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
• BlackBerry® Bold™ 9000 smart phone
• BlackBerry® Curve™ 8900 smartphone
• BlackBerry® Pearl™ Flip 8200 Series smartphone
The following BlackBerry devices support 13 phone states:
• BlackBerry® 8800 Series smartphone
• BlackBerry® 8700 Series smartphone
• BlackBerry® Curve™ 8500 Series smartphone
• BlackBerry® Curve™ 8350i smartphone
• BlackBerry® Curve™ 8300 Series smartphone
Phone volume
(active call)
11 This composite image must include a row of 11 images to represent the volume
level.
Example:
Best practice: Creating images
You must make the size of your theme file as small as possible to minimize the effects on the performance of the
BlackBerry® device.
To create images that are optimized for use on BlackBerry devices, consider the following guidelines:
• Create images as .png files. During the export process, the BlackBerry Theme Builder converts all images that
are not already .png files into 32-bit dithered .png files. This conversion process can increase the size of the
resulting file, so you should create images as 32-bit dithered .png files so that the BlackBerry Theme Builder
does not need to convert them.
• Create images at the optimal size. Where necessary, the BlackBerry Theme Builder scales images that are too
large or too small and then anti-aliases the image to achieve the best possible appearance. Anti-aliasing an image
significantly increases the file size of the image.
• Create images at the required height and width.
The BlackBerry device scales pattern tile images to the size of the control in the BlackBerry device interface.
Image sizes for the BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphone
Screen element Image Image size in pixels
Banner Home screen 360 x 60
Home screen (landscape) 480 x 60
User Guide
Best practice: Creating images
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