Why is ListView.getCheckedItemPositions() not returning correct values?

Question

The app has a ListView with multiple-selection enabled, in the UI it works as expected. But when I read the values out using this code:

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Answer 1

I still do not know why, but in my scenario, getCheckedItemPositions() returns false values for all items. I cannot see a way to use the methods on the ListView to get the boolean values out. The SparseBooleanArray object seems to have no real-world data in it. I suspect this may be because of some quirk of my implementation, perhaps that I've subclassed ArrayAdapter. It's frustrating, issues like this are a real time-drain.

Anyway, the solution I have used is to to attach a handler to each Checkbox individually as ListView rows are created. So from ListView.getView() I call this method:

private void addClickHandlerToCheckBox(CheckBox checkbox) {
  checkbox.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new OnCheckedChangeListener() {
      public void onCheckedChanged(CompoundButton arg0, boolean arg1) {
        CheckBox checkbox = (CheckBox)arg0; 
        boolean isChecked = checkbox.isChecked();
        // Store the boolean value somewhere durable
      }
  });
}