How can I create a stream from an array - Java 8?

You can use Arrays.stream E.g.

Arrays.stream(array);

EDIT

You can also use Stream.of as mentioned by @fge , which looks like

public static<T> Stream<T> of(T... values) {
    return Arrays.stream(values);
}

But note Stream.of(intArray) will return Stream<int[]> whereas Arrys.stream(intArr) will return IntStream providing you pass an array of type int[]. So in a nutshell for primitives type you can observe the difference between 2 methods E.g.

    int[] arr = {1, 2};
    Stream<int[]> arr1 = Stream.of(arr);

    IntStream stream2 = Arrays.stream(arr); 

When you pass primitive array to Arrays.stream, the following code is invoked

public static IntStream stream(int[] array) {
    return stream(array, 0, array.length);
}

and When you pass primitive array to Stream.of the following code is invoked

 public static<T> Stream<T> of(T t) {
        return StreamSupport.stream(new Streams.StreamBuilderImpl<>(t), false);
    }

Hence you get different results.

Alternative to @sol4me's solution:

Stream.of(theArray)

Of the difference between this and Arrays.stream(): it does make a difference if your array is of a primitive type. For instance, if you do:

Arrays.stream(someArray)

where someArray is a long[], it will return a LongStream. Stream.of(), on the other hand, will return a Stream<long[]> with a single element.

Stream.of("foo", "bar", "baz")

Or, if you are already have an array, you can also do

Stream.of(array) 

For primitive types use IntStream.of or LongStream.of etc.