android: CheckedTextView cannot be checked?

It is possible, and somewhat simple to implement what you are looking for. Yes, CheckedTextView is used primarily for having a single Checkable view in the row of a ListView, which controls its children's checkable states using choiceMode. However, since CheckBox does not appear to support a right-aligned checkbox on its own, and CheckedTextView is a right-aligned checkbox, it makes sense to want to use what's there.

Because ListView controls the checked state of a list item, the CheckedTextView itself does not respond to click events, and is not clickable or focusable by default. It does respond to pressed and focused states, however -- that means it can receive focus and click events, and looks correct as far as a checkbox should look. The only thing missing is that it does not toggle its checked state on click. Therefore, a quick OnClickListener that calls .toggle() will give you the end result you're looking for.

In summary, you need 3 things: clickable, focusable, and onClickListener:

    CheckedTextView chkBox = (CheckedTextView) findViewById(R.id.CheckedTextView01);
    chkBox.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(View v)
        {
            ((CheckedTextView) v).toggle();
        }
    });

and layout file:

<CheckedTextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:id="@+id/CheckedTextView01"
    android:checked="true"
    android:clickable="true"
    android:focusable="true"
    android:text="Label on Left Side of Checkbox."
    />

You probably want to just use a regular CheckBox (which inherits from Button and thus TextView). CheckedTextView is designed to work with list views. Example CheckBox layout XML is below:

<CheckBox
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="Pop up a message when new data available"
    android:textSize="16dip" />

You can use and toggle CheckedTextView by the following way:

In layout:

<CheckedTextView
        android:id="@+id/cv_id"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Some text here" 
        android:textSize="18sp"
        android:gravity="center_vertical"
        android:clickable="true"
        android:checkMark="@drawable/btn_check_off"
        android:focusable="true"
        android:checked="false"
        android:onClick="toggle"/>

In your activity:

public void toggle(View v)
{
    CheckedTextView cView = (CheckedTextView) v.findViewById(R.id.cv_file_name);
        if (cView.isSelected())
        {
            cView.setSelected(false);
            cView.setCheckMarkDrawable (R.drawable.btn_check_off);
        }
        else
        {
            cView.setSelected(true);
            cView.setCheckMarkDrawable (R.drawable.btn_check_on);
        }
}

And don't forget to put drawables. I get it from SDK ...\android-sdk-windows\platforms\android-10\data\res\drawable-mdpi\

simple answer is to add your own onClickListener, and use : isChecked() method instead of isSelected().

CheckedTextView chkBox = (CheckedTextView) findViewById(R.id.CheckedTextView01);
chkBox.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(View v)
    {
        if(((CheckedTextView) v).isChecked()){
            ((CheckedTextView) v).setChecked(false);
        }else{
            ((CheckedTextView) v).setChecked(true);            
        }
    }
});

and get the status using view.isChecked() method.