intent on kotlin on android studio not working

Question

i was working on a demo for kotlin app and separately these activities work but when i tried to link them up with intent ntn is responding to the button that was supposed to send u to the next activity it just doesnt do anyting and on the logcat there is no error showing just the info on where the screen touched so pls i still cant see where the problem lies after trying up all day

    package com.example.myapplication

import android.content.Intent
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity
import android.os.Bundle
import android.provider.AlarmClock.EXTRA_MESSAGE
import android.view.View
import android.widget.Button
import android.widget.Toast
import kotlinx.android.synthetic.main.activity_main.*

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)

val tost:Button =findViewById(R.id.toast)
val nxt:Button =findViewById(R.id.next)
        tost.setOnClickListener{tst()}
        nxt.setOnClickListener{tnxt()}
        }
    private fun tst(){
        Toast.makeText(this,"hello world",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()

    }

    private fun tnxt(){
          Intent(this, diceRoll::class.java)
        startActivity(intent)
    }

    
}

//and the diceroll class

package com.example.myapplication


import android.content.Intent

import android.os.Bundle
import android.widget.Button
import android.widget.TextView
import android.widget.Toast
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity
import kotlinx.android.synthetic.main.dice_roll.*

class diceRoll : AppCompatActivity() {

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.dice_roll)

   var bttn:Button =findViewById(R.id.button)

        bttn.setOnClickListener {
           rolled()
        }
    }
    private fun rolled(){
        var txt:TextView=findViewById(R.id.no)
        val randomInt=(1..6).random()
        val resultStr=randomInt.toString()
        txt.setText(resultStr)


    }
}

Answer 1

Short answer:

Change your function from

private fun tnxt(){
      Intent(this, diceRoll::class.java)
    startActivity(intent)
}

to:

private fun tnxt(){
    startActivity(Intent(this, diceRoll::class.java))
}

The problem:

With this line Intent(this, diceRoll::class.java) you're creating an Intent but never use it.

private fun tnxt(){
    Intent(this, diceRoll::class.java)
    startActivity(intent)
}

Alternatively,

private fun tnxt(){
    val diceRollIntent = Intent(this, diceRoll::class.java) //assigns the intent to a variable which we can use
    startActivity(diceRollIntent)
}