Create stunning phone UI themes quickly with the powerful, easy to use Carbide.ui tools
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Themes are among the most popular content for mobile phones. With the family of Carbide.ui tools, you can create themes for Symbian and Series 40 phones quickly and easily. Creating the graphics and sounds for themes is straightforward. Each Carbide.ui tool can link in your favourite bitmap-, vector graphics-, and audio-editing applications, enabling you to use the tools you already know. |
Once you've created a theme, you can use Carbide.ui to package and, in the case of a Symbian theme, sign your theme. Used with Nokia Suite, Carbide.ui enables you to automatically deploy a theme package to a phone for testing.
For more information on themes, visit the Themes page ›
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Carbide.ui Symbian Theme Edition 4.3 adds the ability to create theme for phones powered by Symbian Belle. The features that enable the creation of these themes are:
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Carbide.ui Series 40 Theme Edition provides an easy-to-use and flexible WYSIWYG editor for the creation of themes for Series 40 devices. Key features include:
See below for more details on key update. |
New features in Carbide.ui Series 40 Theme Edition 6.0
New theme creator |
Improved theme packaging |
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Redesigned wizard makes it easier to create themes, with a new feature for creating themes by selecting a Series 40 phone model. And, as new phone models are announced they can be added using an RSS feed from the Nokia Developer website. |
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All theme packaging properties are now automatically defined using information from the theme creator. In addition, a full list of all phone models the theme will work on is provided. Now, for most themes, packaging is a simple two-click process. |
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Automatic updates |
New Plug-in Manager |
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Updates to Carbide.ui Series 40 Theme Edition are now automatically notified as they become available. Updating is then a simple case of clicking in the notification pop-up. |
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You are now alerted to the availability of new and updated theme template plug-ins. Then you install and manage these plug-ins without leaving Carbide.ui. Now you will know you are able to create theme with the very latest features. |
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Key features of the tools in the Carbide.ui family
WYSIWYG functionality |
Support for all customisable theme components |
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Design themes easily with WYSIWYG layout tools, no layout-definition coding or specialised mobile-design experience needed. |
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Use all the customisable UI elements of Symbian and the Series 40 platform, such as background graphics, highlight areas, application icons, pop-up windows, colours, sounds, morphing effects, and the navigation bar. |
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Support for third-party editors |
Colour management features |
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Use your favourite graphics and audio editors. For Series 40 a Flash editor can also be linked into Carbide.ui. |
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Comprehensive colour-editing features provide a used-colours palette, drag-and-drop colourisation, and, using the Referenced Colors tool, the ability to update multiple colours in a single step. |
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Gallery view |
Packaging and DRM |
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The Gallery view provides an overview of all the screens that can be previewed in Carbide.ui. From the Gallery, screens can be opened in the editor with a single click. |
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Create signed Symbian OS installation (*.sis) files and Series 40 installable *.nth packages. Prepare files for the use of Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) DRM protection. |
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