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

Screen element Image Image size in pixels
battery meter variable (multistate image)
signal meter variable (multistate image)
Home screen (Icon
theme)
background 240 x 260
icons, focus icon 60 x 55
new item indicator 48 x 36
Home screen (Zen
theme)
background 240 x 260
tab, tab focus 56 x 38
new item indicator, application menu,
application icon
48 x 36
Home screen (Today
theme)
background 240 x 260
caret 240 x 28
new item indicator 48 x 36
application menu 32 x 24
application icon 48 x 36
Controls dialog box icons 39 x 41
dialog box background, dialog box
buttons (all states), menu background,
title bar background
variable (pattern tile image)
Message list background variable (pattern tile image)
Phone phone receiver variable (multistate image)
volume control variable (multistate image)
incoming call background 240 x 260
Lock screen background 240 x 260
Global images transmission arrows 26 x 15 to 50 x 30
Alt mode 23 x 17 to 50 x 24
NUM lock, CAP lock 32 x 20 to 50 x 24
multi-tap 40 x 25 to 50 x 24
navigation arrows 16 x 9 to 28 x 18
hourglass cursor 32 x 32 to 50 x 50
Using catalogs to manage theme images and colors
You can use the BlackBerry® Theme Builder catalogs to save images and colors so that you can use them again later.
You can add images and colors, including gradient colors, to the Catalog panel to create a collection of resources that
you can access at any time.
User Guide
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