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
6. In the Target OS drop-down list, click the version of the BlackBerry® Device Software that you created the theme
for.
7. To overwrite any existing files automatically, select the Overwrite existing files check box.
8. If you want to support the theme in languages other than English, select the Include international characters
check box.
The BlackBerry Theme Builder creates a .jad file and a .cod file. If the theme is too large for a single .cod file, the
BlackBerry Theme Builder might produce multiple .cod files and number them (for example,
com_plazmic_theme_myTheme.cod or com_plazmic_theme_myTheme-1.cod).
After you finish:
Post the .jad and .cod files on a web server that is accessible to all users who require the theme. You must store
all .jad files and .cod files in the same directory so that users can download all the necessary components to their
devices.
Make sure the web server has the following content types defined:
• .jad text/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor
• .cod application/vnd.rim.cod
Export a theme for distribution using the application loader
tool of the BlackBerry Desktop Manager
Users can copy the .cod file and the .alx file to their computers and use the application loader tool in the BlackBerry
Desktop Manager to select the .alx file and add the theme to a BlackBerry device that they connect to their computer.
1. On the File menu, click Export.
2. In the Export Type area, select the Publish for Desktop Manager 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
for the .cod file. 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 .alx file.
5. In the Handheld drop-down list, click the device that you created the theme for.
6. In the Target OS drop-down list, click the version of the BlackBerry® Device Software that you created the theme
for.
7. To overwrite any existing files automatically, select the Overwrite existing files check box.
8. If you want to support the theme in languages other than English, select the Include international characters
check box.
The BlackBerry Theme Builder creates an .alx file and a .cod file.
After you finish:
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