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
Customizing the Phone screens
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You can customize the Phone hotlist, the Active Call screen, and the Incoming Call screen. Depending on the phone
screen and the BlackBerry® device model, you can change the text color, font, background, and composite images
that are used on the phone. You can also add a ring tone to the Incoming Call screen.
Change the background image for the Phone screens
You can change the background image for the Active Call screen and the Incoming Call screen.
1. In the Inspector, click either the Active Call Phone Screen button or the Incoming Call Phone Screen button.
2. In the preview area of the canvas, click the background image.
3. On the Quick Edit bar, in the Background drop-down list, click Change Image.
4. Navigate to an image.
5. Click Open.
Change the text color for the phone screens
1. Do any of the following:
• To change the text color for elements on the Active Call screen, in the Inspector, click the Active Call Phone
Screen button.
• To change the text color for elements on the Incoming Call screen, in the Inspector, click the Incoming Call
Phone Screen button.
• To change the text color for elements on the Phone Hotlist, in the Inspector, click the Phone Hotlist button.
2. In the preview area of the canvas, click text that you want to change the color for.
3. On the Quick Edit bar, click the color swatch and specify a color.
4. Click OK.
Change images for the phone screens
You can change the images for the Phone Hotlist, Incoming Call, and Active Call screens. Some of the phone screens
use composite images. The composite image must include the same number of images as the one you are replacing.
For example, the volume slider image must be a composite image consisting of one row of 11 images, one image for
each possible volume state.
1. Do any of the following:
• To change the images for the Phone Hotlist screen, in the Inspector, click the Phone Hotlist button.
• To change the images for the Incoming Call screen, in the Inspector, click the Incoming Call Phone Screen
button.
• To change the images for the Active Call screen, in the Inspector, click the Active Call Phone Screen button.
2. In the preview area of the canvas, click an image.
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