April 6th, 2025
Welcome back to the 120.dev development blog! This week, we've added a Welcome section and delete confirmation to our 120 AI Chat app. We also focused on refining the text rendering within our native apps. We've made significant strides in how text is displayed within our components, ensuring a cleaner and more user-friendly experience.
This week, we created a Welcome section for our 120 AI Chat app, marking an important milestone in our user onboarding experience. This carefully designed entry point serves both as an introduction to the application and a guide to help users configure their initial settings.
The Welcome section provides essential information about the app's capabilities while walking users through the setup process in a clear, approachable manner. We've designed this experience to be informative without overwhelming new users, presenting just enough guidance to get them started quickly.
As our chat functionality continues to evolve, we've implemented a delete confirmation feature for conversations. When users attempt to delete a thread, they now receive a thoughtfully designed confirmation prompt to prevent accidental data loss.
Notably, we chose to implement this confirmation system directly within our application rather than relying on native system prompts. This decision allows us to maintain consistent behavior across different operating systems, avoiding the fragmentation that would result from each platform's unique confirmation patterns.
One of our core design principles is that text should flow naturally within our interfaces. This week, we implemented text wrapping in our native apps following web standards. A key consideration was ensuring that words remain intact - rather than breaking mid-word, text now properly overflows its container when necessary.
This approach aligns with established web practices as documented in frameworks like TailwindCSS, bringing familiar behavior to our native applications. The result is more readable content that respects linguistic integrity while maintaining clean layouts.
Building on our text wrapping implementation, we added proper text ellipsis handling. When content exceeds its container boundaries, it now gracefully truncates with an ellipsis (…) rather than being overflown.
This subtle enhancement significantly improves user experience by providing a visual cue that additional content exists beyond what's currently visible.
We further extended our text handling capabilities by implementing line clamping. This feature allows us to limit text to a specified number of lines, automatically adding an ellipsis to indicate additional content.
The ability to control text display in this manner helps maintain visual consistency across our applications regardless of screen size or content length.
These enhancements to text handling lay essential groundwork for the interfaces we're building, especially for the AI chat features. Next week, we'll continue building upon these foundations while also working on our app settings.
Stay tuned for more updates from the 120.dev team!