wait till TextToSpeech onInit() has been initialized - android

I am developing a simple app which will speak the contact name or an unknown number when call is received. I am implementing the app using broadcastReceiver and Services. If i run the app on emulator and start the call using DDMS, with 2 or 3 contacts saved, the app works fine since onInit() is called before tts.speak() runs.
Now when i try to run the same app on my android phone, onInit is called after the tts.speak(). From what i have understood while searching for an answer to this question, this happens due to tts.speak() not waiting for onInit to called.
One solution i found on this question was on How to wait for TextToSpeech initialization on Android but that didn't work either.
This question has been asked a lot of times but i couldn't find a working solution. This link suggested to use handler http://davidcheney.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/multitasking-in-android/ but being a newbie i have no idea as to how to implement that.
From what i understood i have to wait till onInit is called before i can use tts.speak() but i don't know how to do it.
Update
I was trying to call speak function outside the onInit since the data which was to be spoken was coming from elsewhere and i didn't want to do all the coding in onInit,this was not working. So i changed my code and finally somehow managed to run that speak() inside onInit().
Although the code is now running but there must be a way to call speak() outside onInit. So i will wait for a better answer else post my code for others facing same problem.

You either set a class member flag boolean mTtsInitialized and check this flag everytime you call speak or put the code to get the data to be spoken in onInit

This is not the most elegant way of handling this, I'm sure, but could you extend the class containing the onInit() method?
In this class, you could have a boolean variable that effectively "locks" your thread. Override the onInit() method, call super(), and then after super() set this value to true. Then, enter a loop that blocks the thread which calls tts.speak() until this value is true.
You'll want to keep in mind that you can't do this in the UI thread, because if you block that for too long it will crash your app.
I hope I understood your question correctly. :)

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