Download a file with Adobe AIR

Question

How do I download a file from the internet in a Flex based AIR application.

I tried using a file with url set to the address, but I got a file does not exist error

Answer 1

Please also check the URLLoader class for downloading files. An excellent example is here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/flex/articles/exploring_file_capabilities.html

This worked out to be very fast for me, as compared to the URLStream class, which was taking ages, and a lot of CPU to download files.