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Connecting to the internet with flash iOS development

I was reading that certain API's are not available when making iPhone apps with flash, such as accessing the camera. Is it possible to still get information from the web and display it in the app using the flash method? The overall plan is to have it pull data from an SQL database using XML, and I was just wondering if that was possible still with flash. Thank you very much for your answers.

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  • I heard the same thing about it not being able to connect to the internet, among many other restraints, when developing apps through Flash. It held me back for the first 3 months after Apples 'accept' of the platform.

    But now after I've had some time to test things out on my own, I found out that the following is possible (so far):

    • Getting xml and pictures from the web (so why not SQL)
    • saving cookies
    • Saving pictures to the cameraroll.
    • getting geoLocation data (didn't get the google maps api to work YET tho)

    And these are only the features i have tried so far (in development-phase, not submittet to Apple)

    I'm surprised that no one else has answered your question by now. Hope this helps gets you spirit up for developing apps with flash :)