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Ramesh
Ramesh

Reputation: 1802

How to add an item to an ArrayList in Kotlin?

How to add an item to an ArrayList in Kotlin?

Upvotes: 125

Views: 219180

Answers (6)

Siddharth Kumar
Siddharth Kumar

Reputation: 168

This is a code sample of how to add an item in a String ArrayList in Kotlin.

val arrayList: ArrayList<String> = ArrayList()
arrayList.add("January")

Upvotes: 3

shekhar g h
shekhar g h

Reputation: 1251

What I was doing was storing a list of strings in the viewmodel and accessing it in the fragment.

I created a dialog fragment and was editing the string in the dialog and returning the string value to the main fragment using navigation components.

When entering the dialog fragment the viewmodel was being cleared and the list with it. so when I wud pass the list to the adapter it would not really show anything and have a reference error.

Also, when passing list to adapter add ,toList()

`adapter.subMItList(viewModel.lableList.toList())`

Upvotes: 0

The MJ
The MJ

Reputation: 473

You can add a new item to an array using +=, for example:

private var songs: Array<String> = arrayOf()
   fun add(input: String) {
        songs += input
    }

Upvotes: 11

guenhter
guenhter

Reputation: 12167

If you have a MUTABLE collection:

val list = mutableListOf(1, 2, 3)
list += 4

If you have an IMMUTABLE collection:

var list = listOf(1, 2, 3)
list += 4

note that I use val for the mutable list to emphasize that the object is always the same, but its content changes.

In case of the immutable list, you have to make it var. A new object is created by the += operator with the additional value.

Upvotes: 95

Tarun Deep Attri
Tarun Deep Attri

Reputation: 8674

For people just migrating from java, In Kotlin List is by default immutable and mutable version of Lists is called MutableList.

Hence if you have something like :

val list: List<String> = ArrayList()

In this case you will not get an add() method as list is immutable. Hence you will have to declare a MutableList as shown below :

val list: MutableList<String> = ArrayList()

Now you will see an add() method and you can add elements to any list.

Upvotes: 158

pokemzok
pokemzok

Reputation: 1709

If you want to specifically use java ArrayList then you can do something like this:

fun initList(){
    val list: ArrayList<String> = ArrayList()
    list.add("text")
    println(list)
}

Otherwise @guenhter answer is the one you are looking for.

Upvotes: 36

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