title: displaying a dialog in onCreate()
body: <p>I may need to display a dialog box, depending upon a certain condition. This condition will have to be resolved before the application can continue. Basically, I need to "pause" the execution of my program until this dialog box has been destroyed. I have tried a bunch of different methods but I am running into a problem where the application continues to execute. Currently, the showDialog is in the onCreate() method of my main activity.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. </p>