Java List generics syntax for primitive types

Question

I want to make a growable array of bytes. I.e a list. In c# would usally do the following syntax

List<byte> mylist = new List<byte>();

where as in java this syntax does not work and I have googled around and found the below code

List myList = new ArrayList();

but that is not what I want. Any idea's where I am going wrong?

Answer 1

You could also use TByteArrayList from the GNU Trove library.

Answer 2

Use the wrapper class Byte:

List<Byte> mylist = new ArrayList<Byte>();

Then, because of autoboxing, you can still have:

for (byte b : mylist) {

}