Plazmic 4.7 Content Development Kit OFFICIALLY Released!

on 16 Mar 2009 04:34 PM

FINALLY!!! The moment sooo many people have been waiting for. RIM has FINALLY released the Plazmic CDK version 4.7 which now allows for the legitimate creation of themes for the BlackBerry Storm, Curve 8900 and Curve 8350i.

To all the developers who have been making free and paid themes using previously leaked betas, stock the fridge with Red Bull and get ready for some pizza delivery as you've got a late night ahead of you revamping all of your past creations to make them "official" (and be sure to give free updates to any past customers!).

From there...let the fun and games begin! I can't wait to see all of the awesome theme creations that will be coming to CrackBerry Nation soon! FINALLY!!!!

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55 Comments

Posted by vx1 Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

Going to port my Bold Themes tonight now :) to 8900

Posted by SickNic Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

Sweet! I'm psyched. A lot of people have made some great themes already. I can't wait to see what they come up with next. Props to all those who've put in time for free themes!

Posted by anditskevin Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

there is no link for 4.7 there..

Posted by killastorm Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

come on kevin, there is no official 4.7 to download on the plazmic site!!!

Posted by Jalu21 Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

it's there

http://plazmic.com/en/download/index.shtml

Posted by thezman Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

With this release, you'd better believe that iVista 2 will be getting an update ASAP!

Posted by cleit0042 Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

That is great news, my favorite theme i have purchased so far. cant wait for the update

Posted by shaydakiss23 Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

WOOOOHOOOOO! Nice...now we can REALLY get some solid Storm themes!

Posted by anditskevin Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

i guess they just updated there site.. lol

Posted by flea620 Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

Can't wait to see what ya'll cook up!

Posted by natsfan7 Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

How is this better than the older software? Will it allow the developers to create better themes, or is it just the same software, but now it's "official"?

Posted by Jalu21 Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

there where a few problems like if you hit the mute button you couldn't turn it off on some themes

Posted by @ Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

Sweet I was hoping that was the reason. You can turn it off using the menus but not the screen button. Nice to know that was the reason.

Posted by mastermindjb Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

Maybe its just the sudden demand to download it, but I'm finding the link unavailable for the download.

Posted by Kevin Michaluk Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

Added the link that goes straight to the download location from BlackBerry.com

Posted by Jalu21 Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

I am downloading it now

Posted by @ Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

I hope this new version will be much better. I am having trouble figuring out why I can't put a special icon on for everything. I need to tinker longer. :)

happy theming

Posted by Yes! Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

I can't wait for all the STORM themes and updates! Woohoo!

Posted by knowledge_6 Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

sweet.. no more crashing phones and freezing..

Posted by davidnyc Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

someone post a mirror when they get this... the link is swamped!

Posted by npunk42 Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

Click, make a sandwich

Posted by mattzerby Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

When I go to run the install it tells me to choose another place to extract the file, every where i try it gives me that message. Anyone else getting this and if not how are you getting it to extract and where is it being sent to?

Posted by ChuckH0308 Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

I'm having the same problem. No matter what location I select it gives the same stupid message. I may try downloading it again later.

Posted by solace.discord Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

same issue here as well..

no clue what I'm doing wrong.

Posted by yzerman1978 Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

i know this is not for the bold, but is there a software to create themes for the bold?? can't seem to find it anywhere. help!

Posted by R1cowl Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

The Bold was released in 4.6 and now they have added the new devices. So have at it.

Posted by yzerman1978 Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

ok thanks so much

Posted by lets go authors.. Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

if all those themes for pay we'll get updated

Posted by rbecerra Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

I hope the fix the bugs with the storm today plus hidden...I love this theme, but those few quirks suck. And if they do update, how will we be notified so we can download those updates?

Posted by Geos Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

Taking forever to download. ]=

Posted by Butta Jones Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

About damn time :D

Posted by BasPilot Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

I can't wait, I'm gonna see what else there is available to do, maybe the things I wanted to add together will work now!

Posted by rapsball4 Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

I've been putting off playing with the Beta to try to make a theme for myself, but now it might be time to go for it.

Posted by Geos Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

The only things that would make it better would be a Verizon OS update for the Storm 9530, Facebook 1.5 being released, and maybe AppWorld coming to life.

Posted by Downtown1111 Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

Whoa! What about Bold?!! I can't make themes for the Bold? What kind of great upgrade is this then?

Posted by shaydlife Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

Things are about to be nuts on Crackberry for sure!!! Let's Ride.

Posted by Jiven Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

DL'ing from RIM @ 10.5KB/sec :(

Posted by dcruz1040 Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

Crackberry is basically the greatest website EVER!!!!

Posted by ProwlingTiger Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

Well, I wish there was a Mac version of Plazmic, but oh well. I've been creating themes for different systems for years, as graphics design is sort of a hobby of mine. Can't wait to get to work on BB ones!

Posted by Bla1ze Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

burst your bubble folks but really, not much has changed from the Beta to the official, a lot of the bugs that were in the beta still exist in the official release as well.

Lays to rest all the "I wont buy beta themes" though, considering their will not be much of a difference anyways lol.

Posted by humph Tuesday, Mar 17, 2009 1060 days ago

I totally agree with you!

At least they could have fixed the font issue with this release.... that is the fonts in the theme builder.. being cut off.

well that's about 2hrs of my life I'll never get back waiting for that rubbish to download.

Posted by Geos Monday, Mar 16, 2009 1060 days ago

It's done downloading. Now it's installing. Several (like >2) hours of download time. We'll see if it was worth it.

Posted by dcruz1040 Tuesday, Mar 17, 2009 1060 days ago

Keeps getting to like 95 mb. downloaded, but just stops!!! why why why????!!!

Posted by rjlive70 Tuesday, Mar 17, 2009 1060 days ago

...maybe now iberry blocks today theme won't freeze up my storm.

Posted by borockster Tuesday, Mar 17, 2009 1060 days ago

excellent

Posted by borockster Tuesday, Mar 17, 2009 1060 days ago

I got it early this morning and it won't export. DUD!

Posted by dixiehuntr Tuesday, Mar 17, 2009 1059 days ago

Have tried downloading it three times. First time got to 46% and then my internet messed up and it gave me an error message saying it couldnt access some site. Then tried it later only to have it stall at 2%. Immediately tried it again at 1am and went to sleep. Got up this morning and it evidently had not downloaded due to the program not being on my comp and nothing else on the screen. I guess due to so many people DL the server is overloaded. New to the them development and wanted to see what it was all about now that the official release has been made.

Posted by Deadpan Tuesday, Mar 17, 2009 1059 days ago

Woot! Time to pick up a new hobby!

Posted by tehnick Tuesday, Mar 17, 2009 1059 days ago

Seems to me that the official version really isn't all that much different. There are still things in my theme that are not skinned properly on the phone after export and multiple battery pulls. I even rebuilt the theme from scratch and exported it to test and same thing.

As far as I am concerned, this is still beta software.

Posted by jp41 Tuesday, Mar 17, 2009 1059 days ago

my question is does it still leak memory....?