Guava has Ints. TryParse(String) as of 11.0. It doesn't work quite like the C# method (no out parameters) though.
It returns an Integer that's null if the string couldn't be parsed, so for your example you'd use it like this.
It looks like this was set to be added to release 11. The status is set to fixed, which I would think means it's either in the current release or will be in the next.
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