Android: using AlertDialog when an item from a listview is long pressed

I have a list of items, created by a listview. I would like to long press one of the items on the list and an alert dialog to open up and depending on yes or no key on that dialog box I wan to set a global variable. The code that I am using is inside "MyActivity.java" and looks like this:

ListView lv = getListView();
lv.setOnItemLongClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemLongClickListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onItemLongClick(AdapterView<?> av, View v, int pos, final long id) {

        final AlertDialog.Builder b = new AlertDialog.Builder(MyActivity.this);
        b.setIcon(android.R.drawable.ic_dialog_alert);
        b.setMessage("Are you sure?");
        b.setPositiveButton("Yes", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
                    yesOrNo = 1;
                }
        });
        b.setNegativeButton("No", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
                    yesOrNo = 0;
                }
        });

        b.show();

        if (yesOrNo == 1) {
            DO SOMETHING;   
        }
        return true;
    }
});

However, the global variable "yesOrNo" is not changing no matter if I press "Yes" or "No". Can somebody let me know what is wrong with the code?

Thanks for the help.

AlertDialog does not wait for the selection. After you call show() method, these two lines will be executed immediately:

if (yesOrNo == 1) {
        DO SOMETHING;   
}

So value of yesOrNo variable will be its initial value.

Solution:

You can call doSomething(0) in onClick() method of positiveButton and doSomething(1) in onClick() method of negativeButton.