AIR ANE Notifications

Question

Has anyone tried creating ANE notifications in Flash Pro CS5.5 yet? I'm doing it for android and ios.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/native-extensions-for-air/extensions/notification.html
other important info comes from:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/build/WS597e5dadb9cc1e0253f7d2fc1311b491071-8000.html
I tried to follow the articles closely but i'm getting this error:
"VerifyError: Error #1014: Class com.adobe.ep.notifications::NotificationManager could not be found."
I've added the swc (the .ane file converted to a swc that came with the article's zip file) to my fla's "actionscript 3.0 settings" library path and set its "link type" to "external". Also, I did the AIR 3.0 overlay in Flash Pro but I don't think that really matters since Flash cannot compile it properly anyway.
Here is my code taken mostly from the article. (probably not the best! i'm no expert.)
package  {
          import flash.display.MovieClip;
          import flash.events.EventDispatcher;
          import flash.utils.Timer;
          import flash.events.Event;
          import flash.events.TimerEvent;
          import flash.events.MouseEvent;
          import flash.events.StatusEvent;
          import flash.display.StageAlign;
          import flash.display.StageScaleMode;
          import com.adobe.ep.notifications.NotificationManager;
          import com.adobe.ep.notifications.NotificationEvent;
          import com.adobe.ep.notifications.Notification;
          import com.adobe.ep.notifications.NotificationAlertPolicy;
          import com.adobe.ep.notifications.NotificationEvent;
          import com.adobe.ep.notifications.NotificationIconType;
          public class testANE extends MovieClip {
                    public var notificationManager:NotificationManager;
                    public var n:Notification;
                    // You can set this value to anything you want (and use various values)
                    // You can then pass this value into the notification manager to cancel notifications of a specified type
                    public const NOTIFICATION_CODE:String = "MY_CUSTOM_NOTIFICATION";
                    public var timedNotification:Timer;
                    public function testANE() {
                              // constructor code
                              stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
                              stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
                              if ( notificationManager.isSupported )//Not sure if this should be "NotificationManager.isSupported" instead
                                  createManager();
                              else
                                  trace("The notification native extension is not supported.");
                    //setup notification manager
                    protected function createManager():void
                                        notificationManager = new NotificationManager();
                                        n = new Notification();
                                        // This action label appears in two places on iOS: on the action button of the notification dialog, and on the unlock slider when the device is locked.
                                        n.actionLabel = "Open";// If unset, the iOS default will be used.
                                        n.alertPolicy = NotificationAlertPolicy.EACH_NOTIFICATION;// Allows you to contorl whether an alert is dispathed with each notification, or just the first notification.
                                        n.cancelOnSelect = true; // On Android, specifies whether the notification persists when the user taps it in the notification area
                                        // On Android and iOS "...the app will be brought to the foreground if it was in the background or launched if it had been shutdown.
                                        // On iOS, the way to perform the action of a notification manifests itself as a button
                                        // on the notification dialog that appears when a notification is fired and different
                                        // text on the unlock slider when the device is locked.
                                        // On Android, the way to perform an action is not visible, it is performed by selecting
                                        // the notification from the notification list (window shade)."
                                        n.hasAction = true;
                                        n.actionData = "customAction";
                                        // Allows you to set the Android notification icon
                                        n.iconType = NotificationIconType.MESSAGE;
                                        // On both Android and iOS, lets you set a number on the icon or application badge
                                        n.numberAnnotation = 0;
                                        // On Android, "ongoing" notifications aren't cleared with the clear button
                                        n.ongoing = false;
                                        // Android and iOS
                                        n.playSound = true;
                                        // On Android, alerts (sound and vibration) until acknowledged
                                        n.repeatAlertUntilAcknowledged = false;
                                        // Only configurable on Android
                                        n.vibrate = true;
                                        n.tickerText = "My Ticker Text";
                                        n.title = "My Title Text";
                                        n.body = "My Body Text"; 
                                        //user touches notification
                                        this.notificationManager.addEventListener(NotificationEvent.NOTIFICATION_ACTION,onNotificationActionEvent);
                                        this.notificationManager.addEventListener(StatusEvent.STATUS,onNotificationStatusEvent);
                                        //start timer to send notification
                                        //startTimer();
                                        //setup buttons
                                        notify_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, notify_ClickHandler);
                                        cancel_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, cancelNotification_clickHandler);
                    //user touches notification
                    private function onNotificationActionEvent(ne:NotificationEvent):void
                              trace("Notification action received. Type: " + ne.actionData);           
                    private function onNotificationStatusEvent(ne:NotificationEvent):void
                              trace("Notification status event received!");
                    //send notification
                    protected function notifyUser():void
                              // Dispatch the notification
                              // Note that the way popups work on iOS dictate that a pop-up window will only appear when the application is in the background.
                              // If the notification is dispatched and the app is running normally, you won't see a pop-up (but you will receive the event).
                              this.notificationManager.notifyUser(NOTIFICATION_CODE,n);
                              trace("air notification sent");  
                    //cancel notification
                    protected function cancelNotification_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
                              if ( this.notificationManager )
                                        this.notificationManager.cancel(NOTIFICATION_CODE);
                                        trace("Notification canceled.");
                              else
                                        trace("No notifications have been dispatched.");
                    //start timer notification
                    protected function startTimer():void{
                              timedNotification = new Timer(3000,1)
                              timedNotification.start();
                              timedNotification.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, callNotifyUser);
                    //timer event
                    protected function callNotifyUser(event:TimerEvent):void{
                              notifyUser();
                              timedNotification.removeEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, callNotifyUser);
                    //button click handler
                    public function notify_ClickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void{
                              notifyUser();
To finally bring this into the android emulator, I believe I need to create a working swf with no errors. But of course that is where I'm stuck!
If you look at the files provided for the vibration ANE they have included an actionscript library with the ANE zip files:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/native-extensions-for-air/extensions/vibration.html
Is it possible this is missing from the files for Notifications?
Thanks.

Answer 1

@ brad5151:i hope you get notifications working! keep trying! but i'm afraid its missing code. for the vibration example, there is an additional swc (VibrationActionScriptLibrary.swc) that comes with the ANE. but the notification ANE didn't come with an additional swc. there is a "com" folder, but it only has html help files in it. i think maybe its a mistake or something.
1. I wondered about this. But i`v change extension ane to swc and i imported this to fdt. And I have all classe in it. Imports are corect - without any error. But still I dont know is this corect solution.
@brad5151:changing my code to: public var notificationManager:NotificationManager= new NotificationManager(); as you suggested doesn't help. if you look at the vibration links above, he did the same thing i did. he didn't create a "new Vibration()" until after he tested that it "isSupported".
2. In VibrationActionScriptLibrary.swc You have Vibration class and in this class is "
public static function get isSupported() : Boolean;"  this is static method. You invoked to this method like this "Vibration.isSuporrted" (capital V). And You can do this without new vibration. Thats why in vibration extension is ok. But when you check class  NotificationManager  (com.adobe.ep.notifications)  isSupported method isnt static. You have check it like this "notificatin.isSuporrted. (small n)" When You have new declaration after if there is an error. 
@brad5151:anyway, i cannot build the project. i get this error now: "1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: NotificationEvent." if i cut out all references to NotificationEvent's, then i get the same error for NotificationManager and Notification.
Check my answer number 1
@brad5151: "i got the exact same error code as you when i published: "Error creating files. An Implementation for native extensions com.adobe.Vibration  required by the application  was not found  for the  target platform." - I have this error when I published it directly to my phone :/ Do not know why...
Still I didnt get notification working! I hope I find some time to "play" with it :]
I`m not an expert. I`m still learning. Maybe I`m mistaken (especially in changing ane to swc :] ). Sorry if I`m wrong.