How to move specific item in array list to the first item

What you want is a very expensive operation in an ArrayList. It requires shifting every element between the beginning of the list and the location of C down by one.

However, if you really want to do it:

int index = url.indexOf(itemToMove);url.remove(index);url.add(0, itemToMove);

If this is a frequent operation for you, and random access is rather less frequent, you might consider switching to another List implementation such as LinkedList. You should also consider whether a list is the right data structure at all if you're so concerned about the order of elements.

Do this:

1. Remove the element from the list: ArraylistObj.remove(object);
2. Add the element back to the list at specific position: ArrayListObj.add(position, Object);

As per your code use this :

url.remove("C");url.add(0,"C");

Another solution, just keep swaping from 0 to indexOf(itemToMove).

This is my Kotlin version:

val list = mutableListOf('A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E')(0..list.indexOf('C')).forEach {    Collections.swap(list, 0, it)}

Sorry I am unfamiliar with Java but learned a little Kotlin. But the algorithm is the same.