Give an album a folder on the tablet, through Android's folder picker

Android's only export destination was the library on the server
(ExportTarget::available), because writing to the device goes through
the Storage Access Framework and nothing did. An album's folder on the
tablet is now chosen in the system's tree picker — which has its own
"Create new folder" — and exports are written into it with
DocumentsContract.

The picker answers through onActivityResult, and the main activity is
NativeActivity, whose result is not ours. FolderPicker is a translucent
activity that only asks: it starts ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT_TREE, takes a
persistable grant (a folder is chosen once and exported to for months),
leaves the URI in a static, and finishes. Rust polls it from a Slint
timer — one static call, rather than a registered native method and a
thread to deliver on.

Two things the first build on the tablet got wrong, recorded where they
are fixed:

- Our classes must be loaded through Context.getClassLoader(). The
  class of what ndk_context holds is a framework class from the boot
  loader, which reports every class in the APK as not found.
- What ndk_context holds is the application context, not the activity,
  and starting an activity from it throws without FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK.

Saf.write creates the document (or, under Overwrite, reopens the one of
that name with "wt" so a shorter file does not keep the old tail) and
returns the name the provider actually gave it, since SAF renames on a
collision by itself; the album records that name. A tree URI reads in
the sidebar as its folder ("Pictures/Web"), not as a content:// string.
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android:theme="@style/ManualTheme"
android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden|screenSize|screenLayout|uiMode" />
<!-- FR-EXP-10: the system's folder picker, for an album's folder on
this device. NativeActivity's onActivityResult is not ours, so
this activity exists only to ask and hand the answer back (see
FolderPicker.java). Translucent and without a title so nothing
of it shows but the system chooser; not exported, and started by
class name from dr_ui::saf. -->
<activity
android:name="paris.tourolle.darkroom.FolderPicker"
android:exported="false"
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar"
android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden|screenSize|screenLayout|uiMode" />
<!-- FR-PLAT-AND-6, outbound. Android has refused file:// URIs
between apps since API 24 — handing one out raises
FileUriExposedException in *this* process — so an exported JPEG