft Word` and edit the file with it.

It would be great to have parity between iOS and Android.
And my request/question is to have (or whether it's possible to have) support for Android to have parity with iOS functionality.

### Other Solutions Considered
I have actually attempted to achieve this function of `Intent.createChooser` with `ACTION_EDIT` through `android_intent_plus`, but wasn't successful.

I have no Android native experience outside of Flutter, so it could be due to my unfamiliarity.
If `android_intent_plus` is the suggested solution to my case, please let me know, and any guidance on it (if possible) would be greatly appreciated.

### Proposal
We are currently using https://github.com/enfold/file_edit_launcher to achieve this use case of `Intent.createChooser` with `ACTION_EDIT`.

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