Is there a way I can store and access integers in an ArrayList? I input ints into an ArrayList, but when I try to access them and store them in other variables, ArrayList tries to return objects since it doesn't know what it's storing. I'm doing something like this:

ArrayList nodeTimers;
nodeTimers = new ArrayList();
nodeTimers.add(0,0);
int timers = (int) nodeTimers.get(0);

It won't let me cast the element as an integer. Is there a way I can do this? The whole reason I'm using an ArrayList in the first place is because I wanted to be able to easily remove elements in the array without shifting around the other contents. If anyone knows an easy way to do this with a regular old array, that would be helpful too.