
Huawei has launched the HarmonyOS 6.0 developer beta, and at the same time, the company is bringing HarmonyOS 6.0.0 Beta 1 with a set of new features and ArkUI capabilities. The tech giant has added useful text input functions this time.
According to the details, Huawei HarmonyOS 6.0.0 (20) Beta 1 has many significant base open capabilities. It brings cross-thread data transmission features and improves the processing of pull-end requests with an optional CompletionHandler.
In addition, the new version expands background service capabilities and supports filtering of qualified grouped data. It adds new text input methods and high-level kit features likes Data Augmentation Kit, Enterprise Space Kit, Screen Time Guard Kit, and more.
We have mentioned the ArkUI capabilities found in the new HarmonyOS 6.0.0 (20) beta 1 version. You can check the complete changelog in the source link given below.

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ArkUI
Text and input component capabilities are enhanced, including:
- Added new text decoration line styles, supporting the setting of strikethrough and underline for text.
- The text component now supports defining whether the set text line spacing is effective for the first line.
- The basic definition of the text component now supports setting the display effect when the text is too long.
- The text input components (TextInput, TextArea, Search) have added a new verification code input mode ONE_TIME_CODE. It also corresponds to the provided C API property ARKUI_TEXTINPUT_TYPE_ONE_TIME_CODE .
- The text component adds a new text stroke style, which supports setting description width and color.
- Added C API to support counting text lines in text components (NODE_TEXT_LINE_COUNT).
- Added C API to support triggering long press events of Span components ( NODE_TEXT_SPAN_ON_LONG_PRESS ).
Other Features
- Refresh supports setting the maximum pull-down distance.
- Tabs support setting the page turning animation curve when sliding pages.
- Scrolling components support setting the start and end margins of the scroll bar.
- The Swiper component supports setting whether to keep the position of the visible content unchanged when inserting or deleting data above or in front of the display area.
- The drag event supports obtaining the screen ID where the event occurs.
- During the graphic change process, it is supported to set the rotation angle in a single direction.
- Custom pop-up windows support obtaining pop-up window status, such as initialization.
- Optimize the grid layout breakpoints. If the number of grid columns for a smaller breakpoint is not configured, the system uses the number of grid columns for a larger breakpoint that has been configured to complete the unconfigured number of grid columns.
- Added ToolBarItem component to support adding toolbar items to the window title bar.
- Added new capabilities related to accessibility events, providing the ability to intercept accessibility events after the system turns on accessibility mode.
- Supports custom enabling/disabling of corner mark display.
- Supports querying whether the current ComponentContent object has released the reference relationship with the backend entity node.
- Added C API to support setting component translation by percentage or specific value (NODE_TRANSLATE_WITH_PERCENT).
- Drawing class components support dynamic attribute setting methods through the attributeModifier.
- CanvasRenderingContext2D supports drawing rounded rectangles.
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