Magmic Possibly Making Headway with Themes on BlackBerry 7 Devices

by Ronen Halevy on November 16th, 2011 · Leave a Comment

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Obviously take this with a grain of salt but the veteran theme developers at Magmic seem to be getting a little closer to possibly getting themes on BlackBerry 7. In case you don’t know RIM has not yet shipped a Theme Builder for BlackBerry 7 claiming the theme system was broken by the Liquid Graphics engine in BlackBerry 7. They said they do have an internal theme builder but nothing for external devs until mid-2012.

That has not stopped Magmic product manager @PeterMacPhoto from trying. He let us know that they have managed to get some parts of themes loaded on BlackBerry 7. On the other hand it is not an easy process and has some caveats and limitations in their workaround. Still he said they are “close to getting some full themes together” which is promising!

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“Themes” Start Showing Up in PlayBook App World

by Ronen Halevy on November 11th, 2011 · 2 Comments

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This one is a real head scratcher. RIM has yet to confirm or deny if developers will be able to theme the BBX OS like they can with BlackBerry 6 devices and earlier. Still that has not stopped RIM from opening up a new category in App World for the PlayBook for themes. The thing is the first “Theme” in that category is really just an app with some wallpaper options. The app is called “Christmas Themes” by Matthew Bailey for $1.99 which offers you multiple Christmas themed backgrounds for your PlayBook.

What do you think about this? Should RIM be marketing these in a separate “Themes” category?

Thanks Terrence for the pictures and other for sharing the news!

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DavidJAtkins.com ( View Profile) Newcomer - Posts: 6

Posted: November 11, 2011 at 8:47 AM EST

Oddly enough this Themes header has appeared all week – until today…

scuebydue ( View Profile) Master - Posts: 854

Posted: November 11, 2011 at 8:55 AM EST

David is right. It is gone now. Personally, I think it should go under a wallpaper or personalization group. It’s not really a theme.

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