User guide
Table Of Contents
- BlackBerry Theme Builder overview
- Configuring the BlackBerry Theme Builder
- Creating and changing theme projects
- Working with images
- Work with images
- Change all images
- Best practice: Creating effective designs
- Creating background images for dynamically sized screen elements
- Creating images with multiple states
- Best practice: Creating images
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphone
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Style 9670 smartphone
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Bold 9780 smartphone
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone and BlackBerry Bold 9650 smartphones
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Storm 9500 smartphone
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Curve 9300 and BlackBerry Curve 9330 smartphones
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Pearl 9100 Series smartphones
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Tour Series, BlackBerry Curve 8900, and BlackBerry Curve 8910 smartphones
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Bold 9000 smartphone
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Curve 8300, and BlackBerry 8800 Series smartphones
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Curve 8350i smartphone
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Pearl 8220 smartphone
- Image sizes for the BlackBerry Pearl 8100 Series smartphone
- Using catalogs to manage theme images and colors
- Changing fonts for themes
- Using colors
- Customizing the Home screen
- Change the Home screen wallpaper
- Add an animation to the Home screen
- Create a slide show for your wallpaper
- Create a wallpaper that changes on specific dates or time
- Change the font settings for the Home screen
- Customizing a Today theme Home screen
- Customizing a Zen theme Home screen
- Customizing a Home screen with a BlackBerry 6 theme layout
- Customizing a Home screen with a Custom or Custom 6 theme layout
- Specify the applications that appear on the Home screen with a Custom layout
- Move the application icons on the Home screen with a Custom layout
- Layer the Home screen over the banner
- Customize the cursor navigation path on a Home screen with a Custom layout
- Retain navigation history
- Specify the default navigation links
- Designing banners
- Customizing external flip screens
- Customizing BlackBerry devices with touch screens
- Customizing the Application List screen
- Customizing UI controls and application lists
- Customizing the message list
- Customizing the Phone screens
- Change the background image for the Phone screens
- Change the text color for the phone screens
- Change images for the phone screens
- Add a ring tone
- Phone hotlist settings for touch screen devices
- Active Call screen settings for BlackBerry devices with a touch screen
- Incoming Call screen settings for BlackBerry devices with a touch screen
- Customizing the Lock screen
- Customizing global UI elements
- Testing your theme
- Managing themes on the BlackBerry device
- Making themes available to BlackBerry device users
- Considerations for exporting themes
- Add a theme to a .zip file to upload to BlackBerry App World
- Install a theme directly on the BlackBerry device
- Export a theme for distribution over the wireless network
- Export a theme for distribution using the application loader tool of the BlackBerry Desktop Manager
- Provide feedback about the BlackBerry Theme Studio
- Provide feedback
- Legal notice

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Considerations for exporting themes
When you export a theme, the BlackBerry® Theme Builder places the theme automatically in a .cod file that BlackBerry
devices that are running BlackBerry® Device Software 4.2 or later can read. Depending on the export type that you
choose, the BlackBerry Theme Builder also creates either an .alx file or a .jad file that you must distribute along with
the .cod file.
If you are exporting a theme for distribution over the wireless network or for distribution using the BlackBerry®
Desktop Manager, and you want to make a theme available for devices that have different models and different
versions of the BlackBerry Device Software, you must export the theme to a separate folder for each difference. Each
time that you export a theme, you must specify only one BlackBerry device model, the version of the BlackBerry
Device Software, and the export type. If you must specify more than one BlackBerry device model, the version of the
BlackBerry Device Software, or the export type, you must repeat the export process. If you export a theme to one
folder using the same name, the BlackBerry Theme Builder removes the files from the first export (.cod, .alx, and .jad)
and then regenerates the files.
Before you export a theme, the following considerations determine which export settings you should use:
Consideration Description
BlackBerry device that you
want to export a theme to
BlackBerry devices—even those that have the same screen size—have slight
differences in functionality and UI design. You must specify the BlackBerry device
that you want to export a theme to.
BlackBerry Device Software
version that is on the
BlackBerry device that you
want to export the theme to
The BlackBerry Theme Builder can export themes to devices that are running
BlackBerry Device Software version 4.2 or later. You must specify the version that
you want the BlackBerry Theme Builder to export a theme to. If you customize an
element of the theme that a specific version of the BlackBerry Device Software
does not support, the BlackBerry Theme Builder removes that element from the
theme before the theme is exported.
You must instruct users with BlackBerry devices that are running BlackBerry Device
Software 4.2 and 4.2.1 who install a theme to restart their devices manually before
they activate the new theme.
Export types You can make themes available to BlackBerry device users in three diferent ways.
• You can export the theme so that BlackBerry device users can copy the theme
to their computer and then use the application loader tool of the BlackBerry®
Desktop Manager to add the theme to a BlackBerry device that they connect
to their computer.
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