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
Show or hide BlackBerry Theme Builder tools
If a BlackBerry® Theme Builder tool isn't displayed on the UI of the BlackBerry Theme Builder, you can click the tool
name on the Window menu to show it. To hide the tool, you can click the tool name on the Window menu again.
On the Window menu, perform one of the following actions:
Task Steps
Show or hide the Inspector panel.
Click Inspector.
Show or hide the Quick Edit bar.
Click Quick Edit.
Show or hide the Toolbar.
Click Toolbar.
Show or hide the Catalog panel.
Click Catalog.
Show or hide the Alignment panel.
Click Alignment.
Show or hide the faceplate
To show or hide the BlackBerry® device faceplate, on the View menu, click Show Face Plate.
Change the faceplate
By default, the BlackBerry® Theme Builder preview area displays the BlackBerry device faceplate. You can change
the faceplate to determine whether the faceplate coloring works with the colors of your theme.
1. To change the faceplate, on the View menu, click Change Face Plate.
2. Click a faceplate.
3. Click OK.
SVG preview
You can configure the BlackBerry® Theme Builder to show an SVG in the preview area of the canvas. If you select
an .svg file for the Home screen or the Lock screen, the SVG appears in the preview area of the canvas.
SVG files are displayed slowly on the BlackBerry Theme Builder. To save time, you can turn off the SVG preview. If
you turn off the SVG preview, the BlackBerry Theme Builder does not import and display the SVG.
Turn on the SVG preview
1. On the Edit menu, click Preferences.
2. Click the SVG tab.
3. Select the SVG Preview check box.
User Guide
Show or hide BlackBerry Theme Builder tools
23