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
4. To change the font color, on the Quick Edit bar, click the Fill box and click a color.
5. To change the font outline, on the Quick Edit bar, click the Stroke box and click a color.
6. To change the text alignment, on the Quick Edit bar, click the Alignment button.
Customizing a Today theme Home screen
Change the images on the Home screen for Today applications
1. In the Inspector, click the Home Screen button.
2. In the preview area of the canvas, click the Today application.
3. Do any of the following:
• To change the image that displays under applications on the Home screen, on the Quick Edit bar, click the
Cursor image.
• To change the image that displays under application items on the Home screen, on the Quick Edit bar, click
the Subcursor.
4. Navigate to an image.
5. Click Open.
Specify the applications that appear on the Home screen with a Today
layout
The Today theme displays three application icons on the Home screen, by default (Messages, Calendar, and Call Log).
You can add as many applications as you like to the Today Applications list; however, the BlackBerry® Theme Builder
only displays as many as will fit on the screen.
1. In the Inspector, click the Home Screen button.
2. On the Quick Edit bar, click Today Applications button.
3. In the Today Application List dialog box, drag the applications that you want from the right pane to the left
pane.
4. Click OK.
Customizing a Zen theme Home screen
Change the images on the Home screen for a Zen layout type
1. In the Inspector, click the Home Screen button.
2. In the preview area of the canvas, click an application image and perform one of the following actions:
• To change the image that is displayed in front or behind application icons on the Home screen, on the Quick
Edit bar, click the Tab drop-down list.
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Customizing a Today theme Home screen
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