src/main/java/com/zandero/utils/StringUtils.java
public static List<String> asListOfChars(String text) {

		List<String> list = new ArrayList<>();

		if (StringUtils.isNullOrEmptyTrimmed(text)) {
			return list;
		}

		for (int i = 0; i < text.length(); i++) {
			list.add(Character.toString(text.charAt(i)));
		}

		return list;
	}
public static List<String> asListOfChars(String text) {

		List<String> list = new ArrayList<>();

		if (StringUtils.isNullOrEmptyTrimmed(text)) {
			return list;
		}

		for (int i = 0; i < text.length(); i++) {
			list.add(Character.toString(text.charAt(i)));
		}

		return list;
	}
Converts text to list of characters

@param text to be converted
@return list of characters