Custom checkbox class in android

I needed to map checkboxes to their position in the list view in the checkbox's onClickListener. My first solution was to make a very short custom view that extended the checkbox but had an additional variable (position) to be set in getView ().

    public class ListCheckBox extends CheckBox {
    private int position = -1;

   public ListCheckBox(Context context)
   {super(context);}
   public ListCheckBox(Context context, AttributeSet attrs)
   {super(context,attrs);}
   public ListCheckBox(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr)
   {super(context,attrs,defStyleAttr);}
    @TargetApi(21)
    public ListCheckBox(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr, int defStyleRes)
   {super(context,attrs,defStyleAttr,defStyleRes);}

    public int getPosition() {
        return position;
    }

    public void setPosition(int position) {
        this.position = position;
    }
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

It worked except that it changed the color of the checkboxes to black and nothing I did (including changing android: buttonTint) could change it. At the moment my solution is a HashMap with a view key and an integer value that keeps track of the checkboxes and their positions, but if anyone has a less ugly solution or any idea as to why I couldn't change the color of the checkboxes it was would be very grateful.