Blogs tagged ui5tips

UI5 offers a couple of widgets that can expand and collapse. To do that, these controls render a button with an icon that indicates the current state, and which the user can click to toggle the state. The standard icons that UI5 renders for the... Read More »

This tip provides a way to centrally manage UI state, and to persist it – automatically and without requiring intrusive custom code sprinkled through your apps. The UI State Many ui5 controls and widgets allow some aspect of their appearance... Read More »

In this ui5tip, we’ll take a look at integrating ui5’s sap.ui.model.json.JSONModel with sap.ui.util.Storage utility. Our immediate use case for this was to allow easy and transparent persistence of UI State, which has its own dedicated... Read More »

Standard UI5 event handling will usually go a long way. Yet sometimes, certain user actions can cause ui5 objects to generate a lot of similar events within a small period of time, and it is often not useful to handle each and all of them: only the... Read More »

Here’s a ui5tip to show how you can change the look and feel of the sap.m.TabContainer with a minimal amount of custom CSS. If you want to try this for yourself, be sure to check out the sample application from github. The... Read More »

UI5 apps always take a little time to load. If you don’t take any precautions, the user will be looking at a blank screen while the app is loading. It is fairly simple to add a splash screen and loading indicator to improve the user... Read More »