How to write an ArrayList of Strings into a text file?

You can do that with a single line of code nowadays. Create the arrayList and the Path object representing the file where you want to write into:

Path out = Paths.get("output.txt");
List<String> arrayList = new ArrayList<> ( Arrays.asList ( "a" , "b" , "c" ) );

Create the actual file, and fill it with the text in the ArrayList:

Files.write(out,arrayList,Charset.defaultCharset());

import java.io.FileWriter;
...
FileWriter writer = new FileWriter("output.txt"); 
for(String str: arr) {
  writer.write(str + System.lineSeparator());
}
writer.close();

I would suggest using FileUtils from Apache Commons IO library.It will create the parent folders of the output file,if they don't exist.while Files.write(out,arrayList,Charset.defaultCharset()); will not do this,throwing exception if the parent directories don't exist.

FileUtils.writeLines(new File("output.txt"), encoding, list);