SAP Fiori has transformed the user experience landscape in enterprise applications by delivering a modern, intuitive, and consistent interface across SAP solutions. A critical enabler behind this seamless UX is the SAP Fiori Component Libraries, which provide a comprehensive set of reusable UI components designed to follow SAP’s design principles.
This article introduces the basics of SAP Fiori Component Libraries, explaining their purpose, structure, and significance within the SAP Fiori Design Guidelines framework.
SAP Fiori Component Libraries are collections of pre-built, reusable UI components that developers use to build SAP Fiori applications. These libraries include buttons, tables, forms, charts, and other controls that adhere to the Fiori design language, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and responsiveness.
These components are primarily delivered through the SAPUI5 framework, the client-side technology foundation of SAP Fiori apps, providing rich, flexible, and extensible UI controls.
These are fundamental controls available in SAPUI5, such as:
They form the building blocks of most Fiori applications.
Fiori Elements are a higher-level abstraction that uses annotations and metadata-driven development to generate UI components automatically, such as:
They speed up app development by reducing manual coding, while still following Fiori design principles.
This is a newer approach, where SAP provides UI components as web components, decoupled from SAPUI5, usable in different frameworks. This library supports consistent styling and interaction patterns aligned with Fiori Guidelines.
SAP Fiori component libraries are organized to cover:
Developers typically use SAPUI5 libraries through tools like:
When creating a Fiori app, developers import the required component libraries and use their controls in XML or JavaScript views, leveraging the SAP Fiori Design Guidelines to ensure usability and accessibility.
SAP Fiori Component Libraries are the cornerstone of modern SAP UX development, enabling developers to create applications that are consistent, accessible, and responsive. Understanding the basics of these libraries helps SAP professionals deliver high-quality Fiori applications efficiently, aligned with SAP Fiori Design Guidelines.
Mastering these libraries is essential for anyone involved in SAP Fiori app design and development, as they bridge the gap between design concepts and practical implementation, driving the success of SAP’s user experience vision.