How to increase the size of an array in Java?

Instead of using an array, use an implementation of java.util.List such as ArrayList. An ArrayList has an array backend which holds values in a list, but the array size is automatically handles by the list.

ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
list.add("some string");

You can also convert the list into an array using list.toArray(new String[list.size()]) and so forth for other element types.

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