This document discusses mobile development options for SAP applications, including native, hybrid, and web-based approaches. It describes the requirements and capabilities of tools like the SAP Cloud Platform SDKs for iOS and Android, the Mobile Development Kit for building metadata-driven apps, and Mobile Cards for simple data access. Demos are provided of the Mobile Development Kit and Mobile Cards. The discussion section addresses questions around native vs hybrid development and support for different mobile platforms.

1. Mobile in the present day
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2. The Options
Requirements
Android
Special Apps
Discussion
Content

3. Mobile options
￭ Native
￭ Hybrid Native (Mobile Development Kit)
￭ Mobile Cards
￭ Hybrid Web (Kapsel / Fiori Client)
￭ Web

4. Requirements
￭ SAP Cloud Platform mobile services
– SAP CP SDK for iOS / Android
– Mobile Development Kit (Android / iOS)
– Mobile Cards (iOS / Android)
￭ SAP Mobile Platform / SAP CPms
– SAP SMP SDK for Windows
– Kapsel / Fiori Client
￭ None
– Just the web

5. Native
￭ SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS
￭ AND Android
￭ SAP SMP SDK for Windows

6. Android
￭ Announced SapphireNOW
￭ TechEd Las Vegas GA
￭ Windows?

7. Android
Demo

8. Mobile Development Kit
￭ Metadata Driven Apps
￭ Utilize SAP CP SDKs
￭ iOS and Android
￭ Extendable

9. Mobile Development Kit
Demo

10. SAP Asset Manager
￭ iOS / Android
￭ - SAP Work Manager -
￭ Mobile Development Kit?
￭ Windows?

11. Mobile Cards
￭ Simple quick data
￭ Android / iOS

12. Mobile Cards
Demo

13. Hybrid Web / Kapsel / Fiori Client
￭ Stays supported
￭ Not the main focus

14. Web

15. Discussion / Questions
￭ Native vs Hybrid
￭ Cloud required?
￭ Mobile Development Kit vs Kapsel
￭ Windows?

16. Links
￭ https://developers.sap.com/group.sdk-android.html
￭ https://blogs.sap.com/2018/05/09/everyone-should-try-this-sap-mobile-cards/
￭ TechEd sessions:
– CGE370 Developing Enterprise Mobile Apps for Android
– CGE368 Build a Metadata-Driven Enterprise App with Mobile Development
Kit
– CGE366 Learn How to Customize SAP Asset Manager with the Mobile
Development Kit
￭ Learning Journeys:
– MDK