SAP Fiori Development Services

SAP Fiori is the latest offering from SAP with advanced user experience (UX), which is based on the modern design principles and providing a complete unswerving experience across various devices, achieves faster insight-to-action anytime and anywhere. There are countless apps that are currently applying the SAP Fiori user experience features to provide greater productivity and customization for customers, who happens to use SAP BusinessOne Suite on any database and powered by SAP S/4HANA. SAP Fiori also supports variety of roles in varied functional areas of businesses comprising Sales, HR, Finance, Procurement and Manufacturing. The SAP Fiori apps are very light-weight and specifically designed for consistent and routine tasks that improves productivity. The major shift that companies approach in recent times is the ability to build apps as quickly as possible that saves time and money. Businesses can build apps effectively and efficiently to generate a competitive advantage over their competitors in their markets across the globe they serve. Over the years, SEAL Infotech is providing the best SAP Fiori Development Services in Dubai, UAE. SAP Fiori tools provides many avenues to build apps quicker and increase your development efforts at economical costs. Here, we will list out few basic tips that makes your Fiori Development journey

1) SAP Fiori design guidelines

Go through the design guidelines for SAP Fiori. Fiori apps have become successful at a UX level because of the consistent designs. Right from the pixel-perfect precision of the designs and the space between them, everything is thoughtful. You need to understand the different application types exist; master or detail pattern is and what they are used for; get to the basics, patterns and controls, use of filters, placement of action buttons, and more.

2) sap.m library in UI5

The internal teams of Fiori developers at SAP were the first to experience UI5 toolkit and sap.m library and their controls within. They needed visual tools to construct clean apps. The designing and development teams built the controls inside the sap.m library. There were other controls that were used in the sap.ui.layout library which are vital too. But the main visible tools that are used to build the Fiori apps comes from sap.m library.

3) Components & Routing

These are vital for constructing the non-trivial apps. Still you can build apps without these 2 concepts, but you cannot include them in the Fiori Launchpad, and you cannot traverse to them from other Fiori apps. In the component theory, you need to think local and not global. A best Fiori app should be self-contained such as the UI5 runtime core and the central event bus. Each component has its own event bus, as well as its own router and routing definitions.

4) MVC and declarative views

Understand the structure of an app that is built, using screen-sized and unseen controls, and how the views are related to each other and to their controllers. Entire SAP Fiori apps have their views defined in XML.

5) WebIDE

SAP’s WebIDE got many things going for it, and you don’t need to make it your main environment. Extract and examine the reference apps, which have been placed in the Fiori Implementation Experience (FIX) team. Start developing a new Fiori app using templates, or one of the reference apps. It provides lot of moving parts and working well together is worth a lot.

6) Local development environment

Developing apps for the web is novel. It’s not inside-out development where you build UIs inside of an ABAP stack and then push to the target browser but its outside-in development environment directly for the new runtime, the browser.

7) Northwind

Northwind is the most populat OData service which is available for use. Get used to OData and its usage and doing that in a way which is not dependent of any backend SAP system. You can fast-track your journey along the SAP Fiori development learning curve by becoming independent of any specific backend SAP system.

8) Chrome Developer Tools & the UI5 Support Tool

When creating ABAP based solutions, its important to understand that the debugger is a powerful friend. The Chrome Developer tools and UI5 Support Tool are the equivalent now a days. Try to understand the development, debugging and tracing features of the Chrome Developer Tools; and also what the UI5 Support Tool provides.

9) Master data binding

Understand the intricacies of the object, property and aggregation bindings; get to know about the features of complex embedded binding syntax, sorting, filtering, grouping, formatting and factory functions. If you are making exclusive and explicit OData calls, it’s a bad code.

10) Study latest Fiori apps

Go through the templates and the reference apps in the WebIDE. Remember that the users who built the Fiori apps are like us. Even the bad code is important to read; find the patterns and anti-patterns and need to learn from them. Get more information about SEAL Infotech’s SAP Fiori Development Services either by calling us at +971-4-3670377 or mail to info@sealinfotech.ae.