Converting 'ArrayList<String> to 'String[]' in Java

Starting from Java-11, one can use the API Collection.toArray(IntFunction<T[]> generator) to achieve the same as:

List<String> list = List.of("x","y","z");
String[] arrayBeforeJDK11 = list.toArray(new String[0]);
String[] arrayAfterJDK11 = list.toArray(String[]::new); // similar to Stream.toArray

In Java 8, it can be done using

String[] arrayFromList = fromlist.stream().toArray(String[]::new);

In Java 11, we can use the Collection.toArray(generator) method. The following code will create a new array of strings:

List<String> list = List.of("one", "two", "three");
String[] array = list.toArray(String[]::new)

from java.base's java.util.Collection.toArray().

    List<String> list = new ArrayList<>();
    list.add("a");
    list.add("b");
    list.add("c");
    String [] strArry= list.stream().toArray(size -> new String[size]);

Per comments, I have added a paragraph to explain how the conversion works. First, List is converted to a String stream. Then it uses Stream.toArray to convert the elements in the stream to an Array. In the last statement above "size -> new String[size]" is actually an IntFunction function that allocates a String array with the size of the String stream. The statement is identical to

IntFunction<String []> allocateFunc = size -> { 
return new String[size];
};   
String [] strArry= list.stream().toArray(allocateFunc);

You can convert List to String array by using this method:

 Object[] stringlist=list.toArray();

The complete example:

ArrayList<String> list=new ArrayList<>();
    list.add("Abc");
    list.add("xyz");

    Object[] stringlist=list.toArray();

    for(int i = 0; i < stringlist.length ; i++)
    {
          Log.wtf("list data:",(String)stringlist[i]);
    }