How to create an ArrayList from array in Java?

Question

I have an array that looks like this

String[] array = {"a", "b", "c"};

I want to convert this into a List..

List<String> list = ????

Answer 1

Possible solutions for this are -

If immutable list is required

Arrays.asList(array);

If non-immutable list is required

new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList(array));

Using Java Streams API

We can also use Java Streams API for this and in case we also want to transform and perform some operations on the elements then this will be a better approach to do things in a structured approach and also in minimal steps.

Arrays.stream(array).collect(Collectors.toList());

Example with the transformation to make all characters in uppercase.

Arrays.stream(array).map(String::toUpperCase).collect(Collectors.toList());