Best Practices for the Android, JUnit, and JVM UI Frameworks

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Clean and safe View binding with the Android Extensions plugin
• Applying coroutines for asynchronous UI programming on Android, JavaFX, and Swing
• Easy class-serialization on Android using the @Parcelize annotation
• Implementing a custom property delegate that provides lifecycle-aware values
• Easy operations on SharedPreferences
• Less boilerplate Cursor data parsing
• Mocking dependencies with the Mockito Kotlin library
• Verifying function invocations
• Unit tests for Kotlin coroutines