Take n random elements from a List?

Question

How can I take n random elements from an ArrayList? Ideally, I\'d like to be able to make successive calls to the take() method to get an

Answer 1

Simple and clear

   // define ArrayList to hold Integer objects
    ArrayList arrayList = new ArrayList<>();

    for (int i = 0; i < maxRange; i++) {
        arrayList.add(i + 1);
    }

    // shuffle list
    Collections.shuffle(arrayList);

    // adding defined amount of numbers to target list
    ArrayList targetList = new ArrayList<>();
    for (int j = 0; j < amount; j++) {
        targetList.add(arrayList.get(j)); 
    }

    return targetList;