Since designing and estimating the work on this downloader app, the time has come to actually build the thing.

The first thing to overcome was using the built-in components to facilitate a download. Searching for assistance on this was made particularly tricky given that my previous article seemed to keep appearing in Google despite providing no actual help.

Huge thanks go out to Elad and his flex download api. This helped me get going enormously. To start with it only supported single downloads, and although I could queue these up, I wanted to be able to support concurrent downloads.
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