java - ArrayList not updating inside onChildAdded function

Question

public class DataService {

    private static DataService ourInstance = new DataService();
    private DatabaseReference mDatabase;


    public static DataService getInstance() {
        return ourInstance;
    }

    public ArrayList<UserDatabase> getFriendList() {

        mDatabase = FirebaseDatabase.getInstance().getReference().child("users");
        final ArrayList<UserDatabase> list = new ArrayList<>();

        mDatabase.addChildEventListener(new ChildEventListener() {
            @Override
            public void onChildAdded(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, String s) {
                UserDatabase userDatabase = dataSnapshot.getValue(UserDatabase.class);
                list.add(userDatabase);
            }

            @Override
            public void onChildChanged(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, String s) {}

            @Override
            public void onChildRemoved(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {}

            @Override
            public void onChildMoved(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, String s) {}

            @Override
            public void onCancelled(DatabaseError databaseError) {}
        });

        return list;
     }
}

I am trying to fetch my users database from the users node. It's acting really weird. When I set a breakpoint at the onChildAdded function, it will retrieve all the users and add it to the list.

However, if I don't set a breakpoint there, it is not getting anything and the list size is 0. Does anyone have any idea what is going on? Thanks in advance!

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