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
Banner images with multiple states.......................................................................................................... 31
Message list images with multiple states.................................................................................................. 33
Phone images that show multiple states................................................................................................... 34
Best practice: Creating images......................................................................................................................... 35
Image sizes for the BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphone.................................................................................. 35
Image sizes for the BlackBerry Style 9670 smartphone.................................................................................... 37
Image sizes for the BlackBerry Bold 9780 smartphone.................................................................................... 39
Image sizes for the BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone and BlackBerry Bold 9650 smartphones.................... 41
Image sizes for the BlackBerry Storm 9500 smartphone.................................................................................. 44
Image sizes for the BlackBerry Curve 9300 and BlackBerry Curve 9330 smartphones..................................... 45
Image sizes for the BlackBerry Pearl 9100 Series smartphones....................................................................... 47
Image sizes for the BlackBerry Tour Series, BlackBerry Curve 8900, and BlackBerry Curve 8910
smartphones..................................................................................................................................................... 50
Image sizes for the BlackBerry Bold 9000 smartphone.................................................................................... 51
Image sizes for the BlackBerry Curve 8300, and BlackBerry 8800 Series smartphones................................... 52
Image sizes for the BlackBerry Curve 8350i smartphone................................................................................. 53
Image sizes for the BlackBerry Pearl 8220 smartphone................................................................................... 54
Image sizes for the BlackBerry Pearl 8100 Series smartphone......................................................................... 54
Using catalogs to manage theme images and colors........................................................................................ 55
Create a catalog......................................................................................................................................... 56
Add items to a catalog............................................................................................................................... 56
Add an image or color from a catalog to a theme..................................................................................... 56
Delete items from a catalog...................................................................................................................... 57
Open a catalog........................................................................................................................................... 57
Change a catalog........................................................................................................................................ 57
Delete a catalog......................................................................................................................................... 57
5 Changing fonts for themes............................................................................................................................... 58
Font settings..................................................................................................................................................... 58
Change fonts for multiple screens.................................................................................................................... 59
Change text settings for an element................................................................................................................. 59
Best practice: Using fonts effectively in themes............................................................................................... 59
6 Using colors....................................................................................................................................................... 61
Change the color of a theme element.............................................................................................................. 61
7 Customizing the Home screen.......................................................................................................................... 62
Change the Home screen wallpaper................................................................................................................. 62
Add an animation to the Home screen............................................................................................................. 62