When testing android UI what's the proper way of waiting for UI to be ready?

The test looks like that (it's ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2):

public void testItShowsThreeRows() {
  activity = getActivity();

  activity.runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
    public void run() {
      AccountsList accountsList = new AccountsList(activity, accounts);
      list.show();
    }
  });

  ListView listView = (ListView)activity.findViewById(R.id.list);
  assertEquals(3, listView.getChildCount());
}

The code I'm trying to test works. But the test fails because activity.runOnUiThread returns immediately. I can insert Thread.sleep and the test turns green but it looks kinda clumsy to me. Do I have to use some thread synchronization or may be poll for some UI element to be ready?

I tried to annotate it with @UiThreadTest but that doesn't work either. The code in list.show() populates a ListView via custom adapter and getView is called on another thread (not the one test runs on - and I have nothing to do with that, I have no threads or asynctasks, no nothing). The test fails again because it returns before UI is ready to be checked.