ATF Tools and Ant

I recently started tinkering with the ATF Tools provided by Adobe. The problem I have with it (as is) is that you have to use the command line in order to compress individual images. This is a pain in the butt and it is quite time consuming. I need a way to utilize Ant to automate this for me. Doing some looking around turned up the Ant Apply task. Unfortunately looking through the documentation is not straight forward for me. I did some more research and tinkering until I got something which worked. Below is what I came up with:

Ant and FDT

I've been using Apache Ant to automate my projects for probably a few years now. I am not an Ant expert by any means. I know enough to automate my build:

• Compiling a swf for different environments (development, production, etc.)
• Copying files to web server
• Replacing tokens
• Running the app in the browser

It's rather basic stuff. And my editor of choice is FDT. Ant and FDT work nicely together and FDT even has some special Ant tasks which you can use from FDT. I prefer using these tasks as they perform very well. Better than the Flex mxmlc when it comes to compiling. Plus the FDT versions are much easier to work with. But clients usually want to be able to run the Ant builds themselves. And they don't always have FDT to build with. They may have to run Ant from the command line. So in the past I usually had two versions of certain tasks. One that uses the FDT specific Ant tasks and one which uses the mxmlc Ant tasks.