Developing Fiori apps isn’t as easy as it once was. When Fiori was announced, it was a new and simple approach to design enterprise apps. Was, because the approach met reality. Reality regarding customer requirements as well as SAP specific requirements. With a customer base reaching from small to very, Read more…
SAP’s Business Application Studio is based on Theia. Several plugins for Fiori development are released by SAP to the VS Code marketplace. This means that it is possible to use these in Eclipse Theia. As written previously, this is only technically possible, as the VS Code marketplace TOU does not Read more…
Visual Studio Code from Microsoft is currently one of the most used IDEs by developers. It is fast, available for all platforms and can be used for almost all programming languages (hello ADT). It can be extended easily via plugins. Microsoft offers a central place to install plugins from: a Read more…
When SAP Business Application Studio fails to deliver value for the developer when extending SAP standard Fiori apps, blame the developer of the standard SAP Fiori application. In the good ol’ days a Fiori developer used SAP Web IDE to develop and extend apps. We hated Web IDE for many Read more…
After SAP decided last year on their own to not only moving away from their mobile hybrid SDK Kapsel, but to also end the Fiori Mobile Client (FMC), their mobile customers were not profusely grateful. While for FMC, SAP moved away from their decision and considered customer demands, the problem Read more…
Soy un perdedor I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you kill me? Loser – Beck The announced end of life for the public SAP Fiori Mobile Client is canceled. Scheduled initially for Q1/2021 it is now delayed to Q1/2022. That is another 12 months with the official Fiori Mobile Read more…
When you try to develop a Fiori app with the SAP Fiori tools for VS Code you get the error “btoa is not defined”. This error is caused by another SAP extension: mobile Development Kit extension for Visual Studio Code. You have to disable the MDK extension to be able Read more…
This blog is about how to create an oData service from a CDS View. The code and example follow closely SAP Help documentation and the included example on this topic: Develop CDS View Expose as OData service I only cut the documentation overhead and make the information available in a Read more…
Event information Location: SITMUC 2018, Einstein Kultur Date: 13.10.2018 Site: Event website Title: Creating apps with UI5 Presentation: PDF Additional information Make sure to select a language that supports the team, not just you. App development is not just coding: that’s why the presentation is about creating apps. It’s a Read more…
Event information Location: UI5Con 2019, SAP ROT03 Date: 28.06.2019 Site: Event website Title: More than Code Presentation: PDF Additional information Fruit Checker App is not a productive app. It is a showcase with the intention to make people think about the possibilities: what can you do today, value that combination Read more…