how to wait for Android runOnUiThread to be finished?

Question

I have a worker thread that creates a runnable object and calls runOnUiThread on it, because it deals with Views and controls. I\'d like to use the result of the work of the

Answer 1

Just scratching out the highlights

synchronized( myRunnable ) {
   activity.runOnUiThread(myRunnable) ;

   myRunnable.wait() ; // unlocks myRunable while waiting
}

Meanwhile... in myRunnable...

void run()
{
   // do stuff

   synchronized(this)
   {
      this.notify();
   }
}