I'm trying to make an ArrayList public(in java) so I can access it in a different class, what am I doing wrong?

Question

There is an error and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do without being unable to access the ArrayList in another class

package LifeGame;
import java.util.ArrayList;
public class Lists {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
    public ArrayList<String> tasks = new ArrayList<String>(); { // error on `tasks`
        tasks.add("Phone");
    }

    }
}

Answer 1

Variables inside a method are only accessible by name from inside that same method. Class members — variable defined outside of methods — are the only ones that can be public, private, etc.