In this tutorial, I will be sharing different ways to append an element to an Array in Java. After the creation of the Array, its size can not be changed. The different ways to append an element to an Array are as follow:
1. Creating new Array
2. Using ArrayList
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1. Creating new Array
We will create a newArray, greater than the size of the givenArray. In the below example we are adding a single element to the end of the Array.1. If the size of the givenArray is n then the size of the newArray will be n+1.
2. Copy the elements from the givenArray to the newArray. We will be using Arrays.copyOf method.
Note: Arrays.copyOf(givenArray, newSize) is used to create a new Array of size newSize.
3. Insert(add) the new element at the end of the Array.
import java.util.*;
public class JavaHungry {
public static void main(String args[]) {
// Initialize givenArray int[] num = {2,4,6,8,10};
// Print the givenArray
System.out.println("Given array is : "+Arrays.toString(num));
/* Using Arrays.copyOf(int[],int) method
to create an Array of new size */
num = Arrays.copyOf(num, num.length+1);
// Calculate the new length of the array
int length = num.length;
/* Store the new element at the end of
the Array */
num[length - 1] = 12;
// Print the new Array
System.out.println("New array is : "+Arrays.toString(num));
}
}
Output:
Given array is : [2, 4, 6, 8, 10]
New array is : [2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12]
2. Using ArrayList
1. Create an ArrayList from the givenArray by using the asList() method.2. Add the element to the ArrayList using the add() method.
3. Convert the ArrayList to Array using the toArray() method.
import java.util.*;
public class JavaHungry {
public static void main(String args[]) {
// Initialize givenArray
Integer[] num = {3,6,9,12,15};
// Print the givenArray
System.out.println("Given array is : "+Arrays.toString(num));
/* Convert Array to ArrayList using
Arrays.asList() method */
ListInteger> arrlistObj =
new ArrayListInteger>(Arrays.asList(num));
// Add new element to the ArrayList
arrlistObj.add(18);
// Convert the ArrayList to Array
num = arrlistObj.toArray(num);
// Print the new Array
System.out.println("New array is : "+Arrays.toString(num));
}
}
Output:
Given array is : [3, 6, 9, 12, 15]
New array is : [3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18]
That's all for today, please mention in comments in case you have any questions related to append an element to an Array in java.
Reference:
Arrays.copyOf Java doc
