Load external content

Hello everyone
I want to know that with flex mobile development can we load external content like unity3d, .apk or .ipa, video files or html file from sd card or internal memory of device.If possible then some one can please tell me how to do this or possible. Can i use same project for android, ios and blackberry platform.
Thanking you

Chris,
Thank you for the information, that is very helpful and certainly gets me in the right direction. I have one other question and cannot seem to find the answer on this forum or by search the Internet. One of the features that Air 2 is suppose to have is the ability to print w/o showing the dialog. Any idea where an example of that is?
Please forgive me if I overlooked it but I have spent some time looking for this and could not find something or could not see how it was done via the docs.
Thanks again!
Jason

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