CN107577505B

CN107577505B - Method and device for operating, generating and starting application program

Info

Publication number: CN107577505B
Application number: CN201710643601.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 谭东晖; 孙谦
Original assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Current assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Priority date: 2011-11-26
Filing date: 2011-11-26
Publication date: 2021-01-05
Anticipated expiration: 2031-11-26
Also published as: CN103135969B; CN103135969A; CN107577505A; WO2013075667A1

Abstract

The invention discloses an operation, generation and starting method and device of an application program on one hand. The operation method of the application program comprises the following steps: displaying a program interface with desktop characteristics of an application program and a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program; and after detecting that the starting identifier of the third-party application is clicked, starting the third-party application. Through the mode, the method and the device can enable the program to be started more conveniently and the program to be used more humanized.

Description

Method and device for operating, generating and starting application program

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of computers, and in particular, to methods and apparatuses for operating, generating, and starting an application program.

Background

The desktop operating system may also be referred to as a personal computer system, and generally refers to a graphical interface operating system software installed on a personal computer.

Corresponding to the above-described Desktop operating system, a Desktop (hereinafter referred to as a system Desktop) in the field of computers refers to a main screen area that is viewed after a computer is opened and logged in to an operating system. Like the actual desktop in the physical world, the system desktop in the computer domain is the plane on which a user works on a computer. Typically, opening an application or folder will occur on the system desktop. Other items (e.g., applications, files, and folders) may also be placed on the system desktop and may be arranged randomly. Desktop definitions in the broader computer domain even include task bars and operating system sidebars, among others. Where the taskbar is at the edge of the screen, typically at the bottom, may display running programs and the content of the display may be switched between the various running programs. The sidebar is located on one side of the screen and typically contains an applet called gadget (or Widget).

The inventor of the present application finds that, in the prior art, when a user starts other third-party applications in an application program, the user generally switches to a system desktop first, selects a program icon of the third-party application on the system desktop, and activates and starts the third-party application after clicking.

The inventor of the present application has also found that the above-mentioned prior art method of starting other third-party applications in an application program is troublesome to operate, especially on a smart phone or a tablet computer. Due to the fact that the screens of the smart phone and the tablet personal computer are small, application icons displayed on the desktop of the system in one screen are very limited, and a user may need to turn the screen and page for many times to find a needed third-party application.

Disclosure of Invention

One aspect of the present invention is to provide a method and a device for operating, generating and starting an application program, which can make the program start more convenient and the program use more humanized.

One aspect of the invention is: provided is an operation method of an application program, including: displaying a program interface with desktop characteristics of an application program and a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program; and after detecting that the starting identifier of the third-party application is clicked, starting the third-party application.

Another aspect of the invention is: a method for generating a program interface in an application program is provided, which comprises the following steps: after receiving an instruction for starting an application program, starting the application program; and when the application program is started, displaying a program interface with desktop characteristics of the application program and a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program.

Yet another aspect of the invention is: provided is a program starting method, including: detecting a click action in a program interface of an application program with desktop characteristics; determining a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program in a program interface according to the click; and starting the third-party application corresponding to the determined starting identifier of the third-party application.

Yet another aspect of the invention is: there is provided a program generation method including: making an application program function module and at least one interface module for displaying the processing content of the function module; when the at least one interface module is manufactured, the window interface corresponding to the at least one interface module is obtained by inheriting a class with desktop characteristics, so that the runtime window interface can display a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with an application program, and the third-party application can be started after the starting identifier is clicked.

Yet another aspect of the invention is: provided is an operation method of an application program, including: displaying a program interface with desktop characteristics of the agent application and a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with the current front-end application program; and after detecting that the starting identifier of the third-party application is clicked, starting the third-party application.

Yet another aspect of the invention is: provided is an information processing apparatus including: the program interface display unit is used for displaying a program interface with desktop characteristics of an application program; the starting identifier display unit is used for displaying a starting identifier of the third-party application associated with the application program; and the third-party application starting unit is used for starting the third-party application after detecting that the starting identifier of the third-party application is clicked.

Yet another aspect of the invention is: an apparatus for generating a program interface in an application program is provided, including: the application program starting unit is used for starting the application program after receiving an instruction of starting the application program; the program interface display unit is used for displaying a program interface with desktop characteristics of the application program when the application program is started; and the starting identifier display unit is used for displaying the starting identifier of the third-party application associated with the application program when the application program is started.

Yet another aspect of the invention is: there is provided a program starting apparatus including: the system comprises a click action detection unit, a click action detection unit and a click action detection unit, wherein the click action detection unit is used for detecting whether a click action in a program interface with desktop characteristics of an application program exists or not; the third-party application determining unit is used for determining a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program in the program interface according to the click; and the third-party application starting unit is used for starting the third-party application corresponding to the determined starting identifier of the third-party application.

Yet another aspect of the invention is: provided is a program generation device including: a function module creation unit for creating an application function module; the interface module manufacturing unit is used for manufacturing at least one interface module for displaying the processing content of the functional module; when the at least one interface module is manufactured, the window interface corresponding to the at least one interface module is obtained by inheriting a class with desktop characteristics, so that the runtime window interface can display a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with an application program, and the third-party application can be started after the starting identifier is clicked.

Yet another aspect of the invention is: provided is an information processing apparatus including: the program interface display unit is used for displaying a program interface with desktop characteristics of the agent application; the starting identifier display unit is used for displaying a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with the current most front-end application program; and the third-party application starting unit is used for starting the third-party application after detecting that the starting identifier of the third-party application is clicked.

Different from the situation of the prior art, the above aspects of the present invention are realized by a virtualization mechanism of an application program interface, that is, a program interface with desktop characteristics of an application program or a proxy application is displayed during implementation, and a starting identifier of a third party application associated with the application program is displayed by using the desktop characteristics contained in the program interface with desktop characteristics, so that a user can dynamically integrate the third party application in one application as needed and start the third party application in the application interface; the user can start other third-party applications without leaving the current application interface, the trouble that the user needs to switch to a system desktop to search for the needed third-party applications is avoided, and the technical effects that the program is started more conveniently and the program use is more humanized are achieved.

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FIG. 1 is a flow chart of one embodiment of a method of operation of an application program of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a program interface with desktop features of an application program and a launch identifier of a third party application in the embodiment of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a flow chart of another embodiment of a method of operation of an application program of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of any two touch points touched simultaneously on the program interface in the embodiment of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a contact information browsing interface of the contact list application in the embodiment of FIG. 3;

FIG. 6 is a flow chart of another embodiment of a method of operation of an application program of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a flow chart of another embodiment of a method of operation of an application program of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a flow chart of another embodiment of a method of operation of an application program of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a flow chart of another embodiment of a method of operation of an application program of the present invention;

FIG. 10 is a flow chart of another embodiment of a method of operation of an application program of the present invention;

FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an application program reporting context information to an agent application in the embodiment of FIG. 10;

FIG. 12 is a flowchart of one embodiment of a method for generating a program interface in an application program;

FIG. 13 is a flowchart of one embodiment of a process initiation method of the present invention;

FIG. 14 is a flow chart of another embodiment of a program initiation method of the present invention;

FIG. 15 is a flow chart of another embodiment of a method of operation of an application program of the present invention;

FIG. 16 is a flow chart of another embodiment of a method of operation of an application program of the present invention;

FIG. 17 is a flow chart of another embodiment of a method of operation of an application program of the present invention;

FIG. 18 is a functional block diagram of an embodiment of an information processing apparatus of the present invention;

FIG. 19 is a functional block diagram of another embodiment of an information processing apparatus of the present invention;

FIG. 20 is a functional block diagram of another embodiment of an information processing apparatus of the present invention;

FIG. 21 is a functional block diagram of another embodiment of an information processing apparatus of the present invention;

FIG. 22 is a functional block diagram of another embodiment of an information processing apparatus of the present invention;

FIG. 23 is a functional block diagram of another embodiment of an information processing apparatus of the present invention;

FIG. 24 is a functional block diagram of one embodiment of an apparatus for generating a program interface in an application program in accordance with the present invention;

FIG. 25 is a functional block diagram of one embodiment of the program launch device of the present invention;

FIG. 26 is a functional block diagram of one embodiment of the program generating apparatus of the present invention;

FIG. 27 is a functional block diagram of another embodiment of an information processing apparatus of the present invention;

fig. 28 is a schematic block diagram of another embodiment of the information processing apparatus of the present invention.

Detailed Description

Referring to fig. 1, an embodiment of an operation method of the application program of the present invention includes:

step 101: displaying a program interface with desktop characteristics of an application program and a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program;

displaying a program interface of an application program after the application program is started, wherein the program interface has desktop characteristics; in addition, referring to fig. 2, after the application program is started, the program interface of the application program may be displayed, and the start identifier of the third-party application associated with the application program may be displayed immediately, that is, the start identifier of the third-party application associated with the application program may be displayed together with the program interface; of course, the start identifier of the third-party application associated with the application program may also be displayed by a condition trigger after the program interface of the application program is displayed, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present invention. The application program in a specific application case may be "document editing software" in fig. 2. The start identifier may be start identifier 1, start identifier 2, start identifier 3, start identifier 4, etc. shown in fig. 2. The starting identifier is displayed on the left side column of the program interface of the document editing software. The number of launch identifiers may be determined by the number of third party applications, and each launch identifier may correspond to one third party application. And the specific conditions involved in the condition triggering may be described with reference to fig. 4 and the like in relation to the predetermined conditions.

The starting identifier of the third-party application may be a starting icon started by a general program, may be a shortcut starting icon, and the like, and the embodiment of the present invention is not limited.

Step 102: and after detecting that the starting identifier of the third-party application is clicked, starting the third-party application.

In the running process of the application program, if the user clicks the starting identifier of the third-party application associated with the application program, the third-party application is directly started, and the user does not need to leave the program interface of the current application program and switch to the system desktop.

It can be understood that, in the above embodiment, the application program interface is virtualized, that is, a program interface with desktop characteristics of an application program or an agent application is displayed during implementation, and a desktop characteristic included in the program interface with desktop characteristics is utilized to display a start identifier of a third party application associated with the application program, so that a user can dynamically integrate the third party application in one application as needed and start the third party application in the application interface; the user can start other third-party applications without leaving the current application interface, the trouble that the user needs to switch to a system desktop to search for the needed third-party applications is avoided, and the technical effects that the program is started more conveniently and the program use is more humanized are achieved.

In the following description of the embodiments of the present invention, it can be clearly understood that the location of the start identifier of the third-party application in the screen may be various, and the start identifier may be inside the program interface of the current application program or outside the program interface of the current application program, and is independent of the current application program; in the case of the program interface of the current application program, the start identifier of the third-party application may also be placed in each part or each area of the program interface, which is not limited in the embodiments of the present invention;

as will be clearly understood from the following description of the embodiments of the present invention, a user may integrate the start identifier settings of other third-party applications commonly used in an application program into a program interface of the application program, or the application program may automatically determine the start identifier of the third-party application to be displayed in the current program interface according to user information, context information, and the like, which is not limited in the embodiments of the present invention.

As will be further clearly understood from the following description of the embodiments of the present invention, when a user starts an integrated other third-party application in an application program, the user can transfer the context information of the current application program to the other third-party application to be started and activated, which is not possible in the current manner of starting the third-party application by switching to the system desktop.

Other various methods and devices for achieving various functions, effects and objectives will become apparent in the following description of the embodiments of the invention, particularly as follows:

referring to fig. 3, another embodiment of the operation method of the application program of the present invention includes:

step 201: after an application program is started, displaying a program interface with desktop characteristics of the application program;

the program interface is a platform for a user to observe or operate the application program, displays the processing result of the application program, and monitors the input or operation of the user.

Step 202: displaying a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program after detecting that the preset condition is triggered;

in this embodiment, the start identifier of the third-party application associated with the application program is displayed in a program interface of the application program;

hiding a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program in a program interface of the application program before a preset condition is detected to be triggered; after the preset condition is detected to be triggered, displaying a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program in a program interface of the application program;

the detection that the predetermined condition is triggered, referring to fig. 4, may be that it is detected that any two touch points in the program interface of the application program are touched and pressed simultaneously for more than a preset time; fig. 4 is a program interface of a specific application example of an application program that is a mobile phone application program. In the program interface of the mobile phone application program, an upper area is an area for detecting whether a preset condition is triggered, and a lower area is an area for displaying the starting marks 1-4. For example, after two touch points are detected in the upper region, a predetermined condition that is triggered is satisfied, and thus the start markers 1-4 are displayed in a row in the lower region. Of course, the predetermined condition may be that any one, three, or more touch points are touched for more than a preset time, or a preset number of clicks without specifying the touch time, and the like, and the embodiment of the present invention is not limited;

in a specific application, after it is detected that any two touch points in a program interface of the application program are touched and pressed simultaneously for more than a preset time, a preset virtual desktop component is activated and displayed in the application program, and a start identifier of a third-party application is displayed in the virtual desktop component.

The hidden design is considered that in a smart phone, because a screen is small, too many starting identifiers of third-party applications may be displayed in a program interface to affect user experience, and therefore how to appropriately display the starting identifiers of the third-party applications needs to be considered in implementing virtual desktop of application programs in a touch-screen smart phone. The above provides a solution. In the above embodiment, when the predetermined condition is triggered, a virtual desktop toolbar displaying a start identifier of the third party application may be activated in the application program, where the toolbar is a component in the application program.

Similarly, the embodiment also has the technical effects of enabling the program to be started more conveniently and enabling the program to be used more humanized, and the starting identifier of the third-party application associated with the application program is displayed after the preset condition is detected to be triggered, so that the display space of the program interface is saved.

Of course, if the number of the start-up identifiers of the third-party application to be displayed is less, the start-up identifiers can be directly displayed on the corresponding program interface.

For example, referring to fig. 5, in a contact information browsing interface in which the application is a mobile phone address book, the interface supports virtual desktop features. The top end of a contact information browsing interface of the mobile phone address book displays an application program name of the mobile phone address book, and the middle area and the lower area respectively display a contact head portrait, a contact name (such as Zhang III), a mobile phone number (such as a mobile phone number 12345678900 of Zhang III), a microblog account number (zhangsan @ example. com), and buttons of 'sending a short message', 'making a call' and 'watching a microblog'. The buttons of sending a short message, making a call and watching microblog are designs that a starting identifier of a microblog application serving as a third-party application is added to the interface. And when the starting identifier of the microblog application is touched and pressed in the interface, the microblog application is started, the current contact information in the address book application is transmitted to the microblog application, and the microblog message issued by the current contact is displayed in the microblog application.

Step 203: and after detecting that the starting identifier of the third-party application is clicked, starting the third-party application.

Referring to fig. 6, another embodiment of the operation method of the application program of the present invention includes:

step 301: after an application program serving as a proxy application is started, displaying a program interface with desktop characteristics of the application program, and displaying a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with another application program in the program interface of the application program serving as the proxy application;

wherein the other application program is already running at present and becomes the application program at the most front end at present; in addition, the start identifier of the third-party application associated with another application program is displayed in the program interface of the application program as the proxy application.

Step 302: closing the other application program and the program interface thereof and the starting identifier of the third party application;

when the other application program needs to be closed, the application program serving as the proxy application is still running, but after the other application program needs to be closed, the start identifier of the third-party application associated with the other application program and displayed on the program interface of the application program serving as the proxy application is also closed, namely is not displayed.

Step 303: and starting the other application program, and displaying the starting identifier of the third-party application associated with the other application program in the program interface of the application program as the proxy application.

And starting a further application program to become the current most front-end application program instead of the other application program, and displaying the starting identifier of the third-party application associated with the further application program in the program interface of the application program as the proxy application.

The embodiment also has the technical effects of enabling the program to be started more conveniently and enabling the program to be used more humanized, and because the starting identifier of the third-party application is displayed by adopting the agent application, each application program does not need to be changed, and the popularization of the embodiment of the invention is facilitated.

The embodiment of the present invention does not limit the main body of the third party application, and may be an application program, an agent application, or a control window with a virtual desktop property, and therefore, the step of displaying the program interface with the desktop property of the application program and the start identifier of the third party application associated with the application program may be displaying the control window with the virtual desktop property of the application program, and displaying the start identifier of the third party application associated with the application program in the control window.

Referring to fig. 7, another embodiment of the operation method of the application program of the present invention includes:

step 401: after an application program is started, displaying a program interface with desktop characteristics of the application program, and displaying a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program;

Step 402: detecting an operation instruction for adding a starting identifier of another third-party application to a program interface of the application program;

step 403: adding and displaying a starting identifier of another third-party application in a program interface of the application program according to the instruction, adding the starting identifier of the other third-party application and information thereof into a third-party application linked list stored in the application program according to the instruction, adding relevant context information configuration, acquiring program information of the application program, and storing the program information in application configuration data;

for example, a translation application needs to be added as a third-party application to a sidebar of a program interface of the application program, and an icon of the translation application on the system desktop can be directly dragged into the sidebar. After an operation instruction of adding a starting identifier of another third-party application to the program interface of the application program is detected, the sidebar responds to the dragging action of the icon of the translation application, executes a method for adding the application program icon and configuring related context information, acquires corresponding program information of the translation application, and stores the program information in application configuration data. Therefore, when the application program is started next time, the added starting identifier of the third-party application can be displayed on the sidebar by reading the application configuration data.

Step 404: and after detecting that the starting identifier of the third-party application is clicked, starting the third-party application.

Starting another third-party application according to the starting identifier and the information of the other third-party application, and transmitting relevant application context information between the application program and the other third-party application according to relevant context information configuration stored in the application configuration data;

the process of transferring the relevant application context information between the application program and another third-party application comprises transferring the attribute information of the currently processed file of the application program, the selected copy content or the window display content as the relevant application context information to another third-party application.

For example, in an application example in which a document query application as a third-party application is configured in an editing application program, attribute information of a document of the editing application is to be transmitted as context information, and when the document query application is started in editing application software, attribute information of a currently edited document in the editing application software, such as an author, a title, a keyword, and the like, is transmitted as context information to the document query application.

For another example, clicking the launch identifier-icon-of the third party application in the sidebar of the editing application launches the translation application. Therefore, the user does not need to switch to the system desktop to start the common translation application, and information (such as copy content or content displayed by a certain window) required to be translated by the application program can be directly transmitted to the input parameters of the translation application as context information according to the configuration information.

In addition, when the starting identifier of the third-party application is clicked in the program interface, the application program at the front end can automatically execute the copying operation on the displayed or selected content such as a segment of characters and copy the content to the clipboard of the system; after the third-party application is started, the user can directly carry out pasting operation, and context information transfer is achieved. By automatically executing the copying operation when the third-party application is started, the information can be transmitted to the third-party application in a simple mode, and a user does not need to execute the copying operation by himself. Similar context information transfer configuration as described above may also be automatically performed, such as transferring content of a certain window or control of the current front-most application to a certain input parameter or control information of the translation software.

The embodiment also has the technical effects of enabling the program to be started more conveniently and enabling the program to be used more humanized, and more third-party applications can be added into the program interface of the application program, so that the method has higher flexibility, and a user can perform autonomous modification operation and select favorite third-party applications.

Referring to fig. 8, another embodiment of the operation method of the application program of the present invention includes:

step 501: after an application program is started, displaying a program interface with desktop characteristics of the application program, and displaying a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program;

step 502: detecting that an operation instruction of a third party application is deleted from a program interface of the application program;

when the user needs to delete a third-party application associated with the application program in the process of using the application program, a deleted operation instruction is sent out, and the program interface monitors the operation instruction.

Step 503: and deleting the starting identifier of one third-party application in the program interface of the application program according to the instruction, and deleting the information of the third-party application.

The method comprises the steps of deleting the starting identifier of the third-party application, deleting the information of the starting identifier, namely deleting the starting identifier and the information of the corresponding third-party application which are added to a third-party application linked list stored in an application program before, deleting the corresponding information from the relevant context information configuration, and deleting the corresponding program information of the third-party application in the application configuration data.

Step 504: and after detecting that the starting identifier of the third-party application is clicked, starting the third-party application.

The embodiment also has the technical effects of enabling the program to be started more conveniently and enabling the program to be used more humanized, and the starting identifier of the third-party application can be deleted, so that the flexibility is higher, and the user can perform autonomous modification operation and delete the starting identifier of the unwanted third-party application.

In the foregoing embodiments, the step of displaying the start identifier of the third-party application associated with the application program may be displayed in various manners, such as displaying the start identifier of a predetermined number of third-party applications associated with the application program and having the highest usage frequency. The predetermined number may be set arbitrarily, such as 3, 4, or 5, and so on, and is not limited herein. The most frequently used, which means that the user is most frequently used, is listed in a list that can be displayed for the convenience of the user.

For another example, the launch identifier of the third-party application, which is associated with the application program and has a usage frequency above a predetermined threshold, is displayed, and the launch identifier of the third-party application, which has a usage frequency at or below the predetermined threshold, is cleared. The predetermined threshold may be 1 time per day, 2 times per day, or 1 week 1 time, etc. And if the preset threshold value is exceeded, displaying, otherwise, clearing, and realizing the intelligent technical effect. The above numbers are exemplary only and not limiting herein.

For another example, the launch identifier of the third-party application associated with the application program is displayed at the side, top or bottom of the program interface of the application program with desktop features.

More specifically, the launch identifier of the third-party application associated with the application may be displayed in a menu bar or a tool bar at the side, top or bottom of the program interface of the application having desktop features, which is not limited herein.

The program interface with desktop property for displaying the application program may refer to a program interface with virtual desktop property for displaying the application program. Of course, other types of program interfaces with desktop features are also possible, and those skilled in the art can obtain other types of program interfaces with desktop features according to the embodiments of the present invention.

Referring to fig. 9, another embodiment of the operation method of the application program of the present invention includes:

step 601: after an application program is started, displaying a program interface with desktop characteristics of the application program;

step 602: detecting that an operation instruction of a third party application is added to a program interface of the application program;

step 603: adding a starting identifier of the third-party application and information thereof into a third-party application linked list stored in the application program according to the instruction, adding relevant context information configuration, acquiring program information of the application program, and storing the program information in application configuration data;

step 604: displaying a start identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program;

step 605: and starting the third-party application after detecting that the starting identifier of the third-party application is clicked.

And starting the third-party application according to the starting identifier and the information of the third-party application, and transmitting the related application context information between the application program and the third-party application according to the related context information configuration stored in the application configuration data.

The related application context information is transferred between the application program and the third-party application, and specifically, the related application context information may be transferred to the third-party application by using attribute information of a currently processed file of the application program, selection copy content, or window display content as the related application context information.

The method and the device have the technical effects of enabling the program to be started more conveniently and enabling the program to be used more humanized, and can add the new starting identifier of the third-party application in the program interface of the application program which is not related to the starting identifier of any third-party application.

In addition, a proxy application may be used to transfer the context information of the relevant application, and referring to fig. 10 in particular, another embodiment of the operation method of the application program of the present invention includes:

step 701: after an application program is started, displaying a program interface with desktop characteristics of the application program, and displaying a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program;

step 702: causing a proxy application to obtain program information for the application program;

the agent application can acquire the program information of the application program and also can acquire the user information; the user information may be obtained from an application, system or network;

specifically, the agent application may be made to obtain the program information of the application program through a communication mechanism with the application program, or obtain the program information of the application program by searching the application information installed in the system by itself.

Step 703: acquiring relevant application context information and third-party application information of the application program according to the program information of the application program;

for example, the related application context information may be content selected by the user in the application program, a name and a progress of a playing video, and the like, and the information of the third-party application to be started may be, for example, an application name and an identifier, and the like.

Step 704: after detecting that the starting identifier of the third-party application is clicked, starting the third-party application;

step 705: and enabling the agent application to provide the relevant context information of the application program to the third-party application according to the third-party application information.

Specifically, the agent application may provide the relevant context information of the application program to the third-party application according to the third-party application information and the request of the third-party application, and may further include user information and the like.

Besides, in step 701, in addition to the manner of displaying the start identifier of the third-party application associated with the application program from the beginning, before the display of the start identifier of the third-party application associated with the application program, the following steps may be performed:

A. acquiring user information and receiving related context information sent by the application program;

B. determining a starting identifier of a third-party application which can be displayed by the application program according to the relevant context information and the user information;

therefore, in the step of displaying the start identifier of the third-party application associated with the application program, the associated application program may be controlled to display the start identifier of the third-party application that can be displayed according to the start identifier of the third-party application that can be displayed.

In step 704, after detecting that the start identifier of the third-party application is clicked, if it is found that the clicked third-party application is not installed, installing the third-party application, and starting the third-party application after the installation is completed.

That is, the third-party application may be an application already installed in the system, or may be uninstalled, and if the user clicks to launch an uninstalled third-party application, the third-party application is downloaded and installed first. This also provides an application recommendation mechanism that allows users to more easily find applications that are valuable to themselves in activities such as work entertainment using software.

After the third-party application is started, if the information transfer is not performed in the context information transfer mode, the following mode can be adopted:

and copying the content displayed or selected in the application program to a clipboard of a system to wait for the third-party application to paste and input.

After step 705, the third party application performs corresponding processing based on the information provided by the proxy application. For example, the translation application as a third-party application may translate a text selected by the original document editing application, and the character recognition application may scan a picture according to an original picture displayed in the original document browsing application to perform character recognition, and so on.

For example, in a desktop system based on a browser, a Web application program capable of playing a Web video can be added by a user, and when the quality of a video played in the Web application program is poor, the user can start the third-party Web application. The third-party Web application obtains the name and the progress of the video played by the current Web application program from the proxy application of the system to play another network video resource, and the content and the progress of the played video are the same, so that seamless experience is realized.

The idea of using the agent application as the bearer agent of the third-party application is based on the following considerations: the user is allowed to manually add applications in the virtual desktop interface, which is flexible, but is also a time-consuming matter if manual addition is performed in many application programs. Through the agent application mode in the embodiment of the invention, the starting identifier of the related third-party application can be automatically displayed in the program interface of the agent application supporting the virtual desktop characteristic, and the mode of manually adding the starting identifier of the third-party application is replaced.

Referring to fig. 11, the application program may report its context information to the agent application, and the agent application determines a start identifier of the third-party application that the application can display according to the context information, the user information, and the like. And automatically presenting the starting identifier of the related third-party application in a program interface of the application program. For example, as shown in fig. 11, the upper area of the program interface of an application program is an automatic presentation area of the start identifiers 1 to 4 of the third-party application, and the lower area is application content. The application program may send the relevant context information to the agent application resident program, and then the agent application resident program notifies an application program which may display the launch identifiers of the associated third party applications, which may be displayed in the automatic presentation area of the program interface. The related context information may include task type description of the current application, such as activity types of editing, instant messaging, texting, browsing web pages, and the like, and may further include detailed information of the task, such as addresses of the browsing web pages, keywords in the web pages, and the like. If the current application task is an interface for sending short messages, the application program informs the agent resident program of relevant context information (such as the task type for sending short messages), the agent program can determine relevant third-party application according to the task type, such as common festival blessing short message application, and informs the application program, and the application identifier of the third party is displayed in the presentation area, so that a user can conveniently obtain common functions after clicking, such as common blessing short messages and the like.

The third party application may be an application already installed in the system or may be uninstalled, and if the user clicks to start an uninstalled third party application, the third party application is downloaded and installed first. This also provides an application recommendation mechanism that allows users to more easily find applications that are valuable to themselves in activities such as work entertainment using software.

Therefore, related context information can be better transmitted between the application program and the third-party application in an agent mode, and the starting identifier of the third-party application can be dynamically displayed in the program interface.

In addition, the application program can be provided with virtual desktop characteristics by providing a control with virtual desktop capability. The application program using the control has desktop properties within the interface range of the control. For example, a toolbar virtual desktop control can be provided, a toolbar control with desktop characteristics is added to an application program, and a starting identifier of a third-party application can be added and displayed in a virtual desktop toolbar of the application program.

Referring to fig. 12, the present invention further provides an embodiment of a method for generating a program interface in an application program, where the method includes:

step 801: after receiving an instruction for starting an application program, starting the application program;

step 802: and when the application program is started, displaying a program interface with desktop characteristics of the application program and a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program.

The embodiment also has the technical effects of enabling the program to be started more conveniently and enabling the program to be used more humanized.

The manner of displaying the start identifier of the third-party application associated with the application program may be: displaying a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program in a program interface of the application program;

of course, as mentioned above, the display may also be performed in other manners, for example, displaying the start identifier of the third-party application associated with another application in the program interface of the application program as the proxy application.

Even, as previously mentioned, it is also possible to: the method and the device for displaying the application program include displaying a control window of the application program with the virtual desktop property, and displaying a start identifier of a third party application associated with the application program in the control window.

Referring to fig. 13, the present invention further provides an embodiment of a program starting method, where the method includes:

step 901: detecting a click action in a program interface of an application program with desktop characteristics;

step 902: determining a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program in a program interface according to the click;

step 903: and starting the third-party application corresponding to the determined starting identifier of the third-party application.

Referring to fig. 14, another embodiment of the program starting method of the present invention includes:

step 1001: detecting that an operation instruction of a third party application is added to a program interface of the application program;

step 1002: adding a starting identifier of the third-party application and information thereof into a third-party application linked list stored in the application program according to the instruction, adding relevant context information configuration, acquiring program information of the application program, and storing the program information in application configuration data;

step 1003: detecting a click action in a program interface of an application program with desktop characteristics;

step 1004: determining a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program in a program interface according to the click;

step 1005: starting the third-party application corresponding to the determined starting identifier of the third-party application;

specifically, the third-party application is started according to the starting identifier and the information of the third-party application, and the related application context information is transferred between the application program and the third-party application according to the related context information configuration stored in the application configuration data.

Step 1006: and copying the content displayed or selected in the application program to a clipboard of a system to wait for the third-party application to paste and input.

In accordance with the spirit and scope of the present invention, there is also provided an embodiment of a program generation method, the method comprising:

making an application program function module and at least one interface module for displaying the processing content of the function module;

when the at least one interface module is manufactured, the window interface corresponding to the at least one interface module is obtained by inheriting a class with desktop characteristics, so that the runtime window interface can display a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with an application program, and the third-party application can be started after the starting identifier is clicked.

And the window interface corresponding to the at least one interface module is obtained by inheriting a class with the characteristics of a virtual desktop. In particular, during implementation, a class library with desktop properties may be provided, and may include classes with desktop properties, such as a virtual desktop class (vdessopname, vdessopactive, or the like), where the class includes properties and methods related to the virtual desktop properties, and any object such as a window, a view, or a control inherited from the class also has the desktop properties. Of course, the desktop property may be inherited from other types of desktop properties, and is not limited herein.

It can be seen that a program interface of an application inherits from the virtual desktop class, and inherits corresponding properties and methods of the virtual desktop, thereby having the capability and characteristics of the desktop.

Wherein the step of inheriting by a class having virtual desktop properties comprises:

inheriting, by a class having virtual desktop properties, properties of a corresponding window interface, the inherited properties including:

the area information (vDesktopArea) containing the application identifier is used for limiting the area in the current program interface, in which the start identifier of the third-party application can be added and displayed;

an application information list (appList) for storing a list of third party applications to be displayed;

the context information (contextInfo) is used for storing the context information of the current application program and the configuration information of the context transfer between the application program and the third-party application. Such as content information displayed or selected by the current application, and configuration information transferred by the context information of the application program and the third-party application, such as the relationship between the output information of the application program, clipboard information, and input information of the third-party application.

Of course, the following attributes may also be included:

the user information (userProfile) is used for storing the user information obtained by the current application, such as personal information or social relationship information of the user, such as age, sex, hobby and the like.

The step of inheriting by a class having virtual desktop properties comprises:

a method for inheriting a corresponding window interface by a class having virtual desktop properties, the inherited method comprising:

the application display method comprises the steps that an application identification icon (showAppIcon) is displayed and is used for displaying a starting identification of a third-party application on a program interface;

and starting an application program (startApp) for starting the third-party application.

Of course, the following methods may also be included:

refreshing application icons (refreshAppIcon) for refreshing the application icons in the interface;

an adding application program (addAppIcon) for adding a third party application icon in the interface;

a delete application (deleppicon) for deleting the third party application icon in the interface;

acquiring application program information (retrieveAppInfo) for acquiring information of a third-party application;

and setting an interface background picture (setbackgroudpicture) for setting the background picture of the interface.

The above listed classes and their attributes and methods are described for exemplary purposes only and do not limit the present invention. Compared with the mode of fixedly integrating other third-party applications in the application program in the prior art or installing plug-ins, the embodiment of the invention has great flexibility and configurability. The application program has desktop capability and characteristics, for example, the start identifier of the third-party application can be directly dragged to a certain program interface of the application program, and then the start identifier of the third-party application can be always displayed in the program interface of the application program. The user can click or touch the icon to activate the third-party application directly on the program interface. Therefore, a more convenient and easy-to-use virtual desktop environment is provided for the terminal user in the application program.

Referring to fig. 15, the present invention further provides an embodiment of an operating method of an application program, where the method includes:

step 1101: displaying a program interface with desktop characteristics of the agent application and a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with the current front-end application program;

referring to fig. 16, the program interface of the agent application is displayed on the screen as with other application programs, such as the left side of the figure as an agent toolbar for document editing XXX; and in the program interface, starting identifications 1-4 of the third-party application associated with the front-end application program are also displayed, for example, displayed on the left side of the screen. The front-most application, shown on the right in the figure as document edit-XXX, is an application that the user can directly manipulate, typically represented as an application whose program interface is at the front-most in the screen. The name of the front-most application, e.g., "document edit-XXX", may be displayed above and to the left of the agent toolbar, and the launch identifier of the associated third-party application may be displayed below. Such as translation, picture processing, etc. In addition, the agent application can also execute the correlation characteristic of the statistical application, and if the agent application is recorded and counted, and the frequency of the times of the simultaneous use of the application A and the application B exceeds a preset threshold value, the starting identifier of the application B is displayed on the agent toolbar when the frontmost application program is the application A. Therefore, the agent can be more personalized, and different recommended third-party application programs can be presented for different users due to different use habits. If the agent statistics shows that the user generally starts the music playing application when using the browser to surf the internet, the agent can display the start icon of the music playing application on the toolbar if the current music playing application is not started when the application program at the front end is the browser.

Step 1102: and after detecting that the starting identifier of the third-party application is clicked, starting the third-party application.

And after detecting that the starting identifier of the third-party application is clicked in a program interface with desktop characteristics of the agent application, starting the third-party application.

The embodiment is different from a mode of modifying the application program to increase the characteristics of the virtual desktop, provides a scheme of realizing virtual desktop of the application program through the proxy, and also has the technical effects of enabling the program to be started more conveniently and enabling the program to be used more humanized. Meanwhile, the application program does not need to be changed, and the cost is greatly reduced. The agent may be represented by a separate toolbar, or may be represented by other windows, which are not limited herein.

Referring to fig. 17, another embodiment of the operation method of the application program of the present invention includes:

step 1201: displaying a program interface with desktop characteristics of the agent application and a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with the current front-end application program;

step 1202: acquiring program information of a current front-end application program;

after acquiring program information of a current front-end application program, acquiring relevant application context information and third-party application information of the current front-end application program according to the program information;

step 1203: displaying the program information of the current most front-end application program in the program interface of the agent application;

step 1204: after detecting that the starting identifier of the third-party application is clicked, starting the third-party application;

step 1205: and transmitting the related application context information to a third-party application.

In the embodiment, the method also has the technical effects of enabling the program to be started more conveniently and enabling the program to be used more humanized. Meanwhile, a function of transmitting context information of related applications is provided, so that the third-party application is more convenient and faster to use.

Referring to fig. 18, another embodiment of the operation method of the application program of the present invention includes:

step 1301: displaying a program interface with desktop characteristics of the agent application and a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with the current front-end application program;

step 1302: acquiring program information of a current front-end application program;

and obtaining the program information of the current front-most application program through a communication mechanism between the current front-most application program and the current front-most application program, or obtaining the program information of the current front-most application program through searching application information installed in a system by self.

Step 1303: after acquiring program information of a current front-end application program, acquiring relevant application context information and third-party application information of the current front-end application program according to the program information;

step 1304: judging whether the current front-end application program changes according to the acquired program information of the current front-end application program;

step 1305: if the change occurs, the displayed starting identifier of the third-party application is replaced by the starting identifier of the third-party application associated with the changed current front-end application program in the program interface of the proxy application;

step 1306: and after detecting that the starting identifier of the third-party application is clicked, starting the third-party application.

In the embodiment, the method also has the technical effects of enabling the program to be started more conveniently and enabling the program to be used more humanized. Meanwhile, the agent application can change the display of the starting identifier of the third-party application along with the change of the current front-end application program, so that the program interface of the agent application always displays the starting identifier of the third-party application associated with the current front-end application program.

Referring to fig. 19, in accordance with the spirit of the present invention, there is further provided an information processing apparatus, comprising:

a program interface display unit 11 for displaying a program interface of an application program having desktop characteristics; the program interface has desktop characteristics and the capability of directly starting other third-party applications on the program interface;

a start identifier display unit 12, configured to display a start identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program; after the application program is started, the program interface of the application program is displayed, and meanwhile, the starting identifier of the third-party application associated with the application program is immediately displayed, or the starting identifier of the third-party application associated with the application program is displayed under a preset condition;

and the third-party application starting unit 13 is configured to start the third-party application after detecting that the start identifier of the third-party application is clicked. Specifically, in the running process of the application program, if a user clicks a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program, the third-party application is directly started, and the user does not need to leave a program interface of the current application program and switch to a system desktop.

The embodiment has the technical effects of more convenient program starting and more humanized program use.

In another embodiment, the start identifier display unit is specifically configured to display a start identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program in a program interface of the application program. Of course, it is also possible to display the start identifier of the third-party application associated with the application program outside the program interface of the application program.

Referring to fig. 20, another embodiment of the information processing apparatus according to the present invention is different from the first embodiment in that it includes:

a first detection unit 14 for detecting whether a predetermined condition is triggered;

the starting identifier hiding unit 15 is configured to hide a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program in a program interface of the application program before the predetermined condition is detected to be triggered;

the program closing unit 16 is used for closing the other application program, the program interface of the other application program and the starting identifier of the third-party application;

a program starting unit 17, configured to start another application program after the another application program and the program interface thereof, and the start identifier of the third-party application are closed;

the starting identifier display unit 12 is specifically configured to display, after detecting that the predetermined condition is triggered, a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program in a program interface of the application program; or

The start identifier display unit 12 is specifically configured to display a start identifier of a third-party application associated with another application program in a program interface of the application program serving as a proxy application after the another application program is started.

In another embodiment, the program interface display unit 11 is specifically configured to display a control window of an application program, which has a virtual desktop property; in this case, the launch identifier display unit 12 is specifically configured to display a launch identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program in the control window.

The embodiment provides various types of application programs with program interfaces having virtual desktop characteristics, and also provides a function of hiding the starting identifier of the third-party application.

Referring to fig. 21, another embodiment of the information processing apparatus according to the present invention is different from the first embodiment in that it includes:

the second detection unit 18 is configured to detect whether an operation instruction of another third-party application is added to the program interface of the application program;

the starting identifier adding unit 19 is configured to, when an instruction is detected, add and display a starting identifier of another third-party application in a program interface of an application program according to the instruction;

the program information adding unit 20 is configured to, when the instruction is detected, add a start identifier of another third-party application and information thereof to a third-party application linked list stored in the application program according to the instruction;

a context configuration unit 21, configured to add relevant context information configuration when the instruction is detected;

a program information acquiring unit 22, configured to acquire program information of the application program when the instruction is detected, and store the program information in the application configuration data; the third-party application starting unit 13 is specifically configured to start another third-party application according to the start identifier of the another third-party application and the information thereof;

the context transferring unit 23 is configured to, after another third-party application is started, transfer the relevant application context information between the application program and another third-party application according to the relevant context information configuration stored in the application configuration data.

The embodiment provides a function of adding a start identifier of a third-party application, and also provides a function of configuring and transmitting relevant context information.

Referring to fig. 22, another embodiment of the information processing apparatus according to the present invention is different from the first embodiment in that it includes:

a third detecting unit 24, configured to detect whether there is an operation instruction to delete another third-party application from the program interface of the application program;

and the start identifier deleting unit 25 is configured to delete the start identifier of another third-party application in the program interface of the application program according to the instruction detected by the third detecting unit 24, and delete the information of the start identifier.

Referring to fig. 23, another embodiment of the information processing apparatus according to the present invention is different from the first embodiment in that it includes:

a user information acquisition unit 26 for acquiring user information before displaying a start identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program;

a context information receiving unit 27 configured to receive related context information transmitted by an application program before displaying a start identifier of a third party application associated with the application program;

a starting identifier determining unit 28, configured to determine a starting identifier of a third-party application that can be displayed by the application program according to the relevant context information and the user information; the starting identifier display unit 12 is specifically configured to control the associated application program to display the starting identifier of the displayable third party application according to the starting identifier of the displayable third party application;

and the third-party application installation unit 29 is configured to install the third-party application after detecting that the start identifier of the third-party application is clicked, and enable the third-party application starting unit 13 to start the third-party application after the installation is completed.

The embodiment provides a function of controlling the display of the start identifier of the third-party application, and only the corresponding user can display the start identifier; and additionally provides program installation functionality.

Referring to fig. 24, according to the spirit of the present invention, there is further provided an embodiment of an apparatus for generating a program interface in an application, the apparatus including:

an application starting unit 30, configured to start an application after receiving an instruction to start the application;

a program interface display unit 31, configured to display a program interface with desktop characteristics of the application program when the application program is started;

and the starting identifier display unit 32 is used for displaying the starting identifier of the third-party application associated with the application program when the application program is started.

The present embodiment, as mentioned above, also has the technical effects of making the program start more convenient and the program use more humanized.

The starting identifier display unit is specifically configured to display a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with an application program in a program interface of the application program, and may also be configured to display a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with another application program in a program interface of the application program serving as a proxy application.

The program interface display unit is specifically used for displaying a control window with virtual desktop characteristics of an application program; in this case, the launch identifier display unit is specifically configured to display, in the control window, a launch identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program.

Referring to fig. 25, in accordance with the spirit of the present invention, there is further provided an embodiment of a program starting apparatus, the apparatus comprising:

a click action detection unit 33, configured to detect whether there is a click action in a program interface of the application program with the desktop characteristic;

a third-party application determining unit 34, configured to determine, according to the click, a start identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program in the program interface;

and a third-party application starting unit 35, configured to start the third-party application corresponding to the determined starting identifier of the third-party application.

Referring to fig. 26, in accordance with the spirit of the present invention, there is further provided an embodiment of a program generating apparatus, including:

a function module creation unit 36 for creating an application function module;

an interface module creation unit 37 for creating at least one interface module for displaying the processing content of the function module;

The application program manufactured by the embodiment of the program generating device has the technical effects of more convenient program starting and more humanized program use.

Referring to fig. 27, in accordance with the spirit of the present invention, there is further provided an information processing apparatus, comprising:

a program interface display unit 38 for displaying a program interface of the agent application having desktop characteristics;

a start identifier display unit 39 configured to display a start identifier of a third-party application associated with the current frontmost application;

and the third-party application starting unit 40 is configured to start the third-party application after detecting that the start identifier of the third-party application is clicked.

The program interface of the agent application is displayed on a screen like other application programs, and the starting identifier of the third-party application associated with the front-end application program is also displayed in the program interface of the agent application. The front-end application is an application that a user can directly operate, and is generally represented as an application whose program interface is at the front end in a screen.

The embodiment adopts a proxy application mode, and has the technical effects of enabling the program to be started more conveniently and enabling the program to be used more humanized.

Referring to fig. 28, another embodiment of the information processing apparatus of the present invention is different from the foregoing embodiments in that it includes:

the program information display unit is used for acquiring the program information of the current front-end application program after displaying the program interface with desktop characteristics of the agent application, and displaying the program information of the current front-end application program in the program interface of the agent application;

the context information acquisition unit is used for acquiring relevant application context information of the current front-end application program according to the program information;

the application information acquisition unit is used for acquiring third-party application information according to the program information;

the context transferring unit is used for transferring the related application context information to the third-party application after the third-party application is started;

the program switching judging unit is used for judging whether the current front-end application program changes according to the acquired program information of the current front-end application program;

and the identification display changing unit is used for changing the displayed starting identification of the third-party application into the starting identification of the third-party application associated with the changed current front-end application program in the program interface of the proxy application when the change occurs.

The embodiment provides a function of displaying program information in a program interface with desktop characteristics of the agent application, and also provides a function of transferring context information of related applications and a function of how to refresh the agent application program interface after the current front-end application program is switched.

It is to be understood that many more embodiments are possible in light of the above teachings; the above embodiments, steps and units can be reasonably combined with each other to obtain a new embodiment; the above units may be combined, changed in membership, split, combined arbitrarily on the premise of achieving the common purpose, and the embodiment of the present invention is not limited.

It will be further understood by those skilled in the art that all or part of the steps of the above method embodiments may be implemented by hardware instructions related to a program, where the program may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium, and when executed, the program includes the steps of any of the above method embodiments, such as the following steps: displaying a program interface with desktop characteristics of an application program and a starting identifier of a third-party application associated with the application program; and after detecting that the starting identifier of the third-party application is clicked, starting the third-party application. The storage medium can be: ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, solid state disk, memory card, U disk or optical disk, etc.

The above description is only an embodiment of the present invention, and not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and all modifications of equivalent structures and equivalent processes performed by the present specification and drawings, or directly or indirectly applied to other related technical fields, are included in the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. An operating method of an application APP program, comprising:

after an application APP program is started, displaying a program interface of the application APP program and application APP icons of other application APPs related to the application APP program in the program interface, wherein the other application APPs related to the application APP program are application APPs already installed on a smart phone or a tablet computer;

after displaying application APP icons of other applications associated with the application APP program in the program interface, detecting an operation instruction for adding an application APP icon of another other application APP to the displayed program interface of the application APP program, and adding and displaying the application APP icon of another other application APP in the displayed program interface of the application APP program according to the operation instruction.

2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that an operating instruction to delete said other application APP in the program interface of said application APP program is detected;

and deleting the application APP icon of the other application APP in the displayed program interface of the application APP program according to the operation instruction for deleting the other application APP.

3. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that said step of displaying application APP icons of other application APPs associated with said application APP program comprises:

hiding application APP icons of other application APPs related to the application APP program in a program interface of the application APP program before the preset condition is detected to be triggered, and displaying the application APP icons of the other application APPs related to the application APP program in the program interface of the application APP program after the preset condition is detected to be triggered.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the detecting that a predetermined condition is triggered comprises: and detecting that a preset number of clicks appear in a program interface of the application APP program.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the detecting that a predetermined condition is triggered comprises: detecting that a preset number of touch points in a program interface of the application APP program are touched and pressed simultaneously for more than preset time.

6. Method according to claim 4 or 5, characterized in that said step of displaying the APP icons of other APPs associated with said APP program comprises:

and after the preset condition is detected to be triggered, activating and displaying a preset virtual desktop component in an application APP program, and displaying application APP icons of other applications in the virtual desktop component.

7. The method according to any one of claims 1 or 2, wherein the step of displaying the program interface of the application APP program and the application APP icons of other applications APP associated with the application APP program in the program interface comprises:

the method comprises the steps of displaying a control window with virtual desktop properties of an application APP program, and displaying application APP icons of other application APPs related to the application APP program in the control window.

8. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that said step of displaying application APP icons of other application APPs associated with said application APP program comprises:

and displaying application APP icons of other application APPs related to the application APP program together with the program interface in the program interface of the application APP program.

9. Method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that said other application APP is started after detecting that its application APP icon is clicked.

10. Method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that said step of displaying application APP icons of other application APPs associated with said application APP program comprises:

displaying application APP icons of a predetermined number of other applications APP associated with the application APP program that are most frequently used.

11. Method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that said step of displaying application APP icons of other application APPs associated with said application APP program comprises:

displaying application APP icons of other applications APP associated with the application APP program, the usage frequency of which is above a predetermined threshold, and clearing application APP icons of other applications APP, the usage frequency of which is at or below the predetermined threshold.

12. Method according to any one of claims 1 or 2, characterized in that said step of displaying application APP icons of other application APPs associated with said application APP program comprises:

displaying application APP icons of other application APPs related to the application APP program at the side, top or bottom of a program interface of the application APP program.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the step of displaying application APP icons of other applications APP associated with the application APP program at the side, top or bottom of the program interface of the application APP program comprises:

displaying application APP icons of other applications APP associated with the application APP program on a menu bar or a tool bar at the side, top or bottom of a program interface of the application APP program.

14. An information processing apparatus characterized by comprising:

the application program starting unit is used for starting an application APP program;

the program interface display unit is used for displaying a program interface of the application APP;

the starting identifier display unit is used for displaying application APP icons of other application APPs related to the application APP program in the program interface, wherein the other application APPs related to the application APP program are application APPs already installed in a smart phone or a tablet computer;

a second detecting unit, configured to detect, after application APP icons of other application APPs associated with the application APP program in the program interface are displayed, an operation instruction for adding another other application APP to the displayed program interface of the application APP program;

and the starting identifier adding unit is used for adding and displaying an application APP icon of another other application APP in the displayed program interface of the application APP program according to the operation instruction.

15. The apparatus according to claim 14, further comprising a third detecting unit and a start identifier deleting unit, where the third detecting unit is configured to detect an operation instruction for deleting another other application APP in the program interface of the application APP program; the starting identifier deleting unit is used for deleting the application APP icon of the other application APP in the displayed program interface of the application APP program according to the operation instruction for deleting the other application APP.

16. The apparatus according to claim 14 or 15, characterized in that it comprises:

a first detection unit for detecting whether a predetermined condition is triggered;

the starting identifier hiding unit is used for hiding application APP icons of other application APPs related to the application APP program in a program interface of the application APP program before the preset condition is detected to be triggered;

the starting identifier display unit is specifically configured to display, after detecting that the predetermined condition is triggered, an APP icon of another APP associated with the APP program in a program interface of the APP program.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the detection that a predetermined condition is triggered comprises: and detecting that a preset number of clicks appear in a program interface of the application APP program.

18. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the detection that a predetermined condition is triggered comprises: detecting that a preset number of touch points in a program interface of the application APP program are touched and pressed simultaneously for more than preset time.

19. The apparatus according to claim 14 or 15, wherein said displaying in the program interface application APP icons of other applications APPs associated with the application APP program comprises:

and after the preset condition is detected to be triggered, activating and displaying a preset virtual desktop component in the application APP program, and displaying application APP icons of other application APPs in the virtual desktop component.

20. The apparatus according to claim 14 or 15, wherein the program interface display unit is specifically configured to display a control window of the application APP program with virtual desktop properties, and the start identifier display unit is specifically configured to display the application APP icons of other application APPs associated with the application APP program in the control window.

21. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein said displaying in the program interface application APP icons of other applications APPs associated with the application APP program comprises:

displaying, in a program interface of the application APP program, application APP icons of other applications APP associated with the application APP program together with the program interface.

22. The apparatus according to claim 14 or 15, further comprising another application starting unit, configured to start the other application APP after detecting that an APP icon of the other application APP is clicked.

23. The apparatus according to claim 14 or 15, wherein said displaying APP icons of other APPs APP associated with said APP program comprises:

24. The apparatus according to claim 14 or 15, wherein said displaying APP icons of other APPs APP associated with said APP program comprises:

displaying application APP icons of other applications APP associated with the application APP program, the usage frequency of which is above a predetermined threshold, and clearing application APP icons of other applications, the usage frequency of which is at or below the predetermined threshold.

25. Apparatus according to claim 14 or 15, wherein said step of displaying application APP icons of other applications APPs associated with said application APP program comprises:

26. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the step of displaying APP icons of other APPs associated with the APP program at the side, top or bottom of the program interface of the APP program comprises:

27. A computer-readable storage medium having stored therein instructions which, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1-13.