java - Problems with Firestore connections executing threads

Question

First of all, I would like to apologize if the title is misleading. English is not my native language and I wasn't sure how to name this post. Now the question:

I have an Activity that shows the data stored in a Firebase project about a user. The data is distributed between the Firebase user (display name, email and profile image) and a document in Cloud Firestore named as the user's UID.

When this activity starts, I make a Firebase google auth to get the user, and then the problems come. I need to know if the user has a linked document in the database with his additional data (existing user) or if he needs to create one (new user). I have created a method that checks if a document named like the user's UID exists. This is the method:

public void userExists(String uid) {
    FirebaseFirestore db = FirebaseFirestore.getInstance();
    DocumentReference docRef = db.collection("users").document(uid);
    docRef.get().addOnCompleteListener(new OnCompleteListener<DocumentSnapshot>() {
        @Override
        public void onComplete(@NonNull Task<DocumentSnapshot> task) {
            if (task.isSuccessful()) {
                DocumentSnapshot documentSnapshot = task.getResult();
                if (documentSnapshot.exists()) {
                    aa = true;
                    aa=true;
                } else {
                    aa = false;
                }
            } else {
                aa = false;
            }
        }
    });
}

(aa is a boolean variable declared in the Activity).

I call this method inside the following one in order to know if I need to start a new Activity to create the document or if I can show the user's data in the current Activity without problems.

private void updateUI(FirebaseUser user) {

    if (user != null) {
        userExists(user.getUid());
        if(aa){
            //Fill layout with the user data and the user linked document data

            //USER DATA
            txvNombre=findViewById(R.id.nombrePerfil);
            txvNombre.setText(user.getDisplayName());
            imvAvatar=findViewById(R.id.imvVistaPerfilAvatar);
            Picasso.with(VistaPerfilActivity.this)
                    .load(user.getPhotoUrl())
                    .resize(500,500)
                    .centerCrop()
                    .into(imvAvatar);


            //HERE GOES THE DOCUMENT DATA


        }else{

        }
    } else {
        finish();
    }
}

As far as I know, Firestore connections are made in a new Thread so, when UpdateUI(FirebaseUser user) starts, aa is always false, because userExists(String uid) hasn't finished yet. userExists(String uid) works correctly, I have checked it.

So I need to know how to check if the Firestore connection thread is finished, in order to continue executing the app. I have tried using the OnCompleteListener (shown in the code), but it doesn't work. I've also tried to just write the actions in the userExists(String uid) method instead of just changing the value of aa and then continue on another method, but I get the

variable is accessed from within inner class needs to be declared final

error. I tried to follow the Android Studio advice of making the variable final, but I can't work with that for obvious reasons.

Thanks in advance.

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