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I am in the stages of designing a magazine concept for a client, taking the printed version and adding animated and interactive content, it seems Flash would be the obvious choice, and something which I am reasonably skilled with.

If I build the Magazine app with Flash, will the app be able to download additional issues? if so please point to any resources on the subject if possible.

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You can use the Packager for iPhone to get Flash content on an iOS device. However, you can't download compiled Flash files (.swf) to the iOS device and execute them after the app has been installed.

From the developer documentation:

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In an iPhone application, you cannot use the Loader.load() method. However, you cannot run any ActionScript code in SWF content loaded with the Loader.load() method. However, you can use assets in the SWF file (such as movie clips, images, fonts, and sounds in the library). You can also use the Loader.load() method to load image files

If you would like to use InDesign and some of the other tools that Adobe Makes, you can consider the so called Digital Publishing Suite which is a toolset that was used to make some of the iPad magazines such as Wired or Martha Stewart Living.

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  • great thanks for the info, and link exactly what I needed to find. Do you know if File.createTempFile() and File.createTempDirectory() are really temporary like they say? ideally I would need the app to create a folder 'issue2', and then files 'page1.jpg', 'page2.jpg' etc – davivid Feb 06 '11 at 13:33
  • If you want to store files permanently you will want to create files in `File.applicationStorageDirectory` location. These should be permanent as long as the user doesn't delete your application. – martineno Feb 07 '11 at 03:59