Updated: October 20, 2022

Updates in 8.0

This article provides an overview of the ongoing topics for the SAP Business Technology Platform SDK for iOS version 8.0

What’s New

New App Icon Style and a Complete Guide to the App Icon Creation

The app icon of SAP mobile apps communicate the purpose of SAP’s mobile experience and supports business users in recognizing the app in the App Store and on their home screens.

Our new app icon design direction complements the new SAP Horizon visual design and creates a recognizable mobile brand. The balance between individual icon metaphors, characteristic shapes and coherent visual design embraces the SAP mobile product family.

We have created a guide that describes exactly how the new style should look like and how to create a new icon.

Examples of app icons
Examples of app icons

Updates in Horizon Theme

We added two more colors to each color group. The colors offer more variety of shades, allowing flexible uses of colors in UI elements. We also updated Semantic, Fill, Accent, and Core colors to make the components better aligned with our Fiori Horizon theme. Go to Colors to learn more

Fiori Horizon core color palette
Fiori Horizon core color palette

New Text Input Field

We are introducing an all-new text input field design. The design unifies form experience across platforms through Fiori design language. Go to Text Input Form Cell to learn more.

Text Input Form Cells in default, active, typing, and filled states
Text Input Form Cells in default, active, typing, and filled states

New Object Header

The new Object Header offers extra flexibility to fit more variety of use cases. With the introduction of the new layout, the component permits better use of space. Go to Object Header to learn more.

Object Header in an object page.
Object Header in an object page.

New Object Card and List Card Views

In addition to the Object Card View being updated with our refreshed button styles, we are introducing the new List Card View — a new card component that shows a preview of a set of items or objects in a vertical list format.

Object Card and List Card Views
Object Card and List Card Views

 

Enhancements

Object Cell Enhancement

The new enhancements on Object Cell provide additional flexibility to fit more use cases. These include (but are not limited to) updates to the layouts, spacing, avatar & thumbnail sizing, and supporting informational elements. Go to Object Cell to learn more.

Stencil for SDK 8.0

We are release the new stencil for SAP BTP SDK for iOS 8.0. Go to Stencil to learn more