Actually, it'd be very easy to spy on someone when coding a native Objective C application on the iOS. In fact, with enough dedication I know it's technically feasible to do the same thing with Adobe Flash Builder, just I don't want to have to senselessly go through that pain. The iOS doesn't ask users to verify starting a camera feed and it shouldn't - if an application is running, the permissions issues have all been worked out because of Apple's security model, unlike Android, where you have ...

Any luck from the runtime time?

Is there any way to hack/force front-facing camera support? I understand the feature is probably disabled because Android devices are a nightmare on the front facing camera thing but I'm building an iOS app and there shouldn't be any technical trickery to make it work.

I think these guys had success on the iOS:http://forums.adobe.com/thread/855200?tstart=60

More or less a "mask" - I'm thinking perhaps just temporarily putting a transparent .PNG on top of the video feed? Would Flex permit that?Ideally, I'd like to also do real-time video effects like Flash permits:http://www.flashcomguru.com/index.cfm/2005/9/29/Live-video-effects-in-Flash-8--a-small-demo-appBut I think I would have to make the whole application in Flash if I wanted to do that, and I'm not confident the iPhone has enough processing power to do that.