With normal Flash SWF’s I use URLRequest to communicate with external servers/sites to send/retreive data from a database – pretty standard stuff.
But can iPhone apps published from the CS5 environment communicate with external servers/sites?
I’m still organising my development license for the iphone, so want to check before I fork out the money for the registration.
Yes. You can use all the same networking APIs. (The main thing that doesn’t work on iOS is loading SWF files that contain ActionScript.)