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
Open a theme project
1. On the File menu, click Open, and navigate to the (.thm) file for the theme project that you want to open.
2. Click Open.
Update a theme project created with an earlier version of
the BlackBerry Theme Builder
Themes that were created with earlier versions of BlackBerry® Theme Builder are not compatible with later versions
of the BlackBerry® Device Software. You can update the theme project by opening it in the BlackBerry Theme Builder
and then exporting it to the desired version of the BlackBerry Device Software.
1. On the File menu, click Open.
2. Navigate to the theme project that you want to update.
3. Click Open. The BlackBerry Theme Builder prompts you to update the theme file to a newer version.
4. Click OK.
Save a theme project
1. Perform one of the following actions:
• To save an existing project, on the File menu, click Save.
• To save the project with a new name, on the File menu, click Save As.
2. Type the name for the theme project and then navigate to the location you want to save the project in. The file
is saved in the BlackBerry Theme Builder as a .thm file.
Changing theme layouts and screen sizes
When you create a theme, you must select the layout and the BlackBerry® device model that you want to target.
However, if you wish to create a family of related themes that, for example, targets different screen sizes and present
different Home screen layouts, the BlackBerry Theme Builder enables you to do so, without you having to create
similar looking themes from scratch.
You can change from one theme type to another at any time. Changes you made to the Home screen are lost, since
they will no longer apply in the new theme. However, the BlackBerry Theme Builder preserves changes elsewhere
in the theme.
A single theme project cannot target multiple screen sizes. You must create a new theme to target a different screen
size. However, you can leverage design work you’ve already done for another theme by importing it into your new
theme.
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