WO2019184490A1

WO2019184490A1 - Method for use in displaying icons of hosted applications, and device and storage medium

Info

Publication number: WO2019184490A1
Application number: PCT/CN2018/124522
Authority: WO
Inventors: 王飞
Original assignee: 上海连尚网络科技有限公司
Priority date: 2018-03-29
Filing date: 2018-12-27
Publication date: 2019-10-03
Also published as: CN108549510A

Abstract

A method for use in displaying icons of hosted applications in a host application, the method comprising: displaying a first number of icons of hosted applications in a preset region of a host application after detecting a user executing a first operation for a preset interface of the host application (S11); expanding the preset region after detecting the user executing a second operation when the preset interface is displayed at the host application, and displaying a second number of icons of hosted applications in the expanded preset region, wherein the second number is greater than or equal to the first number (S12). All of the hosted applications may be displayed by means of two operations of the user, thus reducing the layout pressure of a normal pull-down menu, and the hosted applications may be conveniently and quickly displayed to the user, thus facilitating the user in selecting and starting up the hosted applications conveniently, thereby better fulfilling user requirements and experience.

Description

Method, device and storage medium for displaying icons of a boarding application

[Technical Field]

The present application relates to the field of Internet applications, and in particular, to a method, device, and computer readable storage medium for displaying an icon of a hosted application in a host application.

【Background technique】

Currently, many applications act as hosts and open the hosting application interface. Hosting applications can rely on the host application to achieve the effect of no need to download and install; for example, the small program in WeChat can be used as a host application, relying on WeChat to run. As an industry habit, applets usually have a uniform entry; for example, the applet can be accessed via the "small program" tab in the WeChat "Discovery" tab. This way of entering the boarding application requires more steps, and the application display after entering the boarding application interface is not reasonable. Therefore, there is a need to provide a more reasonable way to showcase a homestay application.

[Summary of the Invention]

Some aspects of the present application provide a method, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium for displaying an icon of a hosted application in a host application.

An aspect of the present application provides a method for displaying an icon of a host application in a host application, including: after detecting that the user performs a first operation on a preset interface of the host application, in a preset area of the host application Displaying an icon of the first number of boarding applications; expanding the preset area after detecting that the user performs the second operation in the case that the host application displays the preset interface, and in the enlarged preset area An icon of a second number of boarding applications is displayed, the second number being greater than or equal to the first number.

In another aspect of the present application, an apparatus is provided, the apparatus comprising: one or more processors; storage means for storing one or more programs when the one or more programs are The processor executes such that the one or more processors implement any of the methods described above.

In another aspect of the present application, there is provided a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program, characterized in that the program, when executed by a processor, implements any of the above methods.

It can be seen from the technical solution that, in the foregoing embodiment of the present application, only a small number of boarding applications can be displayed when the user performs the first operation, and all or a larger number of boarding applications are displayed after the user continues to perform the second operation. . This kind of display method is beneficial to achieve a better balance between quickly browsing common boarding applications and fully browsing the boarding application; in addition, browsing the boarding application in a predetermined area after performing the first operation, and browsing by left and right sliding operation For all boarding applications, the solution provided by the above embodiment is more flexible in the display of the boarding application, and can reduce the extra operations caused by the browsing and searching of the boarding application, and the display and arrangement of the boarding application. More reasonable.

[Description of the Drawings]

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application, the drawings used in the embodiments or the prior art description will be briefly described below. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are the present application. For some embodiments, other drawings may be obtained from those of ordinary skill in the art in light of the inventive workability.

FIG. 1 is a schematic flowchart of a method for displaying an icon of a host application in a host application according to Embodiment 1 of the present application;

2 is a block diagram of an exemplary computer system/server suitable for use in implementing embodiments of the present invention.

【detailed description】

The technical solutions in some embodiments of the present application are clearly and completely described in the following with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present application. The embodiments are a part of the embodiments of the present application, and not all of them. All other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the present application without creative efforts are within the scope of the present application.

In addition, the term "and/or" herein is merely an association relationship describing an associated object, indicating that there may be three relationships, for example, A and/or B, which may indicate that A exists separately, and A and B exist at the same time. There are three cases of B alone. In addition, the character "/" in this article generally indicates that the contextual object is an "or" relationship.

FIG. 1 is a schematic flowchart of a method for displaying an icon of a host application in a host application according to Embodiment 1 of the present application. As shown in FIG. 1 , the method includes the following steps:

Step S11: After detecting that the user performs the first operation on the preset interface of the host application, displaying an icon of the first number of the host application in the preset area of the host application;

Step S12: After detecting that the user performs the second operation in the case that the host application displays the preset interface, the preset area is enlarged, and the second number of boarding applications are displayed in the expanded preset area. Icon, the second quantity being greater than or equal to the first quantity.

The execution body of the method shown in FIG. 1 may include a host application, and may also include a wireless device running the host application.

In the present application, the host application is an application client for installing on a wireless device, or an operating system of the wireless device; the host application is an application that depends on the host application, such as a small program in WeChat.

The wireless device includes, but is not limited to, any smart terminal device that can perform human-computer interaction with a user and can implement a wireless communication function, such as a smart phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, etc., of course, it can also be similar to others. The functional device is not limited in this embodiment. The smart terminal device can adopt any operating system, such as an Android operating system, an iOS operating system, a Windows operating system, and the like.

In a preferred implementation of step S11,

An icon of the first number of hosted applications is displayed in a preset area of the host application in response to the user performing a first operation on the preset interface of the host application. The user can open the hosted application by selecting an icon of the hosted application, such as a click operation.

Preferably, the first operation performed by the user on the preset interface of the host application includes, but is not limited to, a gesture operation performed by the user on the preset interface of the host application; or a preset element of the preset interface of the host application by the user. Click or touch operation.

The gesture operation performed by the user on the preset interface of the host application may include, for example, a pull-down operation, and the like, which is not limited in this embodiment. The clicking or touching operation on the preset element of the preset interface of the host application may be implemented by using various input methods, for example, by clicking a preset element displayed in the preset interface by using a mouse, or Clicking or touching the preset element on the touch screen having the preset interface. The preset element may be a touch point, a preset icon/picture, or a preset text, etc., which is not limited in this embodiment.

Preferably, the aforementioned preset area covers the top area of the host application. In some embodiments, displaying the icon of the first number of boarding applications in a predetermined area of the host application may be in the following manner: setting a pull-down menu at the top of the preset interface of the host application, and displaying a drop-down menu in response to the first operation of the user; The icon of the first number of boarding apps is displayed in the drop down menu.

In some embodiments, the pull-down menu covers a top area of the preset interface of the host application for displaying the host application; the original display content of the preset interface of the host application may be moved below the preset area, or faded The original display content of the host application's default interface. The fade, for example, display contrast, sharpness, brightness reduction, etc., in turn, may cause the icon of the first number of hosted applications displayed by the drop down menu to be highlighted on the preset interface of the host application.

Preferably, the preset area is provided with a first number of boarding application display bits, and the first number of boarding application icons may be displayed, for example, the drop-down menu is provided with 4 boarding application displays for displaying icons of the boarding application. Bit, you can display up to 4 boarding app icons.

In practical applications, the host application display position that is provided by the unexpanded preset area in the host application's preset interface is limited, and can only accommodate limited boarding application icons. Thus, in some embodiments, after detecting the first operation of the user, the icon of the displayed host application may be determined according to whether the number of all the host applications is greater than the first number of the host application display bits of the preset area. For example, if the number of boarding applications does not exceed the first upper limit of the host application display position in the preset area, the icon of all the boarding applications is displayed; if the number of boarding applications is greater than the number of the boarding application display bits in the preset area A quantity that displays an icon of a portion of the boarding application in the all-stay application, the number of the part of the boarding application not exceeding the first upper limit.

Preferably, the prompt information may be set in the preset area for prompting the user that there is still a hosted application icon that is not displayed. The prompt information may be a touch point, a preset picture/icon, or a preset text, and the like.

Preferably, the ranking of the icons of the hosted application to be displayed and/or the order of the icons of the hosted application to be displayed may be determined according to the user history operating behavior, such as the user's usage record of the hosted application. For example, the triggering operation of the user for each host application may be monitored, and the triggered trigger operation may be used as the historical operation behavior of the user, and the hosted application commonly used by the user may be obtained according to the historical operation behavior of the user, and the boarding to be displayed may be determined accordingly. The icon of the application and/or the ordering of the icons of the hosted application to be displayed. The triggering operation may include, but is not limited to, an operation of the user to start each of the boarding applications, an operation time of each of the boarding applications after the user starts each of the boarding applications, and the like.

Preferably, the host application may be obtained by the host application according to the user historical operation behavior, or may be uploaded to the server by the host application, and the server obtains the common boarding application according to the user historical operation behavior and pushes Display the host application.

In a preferred embodiment of the present application, the triggering operation of the user on each of the host applications in the preset time period is monitored, and the triggering operation in the preset time period is used as the historical operation behavior of the user, according to the user history. Operational Behavior Screens out commonly used hosted apps to display icons for commonly used hosted apps.

The specific process of filtering the hosted application according to the historical operation behavior of the user may be, for example, obtaining the number of triggering operations of each of the hosting applications, selecting the hosting application according to the order of the number of the triggered operations, or acquiring the trigger of each of the hosting applications. The operation time is selected in the order of the trigger operation time from near to far.

In another preferred embodiment of the present application, the triggering operation of the user on each of the host applications in the preset time period may be monitored, and the triggering operation in the preset time period is used as the historical operation behavior of the user, according to the The user history operation behavior filters out the boarding application that meets the preset trigger condition as a common boarding application for the user; for example, the screening meets the preset triggering condition, for example, the number of triggering operations reaches a preset number of times or the triggering operation time reaches a preset operation time, etc. Boarding applications as a common boarding application.

Preferably, the obtained common home-sending applications of the user may be sorted according to the triggering operation of the user, for example, according to the order of the number of triggering operations, or may be sorted according to the order of triggering operations from near to far.

Preferably, if the number of commonly used hosting applications of the user does not exceed the first upper limit of the hosting application display position in the preset area, an icon of all the commonly used hosting applications is displayed. If the number of commonly used host applications is greater than the first preset number of the host application display bits in the preset area, the icon of the first upper limit number of boarding applications is displayed only according to the sort order of the user's common boarding application.

In a preferred implementation of step S12,

After detecting that the user performs the second operation in the case that the host application displays the preset interface, expanding the preset area, and displaying an icon of the second number of boarding applications in the enlarged preset area, The second amount is greater than or equal to the first amount.

Preferably, the second operation of the user may be the same as or different from the first operation of the user. If the first operation is the same as the second operation; after detecting the user operation, determining whether the preset interface has been displayed in the host application; if not, determining the detected user operation as the first operation If yes, the detected user operation is judged as the second operation.

Preferably, the expanded preset area covers the interface of the host application full screen or covers the entire screen of the wireless device. Preferably, the preset area may be in the form of a drop-down menu, which covers the preset interface of the host application, or fades the original display content of the preset interface of the host application. The fade, for example, display contrast, sharpness, brightness reduction, etc., in turn, the content displayed by the drop down menu can be highlighted on the preset interface of the host application.

In practical applications, the number of display places of the boarding application that can be provided by the expanded preset area is also limited, and there is a second upper limit, which can only accommodate icons of limited boarding applications. After detecting the second operation of the user, the icon of the displayed boarding application may be determined based on whether the number of all the hosting applications is greater than the second upper limit of the expanded hosting application display position of the preset area.

For example, if the number of all the boarding applications is greater than the second upper limit of the boarding application display position of the expanded preset area, the icon of the part of the boarding application in all the boarding applications is displayed, and the number of the parting applications is not more than The second upper limit is stated. If the number of all boarding applications does not exceed the second upper limit of the expanded hosting application display position of the preset area, an icon of all boarding applications is displayed.

Preferably, all the boarding application icons can be displayed by page turning or sliding, and the user can perform a gesture operation performed on the preset interface of the host application or a click or touch operation on the preset elements of the host application to implement the preset. The page shows the page flip or slide of the boarding app icon.

Among them, turning pages can be turned left and right, page up and down, and the like. After the page is turned over, all or part of the icon of the application to be displayed except the displayed part of the boarding application icon in all the host applications is displayed in the preset area. Preferably, if the number of all boarding applications is greater than twice and above the second upper limit of the boarding application display position of the expanded preset area, the all boarding application icons may be displayed by page turning multiple times.

Sliding can be left and right sliding, sliding up and down, etc. When sliding display, the boarding application is gradually scrolling, such as the display of a slider that is similar to dragging the browser.

For example, if the user swipes the finger to the left on the preset interface of the host application, the leftward page or the leftward sliding of the boarding application icon displayed in the preset area is implemented according to a preset rule.

Preferably, in the page turning display, the thumbnails corresponding to the plurality of pages may be acquired and displayed in the preset area; that is, the thumbnails of the plurality of pages may be simultaneously displayed to the user, thereby improving the selected page, the moving page, and the like. Convenience of operation; can also improve the accuracy of the operation and avoid misoperation during page turning.

In some embodiments, if the number of all of the hosted applications is greater than the second upper limit of the display application display, the coverage of the display application display is reduced, and based on the reduced coverage of the hosted application display, the expanded preset An icon of the boarding application whose number exceeds the second upper limit is displayed in the area. Thus, when the number of boarding applications is large, a larger number of icons of the boarding application can be displayed in the enlarged preset area by narrowing the coverage of the host application display position.

In some embodiments, if the number of all the hosted applications is less than the second upper limit, the coverage of the expanded preset area may be determined according to the number of all the hosted applications, and in the expanded preset area. Displays icons for all of the boarding apps. If the number of displayed applications in each row of the preset area is m, and the number of all boarding applications is N, the number of rows of the host application display bits of the preset area is n=INT(N/m)+1; or The user performs the second predetermined operation, and the preset area is expanded to the full screen. Except for displaying all the host applications, the remaining boarding application display positions may not display any icons; in some embodiments, the boarding application display bits of the icons are not displayed. It is visually integrated with the background of the preset area.

Preferably, the method further comprises the step of initiating a corresponding host application in response to the user triggering an operation of an icon of any one of the predetermined applications in the predetermined area.

Preferably, the operation of the user to trigger an icon of any one of the predetermined areas of the predetermined application may be, for example, listening to the user's click or touch action on the hosted application in the preset area. The method is specifically implemented by using a plurality of input modes, for example, by clicking an icon displayed on the boarding application by a mouse, or clicking or touching an icon of the boarding application on the touch screen, which is not limited in this embodiment.

The host application display method provided in this embodiment can display only a small number of boarding applications when the user performs the first operation, and display all or a larger number of boarding applications after the user continues to perform the second operation. This kind of display method is beneficial to achieve a better balance between quickly browsing common boarding applications and fully browsing the boarding application; in addition, browsing the boarding application in a predetermined area after performing the first operation, and browsing by left and right sliding operation For all boarding applications, the solution provided by the above embodiment is more flexible in the display of the boarding application, and can reduce the extra operations caused by the browsing and searching of the boarding application, and the display and arrangement of the boarding application. More reasonable.

2 shows a block diagram of an exemplary computer system/server 012 suitable for use in implementing embodiments of the present invention. The computer system/server 012 shown in FIG. 2 is merely an example and should not impose any limitation on the function and scope of use of the embodiments of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, computer system/server 012 is embodied in the form of a general purpose computing device. Components of computer system/server 012 may include, but are not limited to, one or more processors or processing units 016, system memory 028, and bus 018 that connects different system components, including system memory 028 and processing unit 016.

Bus 018 represents one or more of several types of bus structures, including a memory bus or memory controller, a peripheral bus, a graphics acceleration port, a processor, or a local bus using any of a variety of bus structures. For example, these architectures include, but are not limited to, an Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) bus, a Micro Channel Architecture (MAC) bus, an Enhanced ISA Bus, a Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) local bus, and peripheral component interconnects ( PCI) bus.

Computer system/server 012 typically includes a variety of computer system readable media. These media can be any available media that can be accessed by computer system/server 012, including volatile and non-volatile media, removable and non-removable media.

System memory 028 can include computer system readable media in the form of volatile memory, such as random access memory (RAM) 030 and/or cache memory 032. Computer system/server 012 may further include other removable/non-removable, volatile/non-volatile computer system storage media. By way of example only, storage system 034 can be used to read and write non-removable, non-volatile magnetic media (not shown in Figure 2, commonly referred to as a "hard disk drive"). Although not shown in FIG. 2, a disk drive for reading and writing to a removable non-volatile disk (such as a "floppy disk"), and a removable non-volatile disk (such as a CD-ROM, DVD-ROM) may be provided. Or other optical media) read and write optical drive. In these cases, each drive can be coupled to bus 018 via one or more data medium interfaces. Memory 028 can include at least one program product having a set (e.g., at least one) of program modules configured to perform the functions of various embodiments of the present invention.

Program/utility 040 having a set (at least one) of program modules 042, which may be stored, for example, in memory 028, such program module 042 includes, but is not limited to, an operating system, one or more host applications, other programs Modules and program data, each of these examples or some combination may include an implementation of a network environment. Program module 042 typically performs the functions and/or methods of the embodiments described herein.

The computer system/server 012 can also be in communication with one or more external devices 014 (eg, a keyboard, pointing device, display 024, etc.), in which the computer system/server 012 communicates with an external radar device, and can also A plurality of devices that enable a user to interact with the computer system/server 012, and/or any device (eg, a network card, modem, etc.) that enables the computer system/server 012 to communicate with one or more other computing devices Communication. This communication can take place via an input/output (I/O) interface 022. Also, computer system/server 012 can also communicate with one or more networks (e.g., a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN), and/or a public network, such as the Internet) via network adapter 020. As shown in FIG. 2, network adapter 020 communicates with other modules of computer system/server 012 via bus 018. It should be understood that although not shown in FIG. 2, other hardware and/or software modules may be utilized in connection with computer system/server 012, including but not limited to: microcode, device drivers, redundant processing units, external disk drive arrays, RAID systems. , tape drives, and data backup storage systems.

Processing unit 016 performs the functions and/or methods of the described embodiments of the present invention by running a program stored in system memory 028.

The computer program described above may be provided in a computer storage medium encoded with a computer program that, when executed by one or more computers, causes one or more computers to perform the embodiment of the invention described above Method flow and/or device operation.

With the development of time and technology, the meaning of media is more and more extensive. The transmission route of computer programs is no longer limited by tangible media, and can also be downloaded directly from the network. Any combination of one or more computer readable media can be utilized. The computer readable medium can be a computer readable signal medium or a computer readable storage medium. The computer readable storage medium can be, for example, but not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, or device, or any combination of the above. More specific examples (non-exhaustive lists) of computer readable storage media include: electrical connections having one or more wires, a portable computer disk, a hard disk, a random access memory (RAM), a read only memory (ROM), Erasable programmable read only memory (EPROM or flash memory), optical fiber, portable compact disk read only memory (CD-ROM), optical storage device, magnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. In this document, a computer readable storage medium can be any tangible medium that can contain or store a program, which can be used by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus or device.

A computer readable signal medium may include a data signal that is propagated in the baseband or as part of a carrier, carrying computer readable program code. Such propagated data signals can take a variety of forms including, but not limited to, electromagnetic signals, optical signals, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. The computer readable signal medium can also be any computer readable medium other than a computer readable storage medium, which can transmit, propagate, or transport a program for use by or in connection with the instruction execution system, apparatus, or device. .

Program code embodied on a computer readable medium can be transmitted by any suitable medium, including but not limited to wireless, wire, fiber optic cable, RF, etc., or any suitable combination of the foregoing.

Computer program code for performing the operations of the present invention may be written in one or more programming languages, or a combination thereof, including an object oriented programming language such as Java, Smalltalk, C++, and conventional Procedural programming language—such as the "C" language or a similar programming language. The program code may execute entirely on the user's computer, partly on the user's computer, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the user's computer, partly on the remote computer, or entirely on the remote computer or server. In the case of a remote computer, the remote computer can be connected to the user's computer through any kind of network, including a local area network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN), or can be connected to an external computer (eg, using an Internet service provider to access the Internet) connection).

Finally, it should be noted that the above embodiments are only used to explain the technical solutions of the present application, and are not limited thereto; although the present application is described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, those skilled in the art should understand that they can still The technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments are modified, or the equivalents of the technical features are replaced by the equivalents. The modifications and substitutions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application.

Claims

A method for displaying an icon of a hosted application in a host application, comprising:

After detecting that the user performs the first operation on the preset interface of the host application, displaying an icon of the first number of boarding applications in a preset area of the host application;

After detecting that the user performs the second operation in the case that the host application displays the preset interface, expanding the preset area, and displaying an icon of the second number of boarding applications in the enlarged preset area, The second amount is greater than or equal to the first amount.
The method of claim 1 wherein said first operation comprises:

The gesture operation performed by the user in the preset interface of the host application; or the click or touch operation performed by the user on the preset element of the preset interface of the host application.
The method of claim 1 wherein said unexpanded said predetermined area covers a top area of said host application.
The method according to claim 3, wherein displaying the icon of the first number of boarding applications in the preset area comprises:

If the number of all host applications does not exceed the first upper limit of the host application display position of the preset area, an icon of all the boarding applications is displayed;

If the number of all the homestay applications is greater than the first upper limit, an icon of the part of the hosted applications in the all host applications is displayed, and the number of the part of the hosted applications does not exceed the first upper limit.
The method of claim 1 further comprising:

According to the user's usage record of the host application, the icon of the host application to be displayed is selected and/or the order of the icons of the host application to be displayed is determined.
The method of claim 1 wherein said first operation is the same as said second operation.
The method according to claim 1, wherein the expanded preset area covers an interface of the host application full screen or covers an entire screen of the wireless device.
The method of claim 7, wherein the displaying the icon of the second number of boarding applications comprises:

If the number of all the boarding applications is greater than the second upper limit of the expanded hosting application display position of the preset area, displaying an icon of the part of the boarding application in the all-hosting application, the number of the part of the boarding application does not exceed the second Upper limit.
The method of claim 7, wherein the displaying the icon of the second number of boarding applications comprises:

If the number of all the boarding applications is less than the second upper limit, determining the coverage of the enlarged preset area according to the number of all the hosted applications, and displaying the all of the boarding applications in the expanded preset area icon.
The method of claim 7 wherein the method further comprises:

If the number of all the boarding applications is greater than the second upper limit of the host application display position, the coverage of the boarding application display position is reduced, and based on the coverage of the reduced boarding application display position, the number of displays in the expanded preset area exceeds The icon of the second upper limit of the boarding application.
A device, characterized in that the device comprises:

One or more processors;

a storage device for storing one or more programs,

The one or more programs are executed by the one or more processors such that the one or more processors implement the method of any of claims 1-9.
A computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program, wherein the program, when executed by a processor, implements the method of any of claims 1-9.