Answer by atamanroman for string to string array conversion in java

String data = "abc";
String[] arr = explode(data);

public String[] explode(String s) {
    String[] arr = new String[s.length];
    for(int i = 0; i < s.length; i++)
    {
        arr[i] = String.valueOf(s.charAt(i));
    }
    return arr;
}