Yep, this is do-able. Have a look at this post on the forums: 
http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=8934&start=15#p43063 .

That's an example of an iOS app that downloads another stack from the internet 
and then goes to that stack. You have a different use case but the method of 
downloading files I use can be adapted to your purpose.

Gerry



On 19/02/2012, at 4:40 PM, johnpat...@me.com wrote:

> Hi All...
> 
> I'm looking to use the Flickr API search routine to return the latest images 
> for a specific tag. I will probably limit it to the 10 or 20 most recent 
> images. I can create the resulting URL to the images from the resulting XML, 
> and set the file name of an image to that URL, looping through the list of 
> images, but I'm curious as to what would be best practice would be to 
> download these images in the background? Ideally I would like the user to be 
> able to use the simulated swipe routines between the images.
> 
> The only thing I can think of is downloading the images in the background as 
> soon as the iOS app is launched. Could a script like this be launched at 
> openStack and run in the background?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> John Patten
> SUSD
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