Best way to format multiple ‘or’ conditions in an if statement

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I use this kind of pattern often. It’s very compact:

// Define a constant in your class. Use a HashSet for performance
private static final Set<Integer> values = new HashSet<Integer>(Arrays.asList(12, 16, 19));

// In your method:
if (values.contains(x)) {
    ...
}

A HashSet is used here to give good look-up performance – even very large hash sets are able to execute contains() extremely quickly.

If performance is not important, you can code the gist of it into one line:

if (Arrays.asList(12, 16, 19).contains(x))

but know that it will create a new ArrayList every time it executes.

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