List and Map

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UtilsLib comes with it's own Map and List classes, named SparseMap and SparseList, both of which are built with optimized sorting and garbage collection. They are based on the idea of Android's SparseArray, only these include two key elements. First of all they implement the Map and List interface so that they can be used in conjunction with all other Map and List types. Secondly they both implement the Parcelable feature so that they can be disassembled and reassembled when parsing it though IPC.

When it comes down to speed, these two classes beats SparseArray, ArrayMap, HashMap and ArrayList. However comparing SparseMap to ArrayMap and HashMap might not be ideal considering that it only uses Interger as keys like SparseArray.

Example

List<String> mList = new SparseList<String>();
Map<Integer, String> mMap = new SparseMap<String>();

mList.add("");
mMap.put(10, "");