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
Element Component
images
Description
Example:
Message list images with multiple states
Element Component
images
Description
message icons 96 This composite image must include four rows of 24 equal-sized images, that
represent all possible message types that the message list can display. The
message list can contain messages of three types: email messages, SMS text
messages, and MMS messages. The composite image must include the following
component images, from left to right:
• First row: empty slot, 3 images for incoming email messages (unread, read,
error), 9 images for outgoing email message (composing, compressing,
encrypting, completing, sending, sent, delivered, read acknowledged, and
transmission error), 2 images for filed email messages (unread and read),
empty slot, empty slot, 2 images for ring tone for incoming calls (unplayed
and played), 2 images for incoming pager messages (unopened and
opened), 2 images for messages with attachments (unread, read), 2 images
for calendar reminders (unread and read), and 1 image for download
attachment
• Second row: empty slot, 3 images for incoming SMS text messages (unread,
read, and error), 9 images for outgoing SMS text messages (composing,
compressing, encrypting, completing, sending, sent, delivered, read
acknowledged, and transmission error), 2 images for filed SMS text
messages (unread and read), followed by 9 empty slots
• Third row: empty slot, 2 images for incoming security messages (unread
and read), empty slot, 2 images for incoming signed read receipt (unread
and read), followed by 18 empty slots
• Fourth row: empty slot, 3 images for incoming MMS messages (unread,
read, and error), 9 images for outgoing MMS messages (composing,
compressing, encrypting, completing, sending, sent, delivered, read
acknowledged, and transmission error), 2 images for filed MMS messages
(unread and read), followed by 9 empty slots
Example:
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