Question

Is an empty Arraylist (with nulls as its items) be considered as null? So, essentially would the below statement be true:

if (arrayList != null) 

thanks

Answer 1

No.

An ArrayList can be empty (or with nulls as items) an not be null. It would be considered empty. You can check for am empty ArrayList with:

ArrayList arrList = new ArrayList();
if(arrList.isEmpty())
{
    // Do something with the empty list here.
}

Or if you want to create a method that checks for an ArrayList with only nulls:

public static Boolean ContainsAllNulls(ArrayList arrList)
{
    if(arrList != null)
    {
        for(object a : arrList)
            if(a != null) return false;
    }

    return true;
}