14 DAY TRIAL // Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion has just made available for download a new tool that would offer the possibility to easily personalize a Blackberry 6 device, namely the BlackBerry Theme Studio 6 Public Beta 2.
With this application, developers would be able to come up with themes for new (and upgraded) BlackBerry smartphones that run under the BlackBerry 6 OS, while also being able to import functionality for theme projects that were created with the previous releases of the app.
“This beta release supports theme development for all BlackBerry smartphones running BlackBerry 6, that are currently in-market, as well as simplified theme export for BlackBerry App World in order to quickly submit your BlackBerry 6 themes,” RIM notes in a recent blog post.
The said Import feature was enhanced so as to enable the importing of theme projects designed for handsets with BlackBerry Device Software prior to BlackBerry 6
In addition, the Import feature has been expanded to allow for importing previous theme projects that targeted devices running versions of BlackBerry Device Software prior to BlackBerry 6.
Following a series of simple steps, one would find it easy to import icons, menu/dialog background patterns, fonts, and the like from a project created with BlackBerry Theme Studio 5.0 to a new one in BlackBerry Theme Studio 6.
“Due to many changes to the base themes in the BlackBerry 6 OS, the Import feature can significantly reduce your effort by leveraging all previous settings that apply to the BlackBerry 6 theme,” RIM notes.
“There are a notable set of theme items that are unique to BlackBerry 6, such as home screen banner, notification and application trays, and calendar icon (digits now appear in the calendar icon based on system date) that will still require configuration after the import, but the import capability gives you a big head start.”
When importing a project, developers should take into consideration the device screen size of the source theme project.
The UI for Theme Builder comes with intuitive views, tabs and icons that are used in the entire BlackBerry Theme Studio 6.0 Public Beta 2. The application comes with a series of changes brought to the Background Wizard too.
The final release candidate for BlackBerry Theme Studio 6 is nearing, and those who would give the beta release a try should offer feedback on it, so that any issues with the software are fixed in due time.
BlackBerry Theme Studio 6 Public Beta 2 is available for download from Softpedia too, via this link.