Android | Get all children elements of a ViewGroup

Question

getChildAt(i) on gets only the direct children of a ViewGroup, is it possible to access to all children without doing nested loops?

Answer 1

For those using androidx and kotlin

1 - Iterate through ViewGroup using forEach{}

If you want to iterate through all childViews, you can use predefined kotlin extension forEach in any ViewGroup. Example:

yourViewGroup.forEach{ childView -> // do something with this childView }

2 - Return a list of childViews using .children.toList in a ViewGroup

To return a list of Views, you can use function children to return a Sequence and then use toList() to transform it to a List. Example:

val yourChildViewsList: List = yourViewGroup.children.toList()