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

I've reimplemented this method in a recursive way. Not sure it's faster than MH's, but at least it has no duplicates.

private List getAllViews(View v) {
    if (!(v instanceof ViewGroup) || ((ViewGroup) v).getChildCount() == 0) // It's a leaf
        { List r = new ArrayList(); r.add(v); return r; }
    else {
        List list = new ArrayList(); list.add(v); // If it's an internal node add itself
        int children = ((ViewGroup) v).getChildCount();
        for (int i=0;i

MH's answer includes the parent view which is being given to the method, so I created this auxiliary method (which is the one to be called).

I mean, if you call this method on a TextView (which has no children), it returns 0 instead of 1.

private List getAllChildren(View v) {
    List list = getAllViews(v);
    list.remove(v);
    return list;
}

TLDR: to count all children copy and paste both methods, call getAllChildren()