News about UI5 that you absolutely have to know (UI5con 2017)

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Stefan Beck, SAP SE
Frederic Berg, SAP SE
June 30, 2017
News about UI5
that you absolutely have
to know

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SDK download: https://tools.hana.ondemand.com/#sapui5
Finally after a long waiting time:

UI5 – Current Versions Next long-term maintenance release: 1.52 (Q1/18) 
1.28
1.46 1.48
1.44
EoM Q3/17
Detail information on update and maintenance strategy in note 2217489
See also https://sapui5.hana.ondemand.com/versionoverview.html
1.38
EoM Q3/18
May 2017
EoM Q3/17
August 2017
EoM Q4/17
January 2017
EoM Q4/19
…
You are here
1.50
We are there
Nov 2017
EoM Q1/18

UI5 market situation
Inside SAP
 Clearly set as the strategic UI technology
 Digital Core of SAP is built with UI5
 SAP SuccessFactors also successfully released first UI5 apps
Customers
 ~3250 ABAP customers regularly install UI5 patches (+7% since Jan)
 ~39 000 people/day launch UI5 via CDN/Akamai (+100% since Jan)

UI5 Product Strategy
Constant Key Pillars
 Be the best UI technology for enterprise grade applications in the SAP ecosystem
 UI5 applications must be customizable to the need of a customer
 The applications must perfectly integrate into SAP's Single Point of Entry Fiori Launchpad and
also into SAP's Portal experience

SAP Fiori 2.0
Evolution step for the SAP Fiori User Experience
 Existing concepts combined with new & improved ones
 Navigation and discovery enhancements
 Global settings
 New floorplans and layouts
 Refreshed visual design
 Beautiful transitions and animations

New controls:
 Avatar
 FlexibleColumnLayout
 SemanticPage
 CodeEditor
Control improvements:
 Two-column suggestion lists
 Dragging files to Upload
 Tickmark labels in Slider
 …
New Controls in 1.46

New Controls:
 LineMicroChart
 PDFViewer
Control improvements:
 Table row highlights
 TextArea character counter
 Several features in PlanningCalendar, Calendar, DatePicker
 Make RichTextEditor work with sap.m controls
 …
New Controls in 1.48

User can change important parts of the UI at runtime
 Re-arrange fields
 Change label texts
 Add form groups
 Add/hide fields
 …
Stable IDs in XML views required
Demo
Runtime UI Adaptation (to be continued…)

Completely re-written app
for all documentation and samples
Replaces
https://sapui5.hana.ondemand.com
New Demokit / SDK

New rule-based runtime analyzer gives hints for correct programming (Demo)
 URL parameter sap-ui-support=true or in technical information dialog (CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + P)
 Integration with test automation
 In-place custom rule editor
New Support Assistant

Recently emphasized Key Pillars
 Focus on SAP Cloud Platform to enable digital innovation
 Foster UI5 Evolution
 Facilitate the declarative programming approach
UI5 Product Strategy

Move applications towards loading UI5 from our cloud installation
 Speedup by global content delivery network (Akamai)
 All versions provided – see https://sapui5.hana.ondemand.com/versionoverview.html
 Also recommended for on-premise apps – UI5 will be removed from ABAP Mime Repository in 2018
Provide best possible overall experience on SAP Cloud Platform
 Easy build
 Easy deployment
 Easy integration
 UI flexibility out of the box
 Additional UI services offerings like e.g. Excel Export
UI5 goes Cloud

Metadata Driven Controls (MDC)
 On top of OData V4 but also supporting various REST Models
 Easier development of composite controls
 Atomic Controls and Helpers for Data Binding
 Common approach with Fiori Elements
New declarative approaches
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

UI5 Evaluation Project Cheetah took place in Q3/2016
“A next-gen UI5 solution –
starting with a focus on
Android mobile devices”

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Cheetah transitioned into
UI5 Evolution
ES6 Modules
Dependencies +
Bundling
Feature-based
Builds
Modular
Core
Bootstrapping,
Loading
App
Caching
Common
Build
Modules
CSS,
HTML
Web Fonts,
Resources
Third-Party
Libraries
View
Processing
Pre-
rendering
Web Workers
Control
Instances
Controls
Data Flow
Run-time
State
Virtual DOM
Tooling
Client-side app
Runtime
sources
sources
sourcesoptimized, static
resources
Buildtimetoday future
This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time.

Key Takeaways
UI5 is and will remain the best choice for enterprise grade apps
 A lot of new tools and features were and will be provided
 Known Product Qualities are still strategic
Still there is a focus shift towards
 UI5 Evolution
 Renovation and opening of the “smart stack”
…and everything will be optimally supported on and amended by SAP Cloud Platform

Thank you.
Contact information:
Stefan Beck
stefan.beck@sap.com
Frederic Berg
frederic.berg@sap.com
You are welcome to give feedback for this session in the UI5con Event App

No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or for any purpose without the express permission of SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company.
The information contained herein may be changed without prior notice. Some software products marketed by SAP SE and its distributors contain proprietary software components
of other software vendors. National product specifications may vary.
These materials are provided by SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company for informational purposes only, without representation or warranty of any kind, and SAP or its affiliated
companies shall not be liable for errors or omissions with respect to the materials. The only warranties for SAP or SAP affiliate company products and services are those that are
set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services, if any. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty.
In particular, SAP SE or its affiliated companies have no obligation to pursue any course of business outlined in this document or any related presentation, or to develop or release
any functionality mentioned therein. This document, or any related presentation, and SAP SE’s or its affiliated companies’ strategy and possible future developments, products,
and/or platform directions and functionality are all subject to change and may be changed by SAP SE or its affiliated companies at any time for any reason without notice. The
information in this document is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material, code, or functionality. All forward-looking statements are subject to various
risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements,
and they should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP SE (or an SAP affiliate company)
in Germany and other countries. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.
See http://global.sap.com/corporate-en/legal/copyright/index.epx for additional trademark information and notices.
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