GlobalScope.launch {
            Log.d("rafa", "thread:${Thread.currentThread()}") // this prints Thread[DefaultDispatcher-worker-1,5,main]
            someTextView.text = "new test"
        }

Does anyone know why that doesn't crash ^? Even though it's changing text in the UI on a worker thread?

This seems to be an Android 'issue'. Running UI related code on another thread than the main UI-thread may cause a crash... sometimes it may work fine.... I don't think that all UI methods in Android have a 'is-on-ui-thread' assertion...

No, they don't assert the attached window's UI thread for every operation. WAI. 🙂

neat. Is there an example in the sdk I can go look at to see that happening for specific UI updates?

Not sure what you mean, views specifically don't check for this

I have to check my knowledge on this again. I thought in the past when trying to update a view from a background thread, I'd get a crash saying I can't update the UI

There are a bunch of method in the Android SDK that specifically test for being on the main ui thread (one that comes to mind is the

MutableLiveData::setValue

) But the most just do what they do and, if called on a background thread, may fail in an undetermined way.