• SAPUI5 App Descriptor
• Async Module Definition
• Expression Binding
• Message Handling
• Smart Controls
• Flexibility Services
• Runtime Authoring
• ++Performance
• Addon: UI5 Inspector

• Configuration settings for your web app
• Higher flexibility
• Automatic instantiation without bootstraping
• Component.js refers to manifest.json

return UIComponent.extend("sap.anz.mvc", {
    metadata : {
        manifest: "json"
    },
    init : function () {
    // call the init function of the parent
    ...
    }

• or: Why the hell does the controller definition look different?

sap.ui.core.mvc.Controller.extend("sap.anz.controller.Master", {
  // instantiate every sinlge UI5 component you will need
});

sap.ui.define([
   "sap/ui/core/mvc/Controller"
], function (Controller) {
    // force strict mode for code interpretation
    // goal: catch mistakes, prevents 'unsafe' actions, disables 'poor' features
    // e.g. limit lookup scope to local and avoid global var declaration
   "use strict";
   return Controller.extend("sap.anz.controller.Master", {
      // your controller logic here
   });
});

• Control display using value-based calculation
• Replace trivial formatter functions for XML views
• Usage of very powerful, JS-ish expression language
• Mind the syntax collision of XML

<!-- set data-sap-ui-bindingSyntax='complex' in bootstrap -->
numberState="{= ${products>UnitPrice} > ${/priceThreshold} ? 'Error' : 'Success' }"

<!-- either escape value for '<'/'&' or modify logic -->
numberState="{= ${products>UnitPrice} <= ${/priceThreshold} ? 'Success' : 'Error' }"

• Use {:=one-time} binding for perfomance

• "value" property of TextArea is now only updated on submit or loose focus events, not every keystroke
• For keystroke updates use "valueLiveUpdate" property

• Using the Singleton sap.ui.get.core().getMessageManager()
• Following the Publish-Subscribe pattern
• Active automatic message generation in Component.js

return UIComponent.extend("sap.anz.mvc", {
    metadata : { manifest: "json", handleValidation  : true }...

• Messages can be created manually and persisted

sap.ui.getCore().getMessageManager().addMessages(
    new sap.ui.core.message.Message({
        message: "ZIP codes must have at least 23 digits",
        type: sap.ui.core.MessageType.Error,
        target: "/input10/value",
        persistent: true
    }); );

• Regular UI5 controls making use of OData metadata
• Requires SAP Annotations for OData to be enabled (e.g. in .xsodata)
• Features include automatic rendering, value search and smart linking
• Smart Field is the basic, reusable Smart Control

• Adaptation of a regular UI5 Form control with Smart Fields
• Toggle between read-only and edit mode
• Edit mode unleashes the potential of Smart Controls

• based on existing Table controls; either Analytical Table, Responsive Table (sap.m.Table) or regular Table (sap..ui.table.Table)
• Key features: automatic filter enablement and personalization enablement
• Excel export requires sap:supported-formats="xlsx" flag in OData annoations
• Table personalization is very powerful: column order & visibility, sorting, filtering, and grouping
• Use Variant Management to persist changes done to the table

<smartFilterBar:SmartFilterBar 
                id="smartFilterBar"
                entityType="Product"
                persistencyKey="SmartFilterPKey">
                <smartFilterBar:controlConfiguration>
                    <smartFilterBar:ControlConfiguration
                        key="Category" visibleInAdvancedArea="true"
                        preventInitialDataFetchInValueHelpDialog="false">
                    </smartFilterBar:ControlConfiguration>
                </smartFilterBar:controlConfiguration>
            </smartFilterBar:SmartFilterBar>

• add smartFilterBar:SelectOption for predefined data
• to handle with custom fields, implement 'beforeVariantSave' / 'afterVariantLoad' in controller
• 0-1 control configuration per key
• persistencyKey required for Variant Management

<smartTable:SmartTable 
    smartFilterId="smartFilterBar" 
    tableType="ResponsiveTable" 
    editable="false"
    entitySet="Products" 
    useVariantManagement="true"
    useTablePersonalisation="true" 
    header="Products" 
    showRowCount="true"
    useExportToExcel="false" 
    enableAutoBinding="true"
    persistencyKey="SmartTablePKey">
</smartTable:SmartTable>

• SmartFilterId references to a defined Smart Filter Bar
• enableAutoBinding requires entitySet to be defined

• Enabler for smart control change management and personalization features
• Variant Management requires server-side storage and retrieval (Component-changes.json)
• Variant repo divided into VENDOR, CUSTOMER, USER
• Services run on the ABAP front-end server and NetWeaver 7.31 SP11 or higher
• Also the enabler for Runtime Adaptation features

• Rendering time of sap.ui.table reduced by around 80%
• Version-specific CDN with documentation with 99.9% uptime
• Resuage of aggregation bindings to avoid flickering in Lists/Tables
• New OData Model (v2) implementation improves performance through reduced and more asynchronous requests
• Translation files can be loaded async now, sap.ui.model.resource.ResourceMode.async=true
• App- & CacheBuster for persistence of files to improve loading speed
• Faster "One Page Acceptance" tests thanks to new behavior of "waitFor"

• Chrome Devtools extension
• Inspect and modify UI5 controls, their properties, bindings, and data model