App Builder vs River RDE

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Dear All,

There has been a great demand to develop Web Applications for Mobile and there are different Tools and IDEs  available for developers .

App Builder and River RDE are two different  Web IDE s offered from SAP to ease the development process of web applications for mobile underlying the UI5 libraries.

This blog mainly compares the different features available in each of them.

Features supported	Appbuilder ( 1.0.1252 )	River RDE ( Beta )
Release Date	November 2013	Sapphire Orlando 2014 , Beta
Pre Requisites	Node.js, JDK, cordova , Browser (Chrome /Safari )	Hana cloud account, Hana Cloud Connector and a Browser (Chrome/Safari)
Target Audience	Developers	Developers, Business Experts and Designers
Collaborative Development	no	yes
Runs On premise	yes	no
Mock Data support	yes	yes
OData consumption	yes	yes
Github integration	no	yes
Rest integration	yes	no
EDMX	no	yes
Version maintenance	no	yes
SMP integration	yes	supported in future
Cordova and Kapsel support	yes	supported in future
IOS	yes	yes
Android	yes	yes
Simulator	yes	yes
Develop Fiori like applications	complex	yes
Extending Fiori applications	no	yes
UI5 framework	yes	yes
CSS Styles	yes	yes
makit	yes	yes
Default templates	Superlist , Charts , Tab	Fiori
Default ui5 library	sap.m	sap.m
WYSIWYG	yes	yes
Theme Designer integration	no	supported in future
Price	Free	Free

Learn more about

App Builder

App Builder Tutorials

River RDE

River RDE Tutorials

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This document is open for editing and community members can feel free to add /edit points as the product version changes.