title: Creating AlertDialog with Static Methods?
body: <p>I've completed most of the game I'm attempting to make and throughout the project I've created one particular Activity which also calls a SurfaceView and a Thread.  I put an update() method in each of the 3 classes so they each know where the other ones are everytime something changes.  Apparently, the only way to do something like this is using static methods... This is fine until a collision occurs in my SurfaceView and I want to tell the Activity what to do. I can relay the information, but then I cannot find a way to make an AlertDialog.</p>
  
  <p>I understand I cannot call showDialog() from a Static method, but I cannot find a way to make a non-static method to call it with and then call that method from a static one.  I've been searching for an answer and I've heard something about instantiating the object but I cannot figure out what that means...</p>
  
  <p>If anyone has a good idea to get me around this, please let me know :)</p>