Android APIs
public class

ArrayMap

extends SimpleArrayMap<K, V>
implements Map<K, V>
java.lang.Object
   ↳ android.support.v4.util.SimpleArrayMap<K, V>
     ↳ android.support.v4.util.ArrayMap<K, V>

Class Overview

ArrayMap is a generic key->value mapping data structure that is designed to be more memory efficient than a traditional HashMap, this implementation is a version of the platform's ArrayMap that can be used on older versions of the platform. It keeps its mappings in an array data structure -- an integer array of hash codes for each item, and an Object array of the key/value pairs. This allows it to avoid having to create an extra object for every entry put in to the map, and it also tries to control the growth of the size of these arrays more aggressively (since growing them only requires copying the entries in the array, not rebuilding a hash map).

If you don't need the standard Java container APIs provided here (iterators etc), consider using SimpleArrayMap instead.

Note that this implementation is not intended to be appropriate for data structures that may contain large numbers of items. It is generally slower than a traditional HashMap, since lookups require a binary search and adds and removes require inserting and deleting entries in the array. For containers holding up to hundreds of items, the performance difference is not significant, less than 50%.

Because this container is intended to better balance memory use, unlike most other standard Java containers it will shrink its array as items are removed from it. Currently you have no control over this shrinking -- if you set a capacity and then remove an item, it may reduce the capacity to better match the current size. In the future an explicit call to set the capacity should turn off this aggressive shrinking behavior.

Summary

Public Constructors
ArrayMap()
ArrayMap(int capacity)
Create a new ArrayMap with a given initial capacity.
ArrayMap(SimpleArrayMap map)
Create a new ArrayMap with the mappings from the given ArrayMap.
Public Methods
boolean containsAll(Collection<?> collection)
Determine if the array map contains all of the keys in the given collection.
Set<Entry<K, V>> entrySet()
Return a Set for iterating over and interacting with all mappings in the array map.
Set<K> keySet()
Return a Set for iterating over and interacting with all keys in the array map.
void putAll(Map<? extends K, ? extends V> map)
Perform a put(Object, Object) of all key/value pairs in map
boolean removeAll(Collection<?> collection)
Remove all keys in the array map that exist in the given collection.
boolean retainAll(Collection<?> collection)
Remove all keys in the array map that do not exist in the given collection.
Collection<V> values()
Return a Collection for iterating over and interacting with all values in the array map.
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Inherited Methods
From class android.support.v4.util.SimpleArrayMap
From class java.lang.Object
From interface java.util.Map

Public Constructors

public ArrayMap ()

public ArrayMap (int capacity)

Create a new ArrayMap with a given initial capacity.

public ArrayMap (SimpleArrayMap map)

Create a new ArrayMap with the mappings from the given ArrayMap.

Public Methods

public boolean containsAll (Collection<?> collection)

Determine if the array map contains all of the keys in the given collection.

Parameters
collection The collection whose contents are to be checked against.
Returns
  • Returns true if this array map contains a key for every entry in collection, else returns false.

public Set<Entry<K, V>> entrySet ()

Return a Set for iterating over and interacting with all mappings in the array map.

Note: this is a very inefficient way to access the array contents, it requires generating a number of temporary objects.

Note:

the semantics of this Set are subtly different than that of a HashMap: most important, the Map.Entry object returned by its iterator is a single object that exists for the entire iterator, so you can not hold on to it after calling Iterator.next.

Returns
  • a set of the mappings

public Set<K> keySet ()

Return a Set for iterating over and interacting with all keys in the array map.

Note: this is a fairly inefficient way to access the array contents, it requires generating a number of temporary objects.

Returns
  • a set of the keys.

public void putAll (Map<? extends K, ? extends V> map)

Perform a put(Object, Object) of all key/value pairs in map

Parameters
map The map whose contents are to be retrieved.

public boolean removeAll (Collection<?> collection)

Remove all keys in the array map that exist in the given collection.

Parameters
collection The collection whose contents are to be used to remove keys.
Returns
  • Returns true if any keys were removed from the array map, else false.

public boolean retainAll (Collection<?> collection)

Remove all keys in the array map that do not exist in the given collection.

Parameters
collection The collection whose contents are to be used to determine which keys to keep.
Returns
  • Returns true if any keys were removed from the array map, else false.

public Collection<V> values ()

Return a Collection for iterating over and interacting with all values in the array map.

Note: this is a fairly inefficient way to access the array contents, it requires generating a number of temporary objects.

Returns
  • a collection of the values contained in this map.