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BlackBerry Theme Builder overview
- Customizable screen elements
- Quickstart screen
- Theme layout types
- BlackBerry Theme Builder workspace
  - Inspector
  - Toolbar
- Align objects
- Selecting multiple objects
Configuring the BlackBerry Theme Builder
- Change the screen that appears when the BlackBerry Theme Builder starts
- Configure properties for a theme
- Change the applications that you use for editors
- Change transparency settings
- Show or hide BlackBerry Theme Builder tools
- Show or hide the faceplate
- Change the faceplate
- SVG preview
  - Turn on the SVG preview
  - Turn off the SVG preview
Creating and changing theme projects
- Create a theme
  - Best practice: Naming a theme project
- Open a theme project
- Update a theme project created with an earlier version of the BlackBerry Theme Builder
- Save a theme project
- Changing theme layouts and screen sizes
  - Change the layout type
  - Convert a theme to a different screen size
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
  - Banner images with multiple states
  - Message list images with multiple states
  - Phone images that show 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
  - Create a catalog
  - Add items to a catalog
  - Add an image or color from a catalog to a theme
  - Delete items from a catalog
  - Open a catalog
  - Change a catalog
  - Delete a catalog
Changing fonts for themes
- Font settings
- Change fonts for multiple screens
- Change text settings for an element
- Best practice: Using fonts effectively in themes
Using colors
- Change the color of a theme element
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
  - Change the images on the Home screen for Today applications
  - Specify the applications that appear on the Home screen with a Today layout
- Customizing a Zen theme Home screen
  - Change the images on the Home screen for a Zen layout type
  - Specify the applications that appear on the Home screen with a Zen layout
- Customizing a Home screen with a BlackBerry 6 theme layout
- Customizing a Home screen with a Custom or Custom 6 theme layout
Designing banners
- Change the background image for a banner
- Change the size of a banner
- Add or remove banner items
- Change the text settings for banner elements
- Move the banner elements
- Change the underlay image for the Profiles icon
- Change the image for banner elements
Customizing external flip screens
- Customize the external Home screen
- Customize the external phone screen
- Customize indicators on the external screen
Customizing BlackBerry devices with touch screens
- Change BlackBerry device elements in portrait or landscape mode
- Design a Home screen that is different in landscape mode
- Keep focus on an object
- Change background images for the Shortcut bar
- Change navigation images for the Shortcut bar
Customizing the Application List screen
- Change the background image for the Application list screen
- Change the appearance of the tray
- Change the font for the calendar
- Change the icon for a BlackBerry device application
- Change multiple application icons at one time
- Add a link to the Application list screen
Customizing UI controls and application lists
- Show or hide UI controls
- Change the images for UI controls
- Change the text settings for UI controls
- Change colors for UI controls
Customizing the message list
- Change the text settings for the date
- Change the background image for the date bar
- Change images for the message list
- Change the color for messages sent with high importance
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
- Change the background image for the Lock screen
- Change the text settings for the Lock screen
- Change the lock image
- Move or resize the Lock screen elements
- Layer the Lock screen over the banner
- Add an animation to the Lock screen
Customizing global UI elements
- Change images for global UI elements
- Change colors for global UI elements
- Apply screen transitions
Testing your theme
- Using the BlackBerry Smartphone Simulator to test your theme
- Test your theme on a device
Managing themes on the BlackBerry device
- Delete a theme from 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
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Contents

1 BlackBerry Theme Builder overview................................................................................................................. 6

Customizable screen elements......................................................................................................................... 6

Quickstart screen.............................................................................................................................................. 11

Theme layout types.......................................................................................................................................... 12

BlackBerry Theme Builder workspace.............................................................................................................. 14

Inspector.................................................................................................................................................... 16

Toolbar....................................................................................................................................................... 17

Align objects..................................................................................................................................................... 19

Selecting multiple objects................................................................................................................................. 20

2 Configuring the BlackBerry Theme Builder....................................................................................................... 21

Change the screen that appears when the BlackBerry Theme Builder starts.................................................. 21

Configure properties for a theme..................................................................................................................... 21

Change the applications that you use for editors............................................................................................. 22

Change transparency settings........................................................................................................................... 22

Show or hide BlackBerry Theme Builder tools.................................................................................................. 23

Show or hide the faceplate............................................................................................................................... 23

Change the faceplate........................................................................................................................................ 23

SVG preview...................................................................................................................................................... 23

Turn on the SVG preview........................................................................................................................... 23

Turn off the SVG preview.......................................................................................................................... 24

3 Creating and changing theme projects............................................................................................................. 25

Create a theme................................................................................................................................................. 25

Best practice: Naming a theme project..................................................................................................... 25

Open a theme project....................................................................................................................................... 26

Update a theme project created with an earlier version of the BlackBerry Theme Builder............................. 26

Save a theme project........................................................................................................................................ 26

Changing theme layouts and screen sizes........................................................................................................ 26

Change the layout type.............................................................................................................................. 27

Convert a theme to a different screen size............................................................................................... 27

4 Working with images........................................................................................................................................ 28

Work with images............................................................................................................................................. 28

Change all images............................................................................................................................................. 28

Best practice: Creating effective designs.......................................................................................................... 29

Creating background images for dynamically sized screen elements.............................................................. 29

Creating images with multiple states............................................................................................................... 31