Using arrays in the Snake game

In the Bullet Hell game, we declared an arbitrarily sized array of bullets, hoping that the player would never spawn too many. We could have used an array so big it would have been impossible to go out of bounds (but that would be a waste of memory), or we could have restricted the number of bullets, but that wouldn't have been fun.

With the Snake game, we don't know how many segments there will be, so we need a better solution. The ArrayList class is the solution we will use.

Understanding ArrayList class

An ArrayList is like a regular Java array on steroids. It overcomes some of the shortfalls of arrays, such as having to predetermine their size. It adds some useful methods to make its data easy to manage and it uses an enhanced version of a for loop, which is easier to use than a regular for loop. You can also use ordinary for loops with the ArrayList class too.

We will learn about enhanced for loops now as it is convenient....