In my last Air for Android article I have explained how to load a local XML file in a Flash CS5 Android application.

Anyway, if you need to load a REMOTE xml file, you can use the same AS3 code, making a little change to your xml-descriptor file, otherwise you won’t be able to load a remote file.

So, compile your .fla in Flash CS5, open the generated xml descriptor file and add the following node just after the root node (< application xmlns="...." >).
Upload your app on your phone and your remote request magically works !!

   <android>
    <manifestAdditions>
      <manifest>
        <data>
	<![CDATA[
		<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
		<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
	]]>
        </data>
      </manifest>
    </manifestAdditions>
  </android>

You can avoid to add the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission, but I wrote it because it could be an useful info.

You could also find interesting following uses-permission tag, useful when working with the GeoLocation class:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />