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ArrayList Methods

Sophie Anderson

Sophie Anderson

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Study Guide Overview

This study guide covers ArrayList methods in Java. It explains adding elements to the beginning, middle, and end of an ArrayList. It also discusses accessing, removing, and modifying elements. The guide uses examples to demonstrate size(), get(), add(), remove(), and set() methods, emphasizing zero-indexing and index shifting.

Note: This will use arrayOne from Topic 6.1, which is {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10}.

In this course, there are a few methods from the ArrayList class that you are expected to know and use for the following four topics. We will be talking about them and their functionalities below.

Adding Elements to the End Of an ArrayList

After we call the ArrayList constructor, we have an empty ArrayList. After that, we need to add elements to this ArrayList! How? We use the following method:

  • boolean add(E obj) This has a boolean return because this method returns true to show that the element has been successfully added.

Let's try to recreate arrayOne from the Unit 6 Guide and make it into an ArrayList!

import java.util.ArrayList;

ArrayList integerList = new ArrayList(); integerList.add(3); integerList.add(4); integerList.add(5); integerList.add(5); integerList.add(5); integerList.add(5); integerList.add(5); integerList.add(6); integerList.add(7); integerList.add(8); integerList.add(9); integerList.add(10);

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Question 1 of 14

Which method is used to add an element to the end of an ArrayList? 🤔

add(int index, E obj)

set(int index, E obj)

add(E obj)

remove(int index)