Java 9 ArrayList how to count number of elements   

In this 3 different ways of counting elements of ArrayList are shown:

• Collections.frequency(arrayList, "A3");
• using streams
• private method using streams

In this example:

• count number of occurrences of element with value - A3
• count all elements occurrences

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.function.Function;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;

public class ArrayListCount {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ArrayList<String> arrayList = new ArrayList<>();
        arrayList.add("A1");
        arrayList.add("A2");
        arrayList.add("A3");
        arrayList.add("A4");
        arrayList.add("A3");
        arrayList.add("A3");
        arrayList.add("A5");

        //
        // Using frequency method of Collections
        //
        int frequency = Collections.frequency(arrayList, "A3");
        System.out.println(frequency);

        //
        // Using streams since java 8
        //
        Map<String, Long> counts =
                arrayList.stream().collect(Collectors.groupingBy(e -> e, Collectors.counting()));

        System.out.println(counts);

        //
        // private method and streams since java 8
        //
        count(arrayList);
    }

    private static void count(List<String> items) {
        Map<String, Long> result =
                items.stream().collect(
                        Collectors.groupingBy(
                                Function.identity(), Collectors.counting()
                        )
                );
        result.forEach((item, value) -> System.out.println(item + " - " + value));
    }
}

result:

3
{A1=1, A2=1, A3=3, A4=1, A5=1}
A1 - 1
A2 - 1
A3 - 3
A4 - 1
A5 - 1