Added in API level 1

SparseBooleanArray

public class SparseBooleanArray
extends Object implements Cloneable

java.lang.Object
   ↳ android.util.SparseBooleanArray


SparseBooleanArrays map integers to booleans. Unlike a normal array of booleans there can be gaps in the indices. It is intended to be more memory efficient than using a HashMap to map Integers to Booleans, both because it avoids auto-boxing keys and values and its data structure doesn't rely on an extra entry object for each mapping.

Note that this container keeps its mappings in an array data structure, using a binary search to find keys. The 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%.

It is possible to iterate over the items in this container using keyAt(int) and valueAt(int). Iterating over the keys using keyAt(int) with ascending values of the index will return the keys in ascending order, or the values corresponding to the keys in ascending order in the case of valueAt(int).

Summary

Public constructors

SparseBooleanArray()

Creates a new SparseBooleanArray containing no mappings.

SparseBooleanArray(int initialCapacity)

Creates a new SparseBooleanArray containing no mappings that will not require any additional memory allocation to store the specified number of mappings.

Public methods

void append(int key, boolean value)

Puts a key/value pair into the array, optimizing for the case where the key is greater than all existing keys in the array.

void clear()

Removes all key-value mappings from this SparseBooleanArray.

SparseBooleanArray clone()

Creates and returns a copy of this object.

void delete(int key)

Removes the mapping from the specified key, if there was any.

boolean equals(Object that)

Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one.

boolean get(int key)

Gets the boolean mapped from the specified key, or false if no such mapping has been made.

boolean get(int key, boolean valueIfKeyNotFound)

Gets the boolean mapped from the specified key, or the specified value if no such mapping has been made.

int hashCode()

Returns a hash code value for the object.

int indexOfKey(int key)

Returns the index for which keyAt(int) would return the specified key, or a negative number if the specified key is not mapped.

int indexOfValue(boolean value)

Returns an index for which valueAt(int) would return the specified key, or a negative number if no keys map to the specified value.

int keyAt(int index)

Given an index in the range 0...size()-1, returns the key from the indexth key-value mapping that this SparseBooleanArray stores.

void put(int key, boolean value)

Adds a mapping from the specified key to the specified value, replacing the previous mapping from the specified key if there was one.

void removeAt(int index)

Removes the mapping at the specified index.

void setValueAt(int index, boolean value)

Directly set the value at a particular index.

int size()

Returns the number of key-value mappings that this SparseBooleanArray currently stores.

String toString()

Returns a string representation of the object.

This implementation composes a string by iterating over its mappings.

boolean valueAt(int index)

Given an index in the range 0...size()-1, returns the value from the indexth key-value mapping that this SparseBooleanArray stores.

Inherited methods

Public constructors

SparseBooleanArray

Added in API level 1
public SparseBooleanArray ()

Creates a new SparseBooleanArray containing no mappings.

SparseBooleanArray

Added in API level 1
public SparseBooleanArray (int initialCapacity)

Creates a new SparseBooleanArray containing no mappings that will not require any additional memory allocation to store the specified number of mappings. If you supply an initial capacity of 0, the sparse array will be initialized with a light-weight representation not requiring any additional array allocations.

Parameters
initialCapacity int

Public methods

append

Added in API level 1
public void append (int key, 
                boolean value)

Puts a key/value pair into the array, optimizing for the case where the key is greater than all existing keys in the array.

Parameters
key int

value boolean

clear

Added in API level 1
public void clear ()

Removes all key-value mappings from this SparseBooleanArray.

clone

Added in API level 1
public SparseBooleanArray clone ()

Creates and returns a copy of this object. The precise meaning of "copy" may depend on the class of the object. The general intent is that, for any object x, the expression:

 x.clone() != x
will be true, and that the expression:
 x.clone().getClass() == x.getClass()
will be true, but these are not absolute requirements. While it is typically the case that:
 x.clone().equals(x)
will be true, this is not an absolute requirement.

By convention, the returned object should be obtained by calling super.clone. If a class and all of its superclasses (except Object) obey this convention, it will be the case that x.clone().getClass() == x.getClass().

By convention, the object returned by this method should be independent of this object (which is being cloned). To achieve this independence, it may be necessary to modify one or more fields of the object returned by super.clone before returning it. Typically, this means copying any mutable objects that comprise the internal "deep structure" of the object being cloned and replacing the references to these objects with references to the copies. If a class contains only primitive fields or references to immutable objects, then it is usually the case that no fields in the object returned by super.clone need to be modified.

Returns
SparseBooleanArray a clone of this instance.

delete

Added in API level 1
public void delete (int key)

Removes the mapping from the specified key, if there was any.

Parameters
key int

equals

Added in API level 1
public boolean equals (Object that)

Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one.

The equals method implements an equivalence relation on non-null object references:

  • It is reflexive: for any non-null reference value x, x.equals(x) should return true.
  • It is symmetric: for any non-null reference values x and y, x.equals(y) should return true if and only if y.equals(x) returns true.
  • It is transitive: for any non-null reference values x, y, and z, if x.equals(y) returns true and y.equals(z) returns true, then x.equals(z) should return true.
  • It is consistent: for any non-null reference values x and y, multiple invocations of x.equals(y) consistently return true or consistently return false, provided no information used in equals comparisons on the objects is modified.
  • For any non-null reference value x, x.equals(null) should return false.

An equivalence relation partitions the elements it operates on into equivalence classes; all the members of an equivalence class are equal to each other. Members of an equivalence class are substitutable for each other, at least for some purposes.

Parameters
that Object: This value may be null.

Returns
boolean true if this object is the same as the obj argument; false otherwise.

get

Added in API level 1
public boolean get (int key)

Gets the boolean mapped from the specified key, or false if no such mapping has been made.

Parameters
key int

Returns
boolean

get

Added in API level 1
public boolean get (int key, 
                boolean valueIfKeyNotFound)

Gets the boolean mapped from the specified key, or the specified value if no such mapping has been made.

Parameters
key int

valueIfKeyNotFound boolean

Returns
boolean

hashCode

Added in API level 1
public int hashCode ()

Returns a hash code value for the object. This method is supported for the benefit of hash tables such as those provided by HashMap.

The general contract of hashCode is:

  • Whenever it is invoked on the same object more than once during an execution of a Java application, the hashCode method must consistently return the same integer, provided no information used in equals comparisons on the object is modified. This integer need not remain consistent from one execution of an application to another execution of the same application.
  • If two objects are equal according to the equals method, then calling the hashCode method on each of the two objects must produce the same integer result.
  • It is not required that if two objects are unequal according to the equals method, then calling the hashCode method on each of the two objects must produce distinct integer results. However, the programmer should be aware that producing distinct integer results for unequal objects may improve the performance of hash tables.

Returns
int a hash code value for this object.

indexOfKey

Added in API level 1
public int indexOfKey (int key)

Returns the index for which keyAt(int) would return the specified key, or a negative number if the specified key is not mapped.

Parameters
key int

Returns
int

indexOfValue

Added in API level 1
public int indexOfValue (boolean value)

Returns an index for which valueAt(int) would return the specified key, or a negative number if no keys map to the specified value. Beware that this is a linear search, unlike lookups by key, and that multiple keys can map to the same value and this will find only one of them.

Parameters
value boolean

Returns
int

keyAt

Added in API level 1
public int keyAt (int index)

Given an index in the range 0...size()-1, returns the key from the indexth key-value mapping that this SparseBooleanArray stores.

The keys corresponding to indices in ascending order are guaranteed to be in ascending order, e.g., keyAt(0) will return the smallest key and keyAt(size()-1) will return the largest key.

For indices outside of the range 0...size()-1, the behavior is undefined for apps targeting Build.VERSION_CODES.P and earlier, and an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException is thrown for apps targeting Build.VERSION_CODES.Q and later.

Parameters
index int

Returns
int

put

Added in API level 1
public void put (int key, 
                boolean value)

Adds a mapping from the specified key to the specified value, replacing the previous mapping from the specified key if there was one.

Parameters
key int

value boolean

removeAt

Added in API level 28
public void removeAt (int index)

Removes the mapping at the specified index.

For indices outside of the range 0...size()-1, the behavior is undefined.

Parameters
index int

setValueAt

Added in API level 29
public void setValueAt (int index, 
                boolean value)

Directly set the value at a particular index.

For indices outside of the range 0...size()-1, the behavior is undefined for apps targeting Build.VERSION_CODES.P and earlier, and an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException is thrown for apps targeting Build.VERSION_CODES.Q and later.

Parameters
index int

value boolean

size

Added in API level 1
public int size ()

Returns the number of key-value mappings that this SparseBooleanArray currently stores.

Returns
int

toString

Added in API level 1
public String toString ()

Returns a string representation of the object.

This implementation composes a string by iterating over its mappings.

Returns
String a string representation of the object.

valueAt

Added in API level 1
public boolean valueAt (int index)

Given an index in the range 0...size()-1, returns the value from the indexth key-value mapping that this SparseBooleanArray stores.

The values corresponding to indices in ascending order are guaranteed to be associated with keys in ascending order, e.g., valueAt(0) will return the value associated with the smallest key and valueAt(size()-1) will return the value associated with the largest key.

For indices outside of the range 0...size()-1, the behavior is undefined for apps targeting Build.VERSION_CODES.P and earlier, and an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException is thrown for apps targeting Build.VERSION_CODES.Q and later.

Parameters
index int

Returns
boolean