How to force main Acivity to wait for subactivity in Android?

Question

I am calling a subactivity from main activity. This subactivity should take few numbers from user (i'm using Edit text control to achieve this), save them to static variable in another class and terminate. I want main activity to wait for subactivity but both are just running simultaneously. Even doing sth like that doesn't help:

     Thread t = new Thread(new Runnable(){
     public void run(){
     Log.v("==================", "run "+new Date());
     startActivityForResult(new Intent(ctx,myCustomSubactivity.class),1);  
     } });
     Log.v("==================", "calling run "+new Date());
     t.start();      
     try {
        t.join();
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {Log.v("==================", "can't join");}
    Log.v("==================", "back from activity "+new Date());

do you know how to force main activity to wait? Thread.wait() method is not supported in Android(program throws error).

Answer 1

May be I'm missing something but why don't just use startActivityForResult and onActivityResult mechanism? You could get result from you subactivity from intent it was resulted with.
Edit: BTW as far as I understand, if you will run Object.wait() from Activity code if will hold UI tread whitch can result in Application not responding error.