How to convert a byte array to a hex string in Java?

Question

I have a byte array filled with hex numbers and printing it the easy way is pretty pointless because there are many unprintable elements. What I need is the exact hexcode in

Answer 1

A Guava solution, for completeness:

import com.google.common.io.BaseEncoding;
...
byte[] bytes = "Hello world".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
final String hex = BaseEncoding.base16().lowerCase().encode(bytes);

Now hex is "48656c6c6f20776f726c64".