Create stunning device 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 devices 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. |
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Once you’ve created a theme, you can use Carbide.ui to package and, in the case of a Symbian theme, sign your theme. With Nokia PC Suite or Nokia Ovi Suite, Carbide.ui enables you to automatically deploy a theme package to a device for testing.
For more information on themes, visit the Themes page »
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Carbide.ui Symbian Theme Edition 4.0 offers an improved user interface. The tools you need are more accessible, making theme creation much more intuitive. The improvements include:
See below for more details. Download Carbide.ui Symbian Theme Edition » Carbide.ui Symbian Theme Edition provides built in support for Symbian^3 themes. To add support for the creation of themes for S60 5th Edition and earlier, as well as specific Nokia devices, download the Carbide.ui Theme Edition Plug-ins. |
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:
Download Carbide.ui Series 40 Theme Edition » In addition, to create themes for Series 40 6th Edition, Series 40 6th Edition Lite, and Series 40 6th Edition, Feature Pack 1 devices, download the Carbide.ui Series 40 plug-ins. |
New features in Carbide.ui Symbian Theme Edition
Richer component view |
Unified properties view |
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With faster refreshing, improved iconography, status indication, and filtering, reviewing components is now faster and better aligned to theme development needs. |
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All the properties of a component and the tools to manipulate them are now in one place. New tools, such as a slicer to create nine part components, are available too. |
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Tabbed preview |
Colour and gradient editor |
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Preview screens are now grouped into convenient tabs. This makes it easier to find and display specific previews, enabling the impact of component changes on the UI to be evaluated speedily. |
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An improved colour selection tool makes editing common colours and gradients straightforward. Get an instant preview of any changes and use the colour picker to sample colours from any source. |
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Export to PDF |
Automatic updates |
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Export all preview screens to a PDF document, at full resolution. It’s now much easier to evaluate and share theme ideas without having to install them on a device first. |
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As updates to Carbide.ui become available an automatic alert is shown in the tool. Then a single click is all that’s needed to get the latest features and functions. |
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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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