In the first half of this year, SAP Fiori for Android and SAP Fiori for iOS as well as Joule mobile client have undergone a series of intelligent improvements aimed at elevating user experience and boosting productivity. These enhancements have introduced greater flexibility, consistency, and functionality across both platforms, ensuring that users can navigate their applications with ease and efficiency.
On top of that, the Joule Work app, formerly known as SAP Mobile Start, has been introduced at SAP Sapphire. With this app, complex tasks can be accomplished while on the go. Users simply need to define their goals and let AI take action.
Joule Work Mobile App
Joule Work is a central, intelligent workspace where AI takes charge of the busy work, enabling users to focus on driving outcomes. It transforms the work environment with a proactive, outcome-driven experience, where users articulate goals and AI coordinates actions across systems to accomplish them efficiently. Processes speed up considerably with proactive assistance, using the comprehensive business context of Joule Agents and Joule Assistants to highlight relevant data and suggest actions. This setup streamlines complexity, allowing users to focus on decision-making and outcome generation, while routine tasks are delegated to supervised agents. In addition to the web app, Joule Work offers a desktop app for faster access to local files and applications, as well as a mobile app for managing complex workflows on the go.
Conversations
Conversations act as dynamic interfaces for seamless interaction with Joule, making engagement intuitive and natural. Users can easily express their needs by typing, speaking, or attaching files, eliminating the need for traditional navigation methods. Joule enriches this process by offering context-based prompts, conducting platform-wide searches, and providing detailed answers with real-time data and interactive elements. By facilitating dialogue, conversations enable users to express their intentions and explore desired outcomes, drawing together insights and results from SAP and third-party systems. Moreover, conversations serve as entry points to spaces, supporting more complex workflows. This streamlined approach enhances user engagement and simplifies the pursuit of information and task completion.
Spaces
Spaces are dynamic, AI-generated workspaces tailored to match a user’s intent, offering a seamless user experience. These adaptable environments allow users to engage in conversations and customize features without navigating through apps or dashboards, ensuring that individual needs are met efficiently. Within a space, tasks can be completed using natural language or structured inputs, fostering intuitive and effective interactions. Spaces are created in real time, pulling together the necessary data, tools, and context to achieve specific goals. They display only essential information through actionable summary cards, tables, metrics, or alerts, enabling users to focus on their tasks without distractions. These persistent spaces ensure users can easily return to continue their work from where they left off, facilitating both simple and complex problem-solving with ease.
The Joule mobile client, which facilitates the integration of Joule into Joule Work, provides exciting new features designed to enhance user interaction and streamline communication. Dictation allows users to harness the power of their device’s built-in voice recognition, enabling hands-free messaging and smoother, more accessible conversation workflows with Joule. This innovation is perfect for busy professionals who need to multitask, as it allows them to communicate effortlessly without sacrificing productivity. The newly integrated typeahead feature intelligently offers contextual suggestions as users type. This predictive element cuts down on keystrokes and expedites prompt completion, resulting in more efficient interactions. Alongside these input features, Joule has also expanded its functionality with response actions, enabling users to easily copy or regenerate responses directly within the conversation. This means users can quickly reuse Joule’s outputs or request new answers without retyping prompts, offering a seamless, user-friendly experience. Additionally, the transparency and explainability feature has been improved to provide users with clearer insights into Joule’s AI-generated replies, ensuring they understand the response origins and details. Sources are now displayed separately from response insights, giving users straightforward access to the information that influences their conversations. Together, these updates demonstrate Joule’s commitment to enhancing user productivity and communication efficiency through innovative solutions while ensuring clarity and confidence in AI interactions.
What’s New in SAP Fiori for Android 26.1 and 26.4
Extended Card Header
The extended card header has been updated for greater flexibility, enabling you to place various components, such as tags, status indicators, or custom elements, together in a single row. This allows for more compact, streamlined, and versatile card layouts.
For more information, check out Card Header in the SAP Fiori for Android design guidelines.
Multi-User Onboarding
The user list now reflects SAP Fiori for iOS standards and displays users onboarded to a specific device, sorted from the earliest to the most recent.
The nodes in the step progress indicator, which is designed to track and display a user’s status within a user flow, now offer the same customization options as SAP BTP SDK for iOS. You can modify the size, layout, and icon in an icon node and specify different states for the icon node. When there are just a few steps, the width of each step expands to fill the screen, creating a more balanced layout.
A read-only state has been added to the list picker form cell, which allows for the selection of one or more options among values within a defined category. In this state, the selected value(s) are shown, and the chevron is removed. The cell height adjusts to ensure that all selected values are displayed without any truncation.
The switch form cell, which allows users to turn on/off individual settings, now includes a read-only state. In this state, the toggle switch control is replaced with a text label that indicates the pre-set value. While the default label is “On/Off,” you can customize it to provide more contextual messages, such as “Included/Not Included.”
The AI user feedback feature lets users share their experiences with AI. The inline AI feedback entry point has been updated to function as a standalone, reusable component.
The step progress indicator, which monitors and shows a user’s position within a user flow, has been enhanced. The width of each step node is now adaptable with a set minimum value, allowing the indicator to expand and fill the screen width when there are fewer steps visible.
The list picker now features a read-only state where selected values appear inline, the chevron is removed, and the cell becomes non-interactive. There is no word limit on displayed values. However, lengthy or multi-selected values might cause the cell height to stretch. To address this, we recommend either avoiding the read-only state or implementing a custom summary view.
The switch form cell now includes a read-only state where a text label, defaulting to “On/Off,” is shown instead of the visual switch. This label is fully customizable to offer more contextual messaging, such as “Included/Not Included.” The form cell height and padding are consistent with the active state, ensuring a seamless layout experience.
With the updated SAP Fiori for Android and iOS UI Kits, it’s now easier than ever to use the latest components and patterns in your mobile design. By using the UI Kits, you can quickly create a consistent user experience that enables app implementations at scale.
In the first half of this year, SAP Fiori for Android and SAP Fiori for iOS as well as Joule mobile client have undergone a series of intelligent improvements aimed at elevating user experience and boosting productivity. These enhancements have introduced greater flexibility, consistency, and functionality across both platforms, ensuring that users can navigate their applications with ease and efficiency.On top of that, the Joule Work app, formerly known as SAP Mobile Start, has been introduced at SAP Sapphire. With this app, complex tasks can be accomplished while on the go. Users simply need to define their goals and let AI take action. Joule Work Mobile AppJoule Work is a central, intelligent workspace where AI takes charge of the busy work, enabling users to focus on driving outcomes. It transforms the work environment with a proactive, outcome-driven experience, where users articulate goals and AI coordinates actions across systems to accomplish them efficiently. Processes speed up considerably with proactive assistance, using the comprehensive business context of Joule Agents and Joule Assistants to highlight relevant data and suggest actions. This setup streamlines complexity, allowing users to focus on decision-making and outcome generation, while routine tasks are delegated to supervised agents. In addition to the web app, Joule Work offers a desktop app for faster access to local files and applications, as well as a mobile app for managing complex workflows on the go.ConversationsConversations act as dynamic interfaces for seamless interaction with Joule, making engagement intuitive and natural. Users can easily express their needs by typing, speaking, or attaching files, eliminating the need for traditional navigation methods. Joule enriches this process by offering context-based prompts, conducting platform-wide searches, and providing detailed answers with real-time data and interactive elements. By facilitating dialogue, conversations enable users to express their intentions and explore desired outcomes, drawing together insights and results from SAP and third-party systems. Moreover, conversations serve as entry points to spaces, supporting more complex workflows. This streamlined approach enhances user engagement and simplifies the pursuit of information and task completion.SpacesSpaces are dynamic, AI-generated workspaces tailored to match a user’s intent, offering a seamless user experience. These adaptable environments allow users to engage in conversations and customize features without navigating through apps or dashboards, ensuring that individual needs are met efficiently. Within a space, tasks can be completed using natural language or structured inputs, fostering intuitive and effective interactions. Spaces are created in real time, pulling together the necessary data, tools, and context to achieve specific goals. They display only essential information through actionable summary cards, tables, metrics, or alerts, enabling users to focus on their tasks without distractions. These persistent spaces ensure users can easily return to continue their work from where they left off, facilitating both simple and complex problem-solving with ease.Download for Android | Download for iOS Joule mobile client The Joule mobile client, which facilitates the integration of Joule into Joule Work, provides exciting new features designed to enhance user interaction and streamline communication. Dictation allows users to harness the power of their device’s built-in voice recognition, enabling hands-free messaging and smoother, more accessible conversation workflows with Joule. This innovation is perfect for busy professionals who need to multitask, as it allows them to communicate effortlessly without sacrificing productivity. The newly integrated typeahead feature intelligently offers contextual suggestions as users type. This predictive element cuts down on keystrokes and expedites prompt completion, resulting in more efficient interactions. Alongside these input features, Joule has also expanded its functionality with response actions, enabling users to easily copy or regenerate responses directly within the conversation. This means users can quickly reuse Joule’s outputs or request new answers without retyping prompts, offering a seamless, user-friendly experience. Additionally, the transparency and explainability feature has been improved to provide users with clearer insights into Joule’s AI-generated replies, ensuring they understand the response origins and details. Sources are now displayed separately from response insights, giving users straightforward access to the information that influences their conversations. Together, these updates demonstrate Joule’s commitment to enhancing user productivity and communication efficiency through innovative solutions while ensuring clarity and confidence in AI interactions. What’s New in SAP Fiori for Android 26.1 and 26.4Extended Card HeaderThe extended card header has been updated for greater flexibility, enabling you to place various components, such as tags, status indicators, or custom elements, together in a single row. This allows for more compact, streamlined, and versatile card layouts.For more information, check out Card Header in the SAP Fiori for Android design guidelines.Multi-User OnboardingThe user list now reflects SAP Fiori for iOS standards and displays users onboarded to a specific device, sorted from the earliest to the most recent.For more information, check out Multi-User Onboarding.Step Progress IndicatorThe nodes in the step progress indicator, which is designed to track and display a user’s status within a user flow, now offer the same customization options as SAP BTP SDK for iOS. You can modify the size, layout, and icon in an icon node and specify different states for the icon node. When there are just a few steps, the width of each step expands to fill the screen, creating a more balanced layout.Refer to Step Progress Indicator to find out more about this component.List Picker Form CellA read-only state has been added to the list picker form cell, which allows for the selection of one or more options among values within a defined category. In this state, the selected value(s) are shown, and the chevron is removed. The cell height adjusts to ensure that all selected values are displayed without any truncation.Learn more about the List Picker Form Cell.Switch Form CellThe switch form cell, which allows users to turn on/off individual settings, now includes a read-only state. In this state, the toggle switch control is replaced with a text label that indicates the pre-set value. While the default label is “On/Off,” you can customize it to provide more contextual messages, such as “Included/Not Included.”See Switches for more details. What’s New in iOS 26.1 and 26.4AI User FeedbackThe AI user feedback feature lets users share their experiences with AI. The inline AI feedback entry point has been updated to function as a standalone, reusable component.See AI User Feedback for more information.Step Progress IndicatorThe step progress indicator, which monitors and shows a user’s position within a user flow, has been enhanced. The width of each step node is now adaptable with a set minimum value, allowing the indicator to expand and fill the screen width when there are fewer steps visible.Explore the Step Progress Indicator.List Picker Form CellThe list picker now features a read-only state where selected values appear inline, the chevron is removed, and the cell becomes non-interactive. There is no word limit on displayed values. However, lengthy or multi-selected values might cause the cell height to stretch. To address this, we recommend either avoiding the read-only state or implementing a custom summary view.Learn more about the List Picker Form Cell. Switch Form CellThe switch form cell now includes a read-only state where a text label, defaulting to “On/Off,” is shown instead of the visual switch. This label is fully customizable to offer more contextual messaging, such as “Included/Not Included.” The form cell height and padding are consistent with the active state, ensuring a seamless layout experience.Read more about the Switch Form Cell. UI Kits for FigmaWith the updated SAP Fiori for Android and iOS UI Kits, it’s now easier than ever to use the latest components and patterns in your mobile design. By using the UI Kits, you can quickly create a consistent user experience that enables app implementations at scale.SAP Fiori for Android UI Kits | SAP Fiori for iOS UI Kits Read More Technology Blog Posts by SAP articles
