Accessing ArrayList<ArrayList<SomeObject>> elements

I have an ArrayList of ArrayLists where I need to find a simple way of accessing the elements. To make it easier to understand, I have drawn my goal of what I want to achieve:

As seen on the image above the main ArrayList consists of m ArrayList, where I wish to get an element by using a get method which goes from 0 to N elements, where N is the total elements of ArrayList1 and ArrayList2. More ArrayLists may occur.

I can, of course, iterate through the elements by using two for-loops, that is not what I'm searching for in this case.

You would need to basically have the the ArrayList members on your new wrapper class and implement them in a different manner. I whipped up an example that demonstrates the correct index being calculated in get().

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class ListHolder<T> {
    public ArrayList<ArrayList<T>> list = new ArrayList<ArrayList<T>>();

    public int size() {
        int size = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++) {
            size += list.get(i).size();
        }
        return size;
    }

    public T get(int i) {
        if (i >= size())
            return null;

        int listIndex = 0;
        int valueIndex = i;

        while (valueIndex >= list.get(listIndex).size()) {
            valueIndex -= list.get(listIndex++).size();
        }

        return list.get(listIndex).get(valueIndex);
    }
}

What I used to verify my methods:

public static void main(String[] args)
{
    ListHolder<Object> listHolder = new ListHolder<Object>();

    listHolder.list.add(new ArrayList<Object>());
    listHolder.list.get(0).add("hello");
    listHolder.list.get(0).add("world");

    listHolder.list.add(new ArrayList<Object>());
    listHolder.list.get(1).add("a");
    listHolder.list.get(1).add("b");
    listHolder.list.get(1).add("c");

    System.out.println("Size: " + listHolder.size());
    System.out.println("listHolder[0]: " + listHolder.get(0)); // "hello"
    System.out.println("listHolder[1]: " + listHolder.get(1)); // "world"
    System.out.println("listHolder[2]: " + listHolder.get(2)); // "a"
    System.out.println("listHolder[3]: " + listHolder.get(3)); // "b"
    System.out.println("listHolder[4]: " + listHolder.get(4)); // "c"
    System.out.println("listHolder[5]: " + listHolder.get(5)); // "null"
}