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
After you finish:
In BlackBerry App World, you must create an application in the vendor portal and set the category to Themes. For
more information about adding applications to BlackBerry App World, see the administration guide for the BlackBerry
App World storefront Vendor portal.
Before you submit an application for review, you can change any information about the application. You can choose
to save a draft of the application instead of submitting the application right away. You can continue to add new
theme bundles to the release while it is in draft mode.
Install a theme directly on the BlackBerry device
1. On the File menu, click Export.
2. Select Install to BlackBerry.
3. In the Theme Name field, type a name for the theme.
4. In the Password field, type the password for the BlackBerry device.
5. To overwrite any existing files automatically, select the Overwrite existing files check box.
6. If you want to support the theme in languages other than English, select the Include international characters
check box. If you select this option, the BlackBerry Theme Builder exports all of the international characters,
such as accented characters and symbols, that are available for each font in the theme.
The BlackBerry Theme Builder includes only the international characters that exist in the original font set. It does
not export international character sets, such as Chinese, Arabic, or Cyrillic. If a font set that you specified in the
theme does not contain a specific character, the BlackBerry device uses a system font to display the character.
7. Click OK.
After you finish:
BlackBerry device users who use devices that are running BlackBerry® Device Software 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 must restart
their devices manually before they activate the new theme.
Export a theme for distribution over the wireless network
You can export the theme so that BlackBerry® device users can download the theme over the wireless network,
directly to a BlackBerry device. Users can browse to your webpage and select the .jad file to download the theme.
1. On the File menu, click Export.
2. In the Export Type area, select the Publish for Web (OTA) option.
3. In the Theme Name field, type a name for the theme.
After you export the theme, the BlackBerry Theme Builder adds the prefix com_plazmic_theme_ to the name
of the .cod and .jad files. For example, if you name your theme myTheme, the BlackBerry Theme Builder produces
a file named com_plazmic_theme_myTheme.cod.
4. In the Path field, specify the location where you want to store the .cod file and the associated .jad file.
5. In the Handheld drop-down list, click the device that you created the theme for.
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