openSAP Building Mobile Applications with SAP

Screen Personas
Week 1 Unit 1: Building Low-Code Mobile Applications
Topics Covered
1. About the Slipstream Engine
2. Course outline
3. SAP Screen Personas as a low-code development platform

Unit Summary

About the Slipstream Engine

The Slipstream Engine is an SAPUI5-based rendering engine that allows SAP Screen
Personas flavors to render on mobile devices. It also works on desktop browsers.

Course outline

This course is intended to be a primer on using SAP Screen Personas and its Flavor
Editor to build mobile applications. It is intended for:
• Business analysts
• Developers
• Architects
• Designers
Week 1 will focus on introducing you to the Slipstream Engine. It will cover:
• What makes SAP Screen Personas a low-code development platform
• The architecture behind the Slipstream Engine
• How to incorporate design thinking into your mobile application project planning
• Principles of mobile application design
• How to use the SAP Screen Personas editor to design your mobile application
Week 2 will cover many of the skills needed to build your mobile application. Topics
covered:
• Designing for different device sizes
• Accessing native device capabilities, such as a camera
• Creating templates for mobile flavors
• Using viewports to create wizard-like functionality for users
• Optimizing mobile flavor performance
Week 3 covers rollout-related topics and wraps up the course. It covers:
• Deploying your mobile SAP Screen Personas flavors to different users and roles
• Integrating flavors with the SAP Fiori launchpad
• Configuring the front-end server for the Slipstream Engine
• Using the Slipstream Engine with SAP Cloud Platform
• A summary of the course

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SAP Screen Personas as a low-code development platform

A low-code development platform allows users to create applications predominantly

through graphical interactions and configuration. They allow for a wider range of
participants in the application development process and quicker application creation
and deployment, helping organizations meet business needs faster. As the term
implies, low-code development platforms greatly reduce, but may not completely
eliminate the need to hand-code actions.

SAP Screen Personas is a low-code development platform. Using an existing classic

SAP transaction as a starting point, users can use its What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get
(WYSIWYG) editor to:

• Remove unnecessary controls from the screen

• Add elements to the screen
• Modify the appearance of screen elements
SAP Screen Personas also features an integrated scripting environment with recording
functionality to simplify coding and offers deployment tools to streamline project
rollout.

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