ArrayList
LinkedList
class is a collection which can contain many objects of the same type, just like the ArrayList
.
The LinkedList
class has all of the same methods as the ArrayList
class because they both implement the List
interface.
This means that you can add items, change items, remove items and clear the list in the same way.
However, while the ArrayList
class and the LinkedList
class can be used in the same way, they are built very differently.
ArrayList
class has a regular array inside it.
When an element is added, it is placed into the array.
If the array is not big enough, a new, larger array is created to replace the old one and the old one is removed.
LinkedList
stores its items in “containers.”
The list has a link to the first container and each container has a link to the next container in the list.
To add an element to the list, the element is placed into a new container and that container is linked to one of the other containers in the list.
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