How to convert an Array to a List

If you have a non primitive array type, you can use the following code to convert it to a list:

public class ArrayToListConverter {
public static void main(String args[]){
Integer[] intArr = {2,4,6,8,10};
List<Integer> intList = new ArrayList<Integer>();
//Method 1 - Using for loop
for(int i:intArr){
intList.add(i);
}

//Method 2 - Via Arrays.asList
intList = Arrays.asList(intArr);

//

}

Method 1

Here, we are manually iterating through the elements in the list and adding them to an int array.

Method 2 

Here, we are using the Arrays.asList method. This returns a list corresponding to the array passed in. Note that this method wont work if the array is of primitive type like this:

int[] intArr = {2,4,6,8,10};