Swift: Get all subviews of a specific type and add to an array

Here you go

    extension UIView {

    /** This is the function to get subViews of a view of a particular type 
*/
    func subViews<T : UIView>(type : T.Type) -> [T]{
        var all = [T]()
        for view in self.subviews {
            if let aView = view as? T{
                all.append(aView)
            }
        }
        return all
    }


/** This is a function to get subViews of a particular type from view recursively. It would look recursively in all subviews and return back the subviews of the type T */
        func allSubViewsOf<T : UIView>(type : T.Type) -> [T]{
            var all = [T]()
            func getSubview(view: UIView) {
                if let aView = view as? T{
                all.append(aView)
                }
                guard view.subviews.count>0 else { return }
                view.subviews.forEach{ getSubview(view: $0) }
            }
            getSubview(view: self)
            return all
        }
    }

You can call it like

let allSubviews = view.allSubViewsOf(type: UIView.self)
let allLabels = view.allSubViewsOf(type: UILabel.self)

So many of the answers here are unnecessarily verbose or insufficiently general. Here's how to get all subviews of a view, at any depth, that are of any desired class:

extension UIView {
    func subviews<T:UIView>(ofType WhatType:T.Type) -> [T] {
        var result = self.subviews.compactMap {$0 as? T}
        for sub in self.subviews {
            result.append(contentsOf: sub.subviews(ofType:WhatType))
        }
        return result
    }
}

How to use:

let arr = myView.subviews(ofType: MyButtonClass.self)

The filter function using the is operator can filter items of a specific class.

let myViews = view.subviews.filter{$0 is MyButtonClass}

MyButtonClass is the custom class to be filtered for.

To filter and cast the view to the custom type use compactMap

let myViews = view.subviews.compactMap{$0 as? MyButtonClass}