how to sort an ArrayList in ascending order using Collections and Comparator

Question

How to sort an ArrayList in ascending order using Comparator? I know how to sort it in descending order using:

Comparator mycompar         


        

Answer 1

Sort By Value

  public Map sortByValue(Map map, final boolean ascending) {
            Map result = new LinkedHashMap();
            try {
                List list = new LinkedList(map.entrySet());

                Collections.sort(list, new Comparator() {
                    @Override
                    public int compare(Object object1, Object object2) {
                        if (ascending)
                            return ((Comparable) ((Map.Entry) (object1)).getValue())
                                    .compareTo(((Map.Entry) (object2)).getValue());
                        else
                            return ((Comparable) ((Map.Entry) (object2)).getValue())
                                    .compareTo(((Map.Entry) (object1)).getValue());

                    }
                });

                for (Iterator it = list.iterator(); it.hasNext();) {
                    Map.Entry entry = (Map.Entry) it.next();
                    result.put(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
                }

            } catch (Exception e) {
                Log.e("Error", e.getMessage());
            }

            return result;
        }