Android Mobile App Feature Compatibility

See what SAP Analytics Cloud functionality is compatible with the Android mobile app.

For iOS Mobile app compatibility see the following iOS Mobile App Feature Compatibility

The Android mobile app can consume content in two modes:
  • Optimized Design Experience: this mode enables mobile users to benefit and leverage usability improvements in stories on Android mobile devices. Use this mode to work with stories created through the optimized design experience.
  • Legacy Mode : this is a non-optimized mode.

Optimized Story Experience

The information below applies to and Android mobile apps, and applies to stories created using Optimized Design Experience or Optimized View Mode.

What is supported with this mode? What is not supported with this Mode?

Requires an Android mobile device with at least 4 GB of RAM. Supported devices include Samsung Galaxy S9/S9 plus S10/S10plus, S4 Tab, S5 Tab, Google Pixel, Google Pixel 3 XL ). For the best experience, use a Samsung S10 plus or a mobile device with a fast processor and a good data or WIFI connection.

 
Comment widget is supported:
Note
Other commenting features are not supported.
  • Planning:
    • Value Driver Tree
    • Planning Trigger
  • Dynamic Images
  • R-Visualizations
  • Clock
  • Chart footers
  • Smart Insights
  • Top N options
  • Analytic Applications
  • Responsive pages:
    Note
    You can use Responsive or Canvas pages to consume stories in the Optimized Story Experience on your mobile app. It is however recommended to use Responsive for a better experience.
  • Canvas pages (including grid layout and some advanced features)
    Note
    The stories need to be set to Enable mobile support for Canvas Page.

    • Althought filters appear on both the page and filter panels - you should only modify filters in the filter panel.

  • Charts
    Note
    Forecasting in timeseries and timestamp charts is not supported.
  • Tables with limited support for cell actions:

    • Swap Axis

    • Drill

    • Display Options

    • Hyperlinks

      Note
      Table cell data is read only
  • Themes
    Note
    Background gradients and background images are not supported for mobile devices.
  • Images/Shapes
  • Text/Headers with Dynamic text support
  • RSS
  • Story Filters and Input Controls
  • Sharing and Annotation
  • Web Fonts
  • Web Pages
  • Hyperlinks
  • Prompts
  • Custom widgets:
    Note
    Custom widget author decides in custom widget configuration (contribution.json) whether this widget is displayed in Android Mobile App.
  • Widget full screen Landscape mode:
    Note
    Tablets only. Fullscreen landscape is not supported for Android phones.
  • Bookmarks: you can apply, save, and delete.
    Note

    You cannot rename bookmarks in the mobile app.

    While it is possible to add a bookmark, only one mobile bookmark can be added.

    A story-level linked analysis with bookmarks is not supported.

  • Chart Scaling
  • Geo maps
    Note
    Only Choropleth layer supported

  • Popups

    Note

    Popups aren’t responsive, thus likely to be cut on smaller devices. When designing popups, make sure that their sizes are fit to mobiles.
  • Canvas pages:
    • Reporting layout
    • Info panel
    • Planning Actions:
      • Multi Action
      • BPC Planning Sequence
      • Data Action
  • SAP Digital Boardroom
  • Device Preview
  • Story interactive mode
  • Chart title hyperlinks
  • Filters and filter actions:
    • Table filters
    • Undo/Redo
    • Measure/dimension/cross-calculation input controls.
      Note
      Translation of thes controls is not supported.
    • Complex filters (read-only support)
    • Cascading Effect (any changes to a page filter affects all related page filters with same dimension in the page)
    • Custom web font for page filter
  • Deeplinks
  • Geo map features:
    • Optimized Design Experience for geo maps
    • SAP Datasphere connection
  • Analytics Catalog
 Data Analyzer is not supported in the mobile app.
Local and live models (SAP HANA and SAP BW)  
  • Mobile application management through MDMs

Offline mode does not support the following features:

There is no offline support for the Android mobile app.

Script APIs in Optimized Story Experience

Most script APIs in Optimized Story Experience are supported, except for:

APIs Mobile App Support Notes
Export APIs No  
Open Data Explorer APIs No  
Smart Discovery APIs No  
Open Smart Insight dialog APIs No  
APIs related to unsupported widgets (such as Web Page, Geo Map, R Visualization) No  
Navigation panel APIs Limited Support

Tablets are supported, while mobile phones aren't supported.
Create navigation URL APIs No

APIs such as:

NavigationUtils.createStoryUrl

NavigationUtils.createApplicationUrl
APIs related to commenting No  
APIs related to BPC Planning Sequence No  
APIs related to Multi Actions No

execute

executeInBackground

getParameterValue

setParameterValue
APIs related to context menu No

setContextMenuVisible

setQuickActionsVisibility

Working with Live Data Sources for the Optimized Story Experience

With some noted exceptions, the information below applies to the Android mobile app, and applies to stories created using Optimized Design Experience or Optimized View Mode.

What is supported? What is not supported?
Live data connectivity
  • Direct type connections for BW & HANA data sources (authentication type):
    • SAML
    • Cloud Connector-based Mobile Single Sign-On
    • Basic
  • Tunnel type connection for BW & HANA data sources (authentication type):
    • SAML
  • HANA Cloud connection (authentication type):
    • SAML
    • Basic

    For more information on usage restrictions for this connection type see Live Data Connection to SAP HANA Cloud Using an "SAP HANA Cloud" Connection.

  • SAP Datasphere connection (authentication type):
    • SAML
Note
For direct SAML Connection, the IDP login is displayed for up to 60 sec to enter credentials. It closes automatically. In case of a timed-out or failed connection, tap Story refresh to reconnect your live data source.

Live data connectivity

  • Direct type connections for BW & HANA data sources (authentication type):
    • Token-based Single Sign On to live data sources
    • SAML login using user imported certificate
  • SAP Datasphere connection:
    • External Value Help
    • Geo maps
  IDP session timeout – inconsistent reconnection to data source.
Note
It is recommended that you manually refresh the story to reconnect.

Legacy Android Mode

General App Support Notes
Touch ID No  
Face ID No  
Notifications No  
Single sign-on Yes

Certificate, Cloud Connector and Tunnel support available.
User languages Yes

The menus, buttons, messages, and other elements of the user interface in the mobile app respect your device language settings. If you change the device language when the app is open, close and re-open the app for the changes to take effect. The following languages are supported:

Chinese (Simplified) (zhCN), Chinese (Traditional) (zhTW), Croation (HR), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), Dutch (NL), English (EN), French (FR), German (DE), Greek (EL), Finnish (FI), Hungarian (HU), Indonesian (IN), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Norwegian (Bokmal) (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (ptBR), Portuguese (ptPT) Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Turkish (TR), Slovak (SK), Spanish (ES), Ukrainian (UK)
Mobile Application Management - AppConfig support Limited Support Currently only VMware AirWatch, Microsoft Intune, and MobileIron Cloud are supported.
SAP Digital Boardroom presentations (agendas and dashboards) No  
SAP Analytics Designer Yes  
Data Analyzer No  
Imported data refresh Yes Through a WebView reload
Live data refresh Limited Support
For live data, currently the following connection types and authentication methods are supported by the mobile app:
  • SAP HANA
    • Type: Direct; Authentication: User Name and Password, SAML SSO, Cloud Connector, and Tunnel
    • Type: SAPCP; Authentication: User Name and Password, SAML SSO
      Note
      For User Name and Password, you can allow users to enter their credentials when prompted. Alternatively, when setting up the connection, select Save this credential for all users on this system, and users won't have to enter their credentials.
  • SAP BW
    • Type: Direct; Authentication: User Name and Password, SAML SSO, CloudConnector, Tunnel
  • SAP HANA CLOUD

    • Type: Direct; Authentication: User Name and Password, SAML SSO

  • DWC (SAP Datasphere connection)

    • Type: Direct; Authentication: SAML SSO

  • SAP S/4HANA
    • Type: Direct; Authentication: User Name and Password, SAML SSO
Note
  • The None authentication option is not supported in any scenario on the mobile app.
  • Only existing Path connections are supported. New Path connection types can no longer be created in SAP Analytics Cloud.
  • Currently on the app, SAML SSO authentication will prompt the user for a certificate though a popup screen if the certificate is imported on the device. If no certificate is available or access is denied, use the IDP login page to provide credentials.
Offline mode No  
Phone orientation Limited Support Portrait mode only. Landscape is not supported in Fullscreen mode
Tablet orientation Limited Support Landscape mode only.
Story Elements Mobile App Support Notes
Responsive Pages Yes If a story has a combination of responsive and non-responsive pages (Canvas and Grid), only the responsive pages can be opened.
Canvas Pages No  
Grid Pages No  
Data View (exploration) No  
KPI No  
Charts Yes Predictive forecasts are not currently supported.
Chart Footer No  
Chart Scaling Yes  
Table Limited Support

Table rows and columns are initially truncated, showing only a preview. Tap in the upper right corner of the table to expand it full screen and show the full table details.

Note
In full screen mode, there is a limit of 10,000 total table cells that can be displayed, with an upper limit of 1000 rows or 1000 columns.

Currently tables based on planning models do not allow you to make changes to the model data in the mobile app.
Filters and Input Controls Limited Support

As in the SAP Analytics Cloud web application, the mobile app supports a variety of story filters, page filters (Input Controls), chart filters, and Dimension and Measure Input Controls. The following differences apply to the mobile app:

  • Not support viewing advanced filter.
  • Chart filter:

    • The filters can only be deleted.

Note
For best performance when modifying a hierarchy member filter, limit hierarchy levels to include less than 7500 members.
BEx Variables and Prompts Yes  
HANA Variables and Prompts Yes  
Image Yes  
Shape Yes  
Text Limited Support Dynamic Text elements created from the following sources are not supported on mobile:

  • Tile filters and variables

  • Chart properties

  • Smart Insights

If your Story tile uses an unsupported source, the tile is not displayed on mobile. Dynamic Text elements from other sources are supported on mobile.
Clock No  
RSS Reader Yes  
BCP Planning Trigger No  

Data Action Trigger

 No  
Web Page Yes  
Value Driver Tree No  
Symbol Yes  
Geo Maps Limited Support
Will only work for stories loaded in View Time Optimized mode. For more information see Preparing Stories for Mobile.
Note
Only the Choropleth layer is supported.
R Visualization No  
Hyperlinks from story Limited Support
Links to other stories and story pages are supported. Also supported are links to external web pages and links that launch other apps.
Restriction
  • For tables, using the selected dimensions as a temporary filter for the destination story in the link is not supported. Charts do support this option.
  • Links to story pages that are hidden are not supported on mobile.
Search to Insight No  
Top N Options Limited Support Only Top 5 and Bottom 5 are available on mobile. Custom Top N options are not currently displayed in the mobile app.

Bookmarks

 Limited Support

If bookmarks exist, the user's default bookmark is applied when opening the story. The name of the bookmark is visible in the Input Controls panel. To change the default bookmark, you must use the SAP Analytics Cloud web application.
Analytics Designer Elements Mobile App Support Notes
Charts, Chart Footer, Chart Scaling Yes Predictive forecasts are not currently supported.
Table Limited Support

Table rows and columns are initially truncated, showing only a preview. Tap in the upper right corner of the table to expand it full screen and show the full table details.

Note
In full screen mode, there is a limit of 10,000 total table cells that can be displayed, with an upper limit of 1000 rows or 1000 columns.

Currently tables based on planning models do not allow you to make changes to the model data in the mobile app.
Filter Line Yes  
Input Control Limited Support

The following types are not supported:

  • Measure input controls
  • Advanced filters
Note
For best performance when modifying a hierarchy member filter, limit hierarchy levels to include less than 7500 members.
Data View (exploration) No  
BEx Variables and Prompts Limited Support The prompt dialog needs to be opened with script API, for example: table_1.getDataSource().openPromptDiaglog().
HANA Variables and Prompts Limited Support The prompt dialog needs to be opened with script API, for example: table_1.getDataSource().openPromptDiaglog().
Image Limited Support For setImage API:

  • Only HTTPS URL address is supported.

  • Self-signed HTTPS certificate isn't supported.
Shape Yes  
Text Limited Support Dynamic Text elements created from the following sources are not supported on mobile:

  • Tile filters and variables

  • Chart properties

  • Smart Insights

If your app tile uses an unsupported source, the tile is not displayed on mobile. Dynamic Text elements from other sources are supported on mobile.
Text Area Yes  
Input Field Yes  
Clock Yes  
RSS Reader Yes  
Web Page No  
Symbol Yes  
Geo Map No  
R Visualization No  
Tab Strip Yes  
Page Book Yes  
Flow Layout Panel Yes  
Top N Options Limited Support

Only Top 5 and Bottom 5 are available on mobile. Custom Top N options are not currently displayed in the mobile app.

It's only supported in full screen mode.
Analytic Application Bookmarks Yes To view all available bookmarks of an analytic application, swipe an app left, open the Details. All relevant bookmarks are listed there.
Custom Widget Yes Custom widget author decides in custom widget configuration (contribution.json) whether this widget is displayed in mobile app.
Commenting No  
Smart Capabilities No Smart Capabilities such as Smart Insight, Smart Discovery and Search to Insight are not supported.
Planning Limited Support

  • Only specific planning related APIs are supported, including setUserInput, copy planning version API and data action related ones.

  • Editing data in cross tabs is not supported.

  • Value driver tree is not supported.

  • Planning sequence widgets are not supported.

Most Analytics Designer script APIs are supported, except for:

Analytics Designer APIs Mobile App Support Notes
Export APIs No  
Open Data Explorer APIs No  
Smart Discovery APIs No  
Open Smart Insight dialog APIs No  
APIs related to unsupported widgets (such as Web Page, Geo Map, R Visualization) No  
Navigation panel APIs Limited Support

Tablets are supported, while mobile phones aren't supported.
Create navigation URL APIs No

APIs such as:

NavigationUtils.createStoryUrl

NavigationUtils.createApplicationUrl
APIs related to commenting No  
APIs related to BPC Planning Sequence No  
APIs related to Multi Actions No

execute

executeInBackground

getParameterValue

setParameterValue
APIs related to context menu No

setContextMenuVisible

setQuickActionsVisibility
Collaboration Mobile App Support Notes
Accessing content shared using app links Limited Support Cannot access content shared through the iOS app.
Discussions No  
Story annotations (comments) No  
Comment Widget Yes
Restriction

Editing comments on the comment widget is not supported.
Events No  
Save as PDF No  
Workspaces No