Strange UnsupportedOperationException when calling list.remove(0)

Question

I have this method which takes a varargs of Strings, creates a List out of it, and then tries to remove the first element of the list.

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Answer 1

The returned list acts as a view for the backed array. You can not modify the list directly but only through the backed array. However, you cannot resize the array.