S02E06 UI5 CodeJam, News and Project experiences

In this episode Jan Penninkhof and Twan van den Broek sat together with:

• Kimmo Jokinen
• Jan Willem Molenaar
• Dennis Duivenbode
• Andreas Kunz
• Denise Nepraunig
• Martine van der Veen 

Together we discussed the CodeJam on UI5 at The Next View, got some UI5 news and talked about live experiences with UI5.

A few highlights:

• CodeJam UI5 covered basics and first steps into creating custom controls
• Andreas ins involved with UI5 from the early beginning, 2009
• How is the name Phoenix related to UI5
• CodeJam UI5 experiences is about learning new stuff but also reconnecting with peers
• Learning ‘tricks’ that you can bring to your projects to solve issues
• Reminded Andreas to internal UI5 Q&A sessions for SAP developers building Fiori apps
• Sports One built is with custom controls and lot of theming, doesn't look like Fiori at all
• Jan talks about Google Maps control developed by SAP Mentor John Patterson and the reason why he changed to the GeoMaps library for a mobile UI5 app
• Denise works on project runtime adaption, adapt a running UI5 app by keyusers
• As developer you need to make sure that your controls have stable, explicit, ID
• ABAP developer getting into 21st century by building UI5 app
• Experiences from ABAP developer getting into UI5 development