Android :: ListView SetAdapter In OnCreate - GetChildCount Is Zero In OnStart?

I want to display a ListView with checkboxes, and I want some of the checkboxes pre-selected. The ListView has setAdapter called during onCreate, and the list information appears when the screen is drawn. However, when I attempt to set certain list items as checked, my ListView reports getChildCount() = 0.

My SharedPreferences contains a list of sounds that have been previously selected, as a comma delimited string of list indices. Because the list appears to have no children in onStart, my attempts to set items as checked fails.

On the good side, once the list is rendered, I can select entries and hit Back, and my selection is stored to SharedPreferences correctly.

How can I load my previous selection into the list? Should I be using something else here?

In the spirit of open source. here's my code:

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