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BlackBerry Theme Builder overview
- Customizable screen elements
- Quickstart screen
- Theme layout types
- BlackBerry Theme Builder workspace
  - Inspector
  - Toolbar
- Align objects
- Selecting multiple objects
Configuring the BlackBerry Theme Builder
- Change the screen that appears when the BlackBerry Theme Builder starts
- Configure properties for a theme
- Change the applications that you use for editors
- Change transparency settings
- Show or hide BlackBerry Theme Builder tools
- Show or hide the faceplate
- Change the faceplate
- SVG preview
  - Turn on the SVG preview
  - Turn off the SVG preview
Creating and changing theme projects
- Create a theme
  - Best practice: Naming a theme project
- Open a theme project
- Update a theme project created with an earlier version of the BlackBerry Theme Builder
- Save a theme project
- Changing theme layouts and screen sizes
  - Change the layout type
  - Convert a theme to a different screen size
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
  - Banner images with multiple states
  - Message list images with multiple states
  - Phone images that show 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
  - Create a catalog
  - Add items to a catalog
  - Add an image or color from a catalog to a theme
  - Delete items from a catalog
  - Open a catalog
  - Change a catalog
  - Delete a catalog
Changing fonts for themes
- Font settings
- Change fonts for multiple screens
- Change text settings for an element
- Best practice: Using fonts effectively in themes
Using colors
- Change the color of a theme element
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
  - Change the images on the Home screen for Today applications
  - Specify the applications that appear on the Home screen with a Today layout
- Customizing a Zen theme Home screen
  - Change the images on the Home screen for a Zen layout type
  - Specify the applications that appear on the Home screen with a Zen layout
- Customizing a Home screen with a BlackBerry 6 theme layout
- Customizing a Home screen with a Custom or Custom 6 theme layout
Designing banners
- Change the background image for a banner
- Change the size of a banner
- Add or remove banner items
- Change the text settings for banner elements
- Move the banner elements
- Change the underlay image for the Profiles icon
- Change the image for banner elements
Customizing external flip screens
- Customize the external Home screen
- Customize the external phone screen
- Customize indicators on the external screen
Customizing BlackBerry devices with touch screens
- Change BlackBerry device elements in portrait or landscape mode
- Design a Home screen that is different in landscape mode
- Keep focus on an object
- Change background images for the Shortcut bar
- Change navigation images for the Shortcut bar
Customizing the Application List screen
- Change the background image for the Application list screen
- Change the appearance of the tray
- Change the font for the calendar
- Change the icon for a BlackBerry device application
- Change multiple application icons at one time
- Add a link to the Application list screen
Customizing UI controls and application lists
- Show or hide UI controls
- Change the images for UI controls
- Change the text settings for UI controls
- Change colors for UI controls
Customizing the message list
- Change the text settings for the date
- Change the background image for the date bar
- Change images for the message list
- Change the color for messages sent with high importance
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
- Change the background image for the Lock screen
- Change the text settings for the Lock screen
- Change the lock image
- Move or resize the Lock screen elements
- Layer the Lock screen over the banner
- Add an animation to the Lock screen
Customizing global UI elements
- Change images for global UI elements
- Change colors for global UI elements
- Apply screen transitions
Testing your theme
- Using the BlackBerry Smartphone Simulator to test your theme
- Test your theme on a device
Managing themes on the BlackBerry device
- Delete a theme from 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
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BlackBerry Theme Builder overview

You can create themes to personalize the screens on the BlackBerry® device. For example, you can change the

background image, change the color of the font, change the applications that appear on the screens, set an application

to open a webpage, add a ring tone, and create screen transitions. You can use sample images that are included in

the BlackBerry Theme Builder or you can create your own images and use them in the BlackBerry Theme Builder.

You can create a theme for your device or you can make themes available online (for example, on the BlackBerry

App World™ storefront) so that BlackBerry device users can download them. Users can use the themes that are

provided on the device or they can download themes from online retailers.

You can install a BlackBerry Smartphone Simulator to test themes on your desktop before you distribute them to

devices, or you can install the themes directly on a device.

Customizable screen elements

Screen

element

Description

Home

screen

The Home screen appears when you turn on or unlock the

BlackBerry® device.

In your theme, you can make the following changes to the

Home screen:

• Change the background image

• Change the font type and font color

In the BlackBerry Theme Builder, you can customize the

Home screen for your theme by clicking the Home Screen

button in the Inspector.

For themes with a BlackBerry® 6 theme layout, you have the

additional option of making changes to the Today Home

screen by clicking the Today Home screen button in the

Inspector.

User Guide

BlackBerry Theme Builder overview