Like the title says. If I put an object like a string, int, long, or even a custom object into an array list how big can it be without it returning an error? I'm not asking about the maximum size of the list but the individual element(s) going into the list. I know that a string object can't be larger than 2 or 4 GB but i'm not sure if objects in an array list have special restrictions on them.
If you were thinking that there might be problems with putting "large" objects into an ArrayList, there can't be any such problems because you don't put objects into an ArrayList. You put references to objects into ArrayLists.
I'm a little confused now. I thought I was actually putting things into the list. And get(int index) returns the object at the index and not the String equivalent, right?
Wrong. You're not putting objects into the list, but references to these objects. Likewise, the get method returns a reference to the stored element. As such, the only size limitation of an ArrayList is the number of elements it can store, which is theoretically Integer.MAX_VALUE (2^31-1). In practice, the available memory determines the limit.
