用于自定义对象列表

   public List<Contact> removeDuplicates(List<Contact> list) {
    // Set set1 = new LinkedHashSet(list);
    Set set = new TreeSet(new Comparator() {

        @Override
        public int compare(Object o1, Object o2) {
            if (((Contact) o1).getId().equalsIgnoreCase(((Contact) o2).getId()) /*&&
                    ((Contact)o1).getName().equalsIgnoreCase(((Contact)o2).getName())*/) {
                return 0;
            }
            return 1;
        }
    });
    set.addAll(list);

    final List newList = new ArrayList(set);
    return newList;
}

如前所述，应该使用实现Set接口的类而不是List来确保元素的唯一性。如果必须保持元素的顺序，则可以使用SortedSet接口;TreeSet类实现了该接口。

public Set<Object> findDuplicates(List<Object> list) {
        Set<Object> items = new HashSet<Object>();
        Set<Object> duplicates = new HashSet<Object>();
        for (Object item : list) {
            if (items.contains(item)) {
                duplicates.add(item);
                } else { 
                    items.add(item);
                    } 
            } 
        return duplicates;
        }

如果你想从ArrayList中删除重复项意味着找到下面的逻辑，

public static Object[] removeDuplicate(Object[] inputArray)
{
    long startTime = System.nanoTime();
    int totalSize = inputArray.length;
    Object[] resultArray = new Object[totalSize];
    int newSize = 0;
    for(int i=0; i<totalSize; i++)
    {
        Object value = inputArray[i];
        if(value == null)
        {
            continue;
        }

        for(int j=i+1; j<totalSize; j++)
        {
            if(value.equals(inputArray[j]))
            {
                inputArray[j] = null;
            }
        }
        resultArray[newSize++] = value;
    }

    long endTime = System.nanoTime()-startTime;
    System.out.println("Total Time-B:"+endTime);
    return resultArray;
}

这是正确的(如果您关心HashSet的开销的话)。

 public static ArrayList<String> removeDuplicates (ArrayList<String> arrayList){
    if (arrayList.isEmpty()) return null;  //return what makes sense for your app
    Collections.sort(arrayList, String.CASE_INSENSITIVE_ORDER);
    //remove duplicates
    ArrayList <String> arrayList_mod = new ArrayList<>();
    arrayList_mod.add(arrayList.get(0));
    for (int i=1; i<arrayList.size(); i++){
        if (!arrayList.get(i).equals(arrayList.get(i-1))) arrayList_mod.add(arrayList.get(i));
    }
    return arrayList_mod;
}

LinkedHashSet可以做到这一点。

String[] arr2 = {"5","1","2","3","3","4","1","2"};
Set<String> set = new LinkedHashSet<String>(Arrays.asList(arr2));
for(String s1 : set)
    System.out.println(s1);

System.out.println( "------------------------" );
String[] arr3 = set.toArray(new String[0]);
for(int i = 0; i < arr3.length; i++)
     System.out.println(arr3[i].toString());

/ /输出:5、1、2、3、4