Java ArrayList how to add elements at the beginning

Question

I need to add elements to an ArrayList queue whatever, but when I call the function to add an element, I want it to add the element at the beginning of the arra

Answer 1

You may want to look at Deque. it gives you direct access to both the first and last items in the list.

Answer 2

I think the implement should be easy, but considering about the efficiency, you should use LinkedList but not ArrayList as the container. You can refer to the following code:

import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;

public class DataContainer {

    private List<Integer> list;

    int length = 10;
    public void addDataToArrayList(int data){
        list.add(0, data);
        if(list.size()>10){
            list.remove(length);
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        DataContainer comp = new DataContainer();
        comp.list = new LinkedList<Integer>();

        int cycleCount = 100000000;

        for(int i = 0; i < cycleCount; i ++){
            comp.addDataToArrayList(i);
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

I had a similar problem, trying to add an element at the beginning of an existing array, shift the existing elements to the right and discard the oldest one (array[length-1]). My solution might not be very performant but it works for my purposes.

 Method:

   updateArray (Element to insert)

     - for all the elements of the Array
       - start from the end and replace with the one on the left; 
     - Array [0] <- Element

Good luck

Answer 4

you can use this code

private List myList = new ArrayList();
private void addItemToList(Object obj){
    if(myList.size()<10){
      myList.add(0,obj);
    }else{
      myList.add(0,obj);
      myList.remove(10);
    }
}

Answer 5

import com.google.common.collect.Lists;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * @author Ciccotta Andrea on 06/11/2020.
 */
public class CollectionUtils {

    /**
     * It models the prepend O(1), used against the common append/add O(n)
     * @param head first element of the list
     * @param body rest of the elements of the list
     * @return new list (with different memory-reference) made by [head, ...body]
     */
    public static <E> List<Object> prepend(final E head, List<E> final body){
        return Lists.asList(head, body.toArray());
    }

    /**
     * it models the typed version of prepend(E head, List<E> body)
     * @param type the array into which the elements of this list are to be stored
     */
    public static <E> List<E> prepend(final E head, List<E> body, final E[] type){
        return Lists.asList(head, body.toArray(type));
    }
}

Answer 6

You can use list methods, remove and add

list.add(lowestIndex, element);
list.remove(highestIndex, element);