Sort items of an ArrayList in Java
Description
The following code shows how to sort items of an ArrayList.
Example
// w w w .ja v a 2 s . c o m
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
List<String> colours = new ArrayList<String>();
colours.add("red");
colours.add("green");
colours.add("blue");
colours.add("yellow");
colours.add("cyan");
colours.add("white");
colours.add("black");
Collections.sort(colours);
System.out.println(colours);
Collections.sort(colours, Collections.reverseOrder());
System.out.println(colours);
}
}
The code above generates the following result.