Building Mobile Applications with SAPUI5

Mobile apps are often composed of several pages and the user can drill-down to detail pages and go back up again. This is often visualized by horizontal slide animations. SAPUI5 supports this pattern by providing the sap.m.App and sap.m.NavContainer controls, which handle the navigation between the pages.

The SAPUI5 Mobile library target devices run different operating systems and have very different screen sizes and pixel densities. SAPUI5 does some adaptations automatically. In addition to that, the application can further adapt to the current device.

sap.m.List and sap.m.Table both inherit from the abstract sap.m.ListBase and provide the features used for lists and tables.

Facet filters support users in finding the information they need from potentially very large data sets.

With SAPUI5 for Mobile you can easily trigger native mobile phone applications such as e-mail, telephone, and text messages.

Because of limited size of mobile devices, scrolling is an essential topic in mobile user experience. Smooth and easy scrolling is important for user acceptance of mobile applications.

SAPUI5 supports two options for building mobile apps: As a web application loaded from a URL, or as a hybrid app consisting of a native app wrapper, for example PhoneGap, and an HTML viewer to display the SAPUI5 content on the user interface.

Some notes on using images in mobile applications.

Recommended guidelines for message handling.

In addition to the general browser and control events you can access specific events for touch-enabled devices.

Mobile devices usually have a limited memory and processing power. Complex web pages may therefore have a negative impact on the application performance. This also depends on the mobile device and affects most likely the sap.m.List and sap.m.Table controls.

The MAKit Chart is a SAPUI5 control that provides charting features.