Mobile Design Pattern: Theming

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Created: rahulvala (27 Jun 2009)

Last edited: hamishwillee (09 May 2012)

This design pattern is part of the Mobile Design Patterns series.

Description

A theme in mobile which contains information about clock wallpaper and environment related news e.g. temperature of city. It also contains updated date and time. And the information related to mobile like battery percentage of mobile and magnitude of signal strength of mobile.

Advantage

• Theme makes better look of mobile. • It gives basic information e.g. date and time very fast. • Some themes contains standard shortcut like SMS, mp3. • Theme gives graphical look to the application.

Disadvantage

• Every mobile theme does not contains the standard shortcut buttons.

Use when

We can use the theme when we need some graphical look to the application .