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copied!<p>Well, I was going to say that I am very pleased with myself because I found a simple answer, all by myself!<br> But the truth is that although I find a way to return a value (which I show below). <strong>It is of no use</strong>.</p> <p>The real problem is I wanted a synchronous Dialog, a dialog that waits for the user to answer before resuming your code after <code>dialog.show()</code>.<br> <strong>There is no such beast in Android</strong>. All dialogs are asynchronous, so <code>dialog.show()</code> only posts the dialog in some queue (I think) and continues. Thus you don't get your answer in time.</p> <p>For all its worth (nothing) below you'll find how to set a value inside the method that builds the dialog. Maybe there are other uses for this technique, not related to the dialog lifecycle.</p> <p><br><br><br></p> <p>To give some related info, I'll say that if you replace</p> <pre class="lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>boolean answer; </code></pre> <p>with</p> <pre class="lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>final boolean answer; </code></pre> <p>it is possible to access the variable from within the listener, but it is not possible to assign it a new value, since it was declared as <strong>final</strong>.</p> <p>Here comes the trick.<br> Define the variable as:</p> <pre class="lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>final boolean[] answer = new boolean[1]; </code></pre> <p>Some of you already see why this will work. The final variable here is not the single element of the boolean array, is the array itself.<br> So now you can assign the array element [0] as you wish.</p> <pre class="lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>dialog.setButton(DialogInterface.BUTTON_POSITIVE, "Yes", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() { public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int buttonId) { answer[0] = true; } }); . . . return answer[0]; </code></pre> <p>And finally you can return it from your method.</p>

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