Loading a flashwebsite within AIR on IOS

[Guest]

   I had a curious thought about being able to load a window inside of your air app that loads a flash based website on an ios device.  I know you cant view flash websites on safari with ios.

The only thing I have tried so far is to use stagewebview to load a flash site, but it doesn't display the flash content.

So my question would be:  Are there any other options for loading a site WITHIN your air app that would display flash content?

[Colin Holgate · Accepted solution]

The WebView that StageWebView uses is the same thing that Safari uses, so any restrictions that are true in Safari are also true in StageWebView. Also, you can't load and run code that is it an external swf on iOS. So, overall, there isn't any way to do what you want, other than just doing it on Android.

[Guest]

How unfortunate.  I was really hoping I had found a workaround to the IOS ridiculous policy of not displaying swf content....

thanks anyways!

[Colin Holgate]

There is this work around:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iswifter/id388857173?mt=8

[Guest]

So that begs the questions:  How did they accomplish that?

[Colin Holgate]

A real PC on a network somewhere loads the web site for you, and streams the image to the app. In theory, someone at the company could sit and watch you as you do your browsing, so I've been hesitant about using it for anything at all confidential, such as unreleased client sites.