Air apps with outside elements

Hello,
First of all i'm a newbie to air.
my question is : is it possible to create an desktop Air apps
with the "core components" of the apps (in my case .air file and
swf, xml) and as the full application will use flv give the
possibility to download those flv to folder (inside the
installation folder) or to use them from a server online.
The final purpose of my question is that i'd like that my
apps could look if there's updated flv available.
Hope that my question is clear enough bcause of my poor
english ;)
Thanks

Hi,
AIR has APIs that let you download files from the internet
and store it on your local filesystem (though not in the
application installation directory, but a different location: the
application storage directory). You should be able to play those
flv's from your AIR app.
Using the same API's you can also download a file that lets
your app know if there is an updated flv available.

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