CN108021305B

CN108021305B - Application association starting method and device and mobile terminal

Info

Publication number: CN108021305B
Application number: CN201711305288.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 郭广饶
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2017-12-11
Filing date: 2017-12-11
Publication date: 2020-05-26
Anticipated expiration: 2037-12-11
Also published as: CN108021305A; WO2019114584A1

Abstract

The embodiment of the application discloses a method and a device for starting application association and a mobile terminal, wherein the method for starting the application association comprises the following steps: displaying an icon of a second application having an association relation with a first application when a first preset operation on the icon of the first application is detected; and when a second preset operation on the icon of the second application is detected, starting the second application. According to the embodiment of the application, the second application related to the first application can be started through the first application, so that a user does not need to search the icon of the second application from numerous application icons, the time for the user to search the icon of the application is shortened, and the use efficiency of the application is improved.

Description

Application association starting method and device and mobile terminal

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of computer technologies, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for starting application association, and a mobile terminal.

Background

With the rapid development of mobile internet, terminal devices, especially mobile terminals such as smart phones, have been rapidly popularized, and mobile terminals have become essential items for people to work and live.

With the continuous development of mobile terminals such as mobile phones, in order to provide better services to users, service providers usually develop corresponding applications to be provided for users, so that the number of applications of current mobile terminals is greatly increased, and meanwhile, with the improvement of hardware configuration of mobile terminals, more and more applications are installed on the mobile terminals. However, a large number of applications may be installed in the mobile terminal, and corresponding application icons are left on the desktop of the mobile terminal, and due to the limited display interface of the mobile terminal, the application icons usually occupy multiple screens of the mobile terminal, and each screen has a certain number of application icons.

However, when a user needs to use an application, the application needs to be searched from multiple screens, if the application terminal includes multiple pages for placing the application icon, the user will spend more time in searching the application icon, and the searching process will be difficult, and even in some cases, the user may give up searching the application, thereby resulting in poor user experience.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a method and a device for starting application association and a mobile terminal, so as to solve the problem that application icons are difficult to search in the prior art.

In order to solve the above technical problem, the embodiment of the present application is implemented as follows:

in a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a method for application association starting, where the method includes:

displaying an icon of a second application having an association relation with a first application when a first preset operation on the icon of the first application is detected;

and when a second preset operation on the icon of the second application is detected, starting the second application.

Optionally, the method further comprises:

acquiring a preset opening instruction of an application correlation function;

starting the application correlation function according to the starting instruction;

detecting a first predetermined operation on an icon of a first application, comprising:

detecting a first predetermined operation on an icon of a first application in a case where the application association function is turned on.

Optionally, when a first predetermined operation on an icon of a first application is detected, before displaying an icon of a second application having an association relationship with the first application, the method further includes:

acquiring information of the second application;

and establishing an incidence relation between the second application and the first application according to the information of the second application.

Optionally, the obtaining information of the second application includes:

displaying an application selection interface when a third preset operation on the icon of the first application is detected;

receiving touch input of a user on the application selection interface;

and responding to the touch input, and acquiring the information of the second application.

Optionally, the start instruction of the application-related function is generated by any one of the following methods: the input fingerprint, voice print or face data are respectively preset fingerprint, voice print or face data and appointed operation on a preset induction area, wherein the preset induction area comprises an infrared induction area, a touch induction area, a temperature induction area and a pressure induction area; or,

and receiving a preset opening instruction of the application correlation function sent by the wearable device.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an apparatus for application association starting, where the apparatus includes:

the display module is used for displaying an icon of a second application in an associated relationship with a first application when a first preset operation on the icon of the first application is detected;

and the starting module is used for starting the second application when a second preset operation on the icon of the second application is detected.

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises:

the instruction acquisition module is used for acquiring a preset opening instruction of the application correlation function;

the application association starting module is used for starting the application association function according to the starting instruction;

the detection module is used for detecting a first preset operation on the icon of the first application under the condition that the application related function is started.

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises:

the related application acquisition module is used for acquiring the information of the second application;

and the incidence relation establishing module is used for establishing the incidence relation between the second application and the first application according to the information of the second application.

Optionally, the associated application obtaining module includes:

the display unit is used for displaying an application selection interface when a third preset operation on the icon of the first application is detected;

the receiving unit is used for receiving touch input of a user on the application selection interface;

and the response unit is used for responding to the touch input and acquiring the information of the second application.

the instruction acquisition module is used for receiving a preset opening instruction of the application correlation function sent by the wearable device.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a mobile terminal, including a processor, a memory, and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, where the computer program, when executed by the processor, implements the steps of the method for application association startup provided in the first aspect.

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and when executed by a processor, the computer program implements the steps of the method for application-associated startup provided in the first aspect.

According to the technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the application, the icon of the second application related to the first application is obtained and displayed when the first preset operation on the icon of the first application is detected, and then the second application is started when the second preset operation on the icon of the second application is detected, so that the user can start the second application related to the first application through the first application, the user does not need to search the icon of the second application from numerous application icons, the time for the user to search the icon of the application is shortened, and the application use efficiency is improved.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present application or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly introduced below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments described in the present application, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without any creative effort.

Fig. 1 is a schematic flowchart illustrating an embodiment of a method for application association initiation according to the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic flow chart diagram illustrating an embodiment of a method for associating applications of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of an association setup page according to the present application;

FIG. 4 is a schematic interface diagram of an application for adding a second application;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating another embodiment of a method for application-dependent launching according to the present application;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a pressure sensing area on a terminal device according to the present application;

FIG. 7A is a schematic illustration of an interface for adding a second application according to another embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7B is a schematic illustration of an interface for adding a second application according to the present application;

FIG. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of an apparatus for application-dependent launching according to the present application;

fig. 9 is a schematic hardware structure diagram of an embodiment of a mobile terminal according to the present application.

Detailed Description

The embodiment of the application provides a method and a device for starting application association and a mobile terminal.

In order to make those skilled in the art better understand the technical solutions in the present application, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

Example one

As shown in fig. 1, an execution main body of the method may be a terminal device, where the terminal device may be a device such as a personal computer, or may also be a mobile terminal device such as a mobile phone and a tablet computer, and the terminal device may be a terminal device used by a user. The method can start one or more applications related to the first application through the pre-established association relationship, and the like. The method may specifically comprise the steps of:

in step S102, when a first predetermined operation on an icon of a first application is detected, an icon of a second application having an association relationship with the first application is displayed.

The first application may be any application, such as any instant messaging application or any shopping application. The second application may also be any application, and the first application and the second application are different applications, for example, the first application and the second application are different instant messaging applications, or the first application and the second application are different shopping applications, or the first application and the second application are different types of applications, for example, the first application is an instant messaging application, and the second application is a shopping application. The second application may include one application or may include a plurality of applications. The first predetermined operation may be set according to an actual situation, specifically, for example, the first predetermined operation is a multiple continuous click operation such as a double-click operation, a three-time continuous click operation, or may also be a press operation, or may also be a designated gesture operation, and the like, which is not limited in this embodiment of the application. The icon of the first application may be a shortcut icon of the first application, and the icon of the second application may be a shortcut icon of the second application.

In implementation, with the continuous development of terminal technology, terminal devices, especially mobile terminals (such as mobile phones or tablet computers) have become indispensable tools in daily life and work of people. In order to provide better service for users, service providers usually develop corresponding applications for users, so that the number of applications of current mobile terminals is greatly increased, and at the same time, as the hardware configuration of mobile terminals is improved, more and more applications are installed on the mobile terminals. However, a large number of applications may be installed in the mobile terminal, and corresponding icons are left on the desktop of the mobile terminal (in order to avoid that descriptions similar to the icons may appear later and to simplify the descriptions, the icons of the subsequent applications are replaced by application icons), and due to the limited display interface of the mobile terminal, the application icons usually occupy multiple screens of the mobile terminal, and a certain number of application icons are placed in each screen. When a user needs to use a certain application, the application needs to be searched from a plurality of screens, if the application terminal includes a plurality of pages for placing the application icon, the user spends more time in the process of searching the application icon, the searching process is difficult, and even under certain conditions, the user may give up searching the application, thereby causing poor user experience. Therefore, the application association starting method provided in the embodiments of the present application may establish an association relationship between some applications and one or more applications, so that a user may find one or more applications associated with the application as long as the user finds one of the applications in the established association relationship, and may further start the application or any application associated with the application.

In practical application, a user can sort application icons of application programs installed in terminal equipment according to actual needs of the user, and since the number of application icons on a desktop of the terminal equipment is often large, in order to reduce search time of the user, an association relationship can be established between some application programs, wherein the establishment of the association relationship can be performed based on the use frequency of the application programs, for example, in order to improve user experience, an association relationship can be established between a first application and a second application, wherein the first application can be an application with a high use frequency of the user, the second application can be an application with a low use frequency of the user, and the like. The established association relationship can be correspondingly stored in the terminal equipment in a table mode. The association relationship may be as shown in Table 1

TABLE 1

First application	Second application
		Applications A	Application	1, application 2, and application 3
Application B	Application 10, application 20
		Applications C	Application 30

In addition, the terminal device may further store a trigger setting page for calling an application having a relationship with a certain application, and the user may set or select an operation in the setting page as an operation for calling the application having the relationship with the certain application, that is, a first predetermined operation.

After the association relationship is stored in the terminal device, the terminal device may detect, in real time, an operation performed by the user on the application icon of the first application, and if the terminal device detects that the user clicks the application icon of the first application, it may be determined that the user needs to start the first application, and at this time, the terminal device may start the first application. If the terminal device detects that the user performs a dragging operation or a long-time pressing operation on the application icon of the first application, it may be determined that the user needs to uninstall the first application or needs to perform position adjustment on the application icon of the first application, and the like. If the terminal device detects that the operation performed by the user on the application icon of the first application is an operation preset by the user (i.e., a first predetermined operation), it may be determined that the user needs to call out a second application having an association relationship with the first application, at this time, the terminal device may search for relevant information of the second application corresponding to the first application from a pre-stored association relationship shown in table 1, for example, as shown in table 1, if the first application is application B, the second application having an association relationship with application B may be obtained as the application 10 and the application 20 through the association relationship in table 1. Then, the terminal device may obtain an application icon of the second application based on the obtained related information of the second application, may display the application icon of the second application in a display interface of the terminal device, specifically, around the application icon of the first application, or pop up a new window to display the application icon of the second application.

In step S104, when a second predetermined operation on an icon of the second application is detected, the second application is launched.

The second predetermined operation may be an operation preset by the user, or may be a default operation of an operating system of the terminal device, and the first predetermined operation may be the same as or different from the second predetermined operation.

In an implementation, after the terminal device displays each application icon of the second application at a predetermined position around the application icon of the first application, the terminal device may detect, in real time, an operation performed by the user on the application icon of the second application, and if it is detected that the user performs a second predetermined operation (for example, a click operation) on one of the application icons in the second application, it may be determined that the user needs to start an application program corresponding to the application icon, at this time, the terminal device may start the application program, for example, based on the example of step S102, the first application is application B, the second application is application 10 and application 20, and if the terminal device detects that the user performs the second predetermined operation on the application icon of application 20, the terminal device may start application 20. If the terminal device detects that the user performs dragging operation or long-time pressing operation on one application icon in the second application, it can be determined that the user needs to uninstall the application program corresponding to the application icon or needs to perform position adjustment on the application icon, and the like.

The embodiment of the application association starting method includes the steps of obtaining and displaying an icon of a second application which is related to a first application when a first preset operation is detected to be executed on the icon of the first application, and starting the second application when a second preset operation on the icon of the second application is detected, so that a user can start the second application which is related to the user through the first application, the user does not need to search the icon of the second application from numerous application icons, the time of searching the icon of the application by the user is shortened, and the use efficiency of the application is improved.

In order to implement the association starting of the application, the association relationship between different applications may be pre-established, and in actual applications, the implementation manner of establishing the association relationship may be various, and an optional processing manner is provided below, which may specifically refer to the related content in the following second embodiment.

Example two

As shown in fig. 2, an execution main body of the method may be a terminal device, where the terminal device may be a device such as a personal computer, or may also be a mobile terminal device such as a mobile phone and a tablet computer, and the terminal device may be a terminal device used by a user. The method can establish association relations and the like for different applications. The method may specifically comprise the steps of:

in step S202, information of the second application to be associated is acquired.

The information of the second application may include an identifier, an icon, and the like of the second application, where the identifier may include a name, a number, a code, and the like of the second application.

In implementation, the process of acquiring the information of the second application may be triggered and implemented in various ways, and an optional implementation manner is provided in this application embodiment, which may specifically include the following: when the association instruction for the first application is acquired, information of the second application to be associated is acquired, specifically, the association instruction may be an instruction for establishing an association relationship between different applications, and the association instruction may be acquired in various ways, for example, the association instruction may be sent to a terminal device of a user by other control devices, or the terminal device is triggered to generate the association instruction by a preset operation, and the like. In this embodiment, a detailed description will be given by taking an example in which the terminal device is triggered to generate the association command through a preset operation. The terminal equipment can be provided with application associated setting options, when a user needs the terminal equipment to have the function of associating different applications, a setting page of the terminal equipment can be opened, the setting options can be searched in the setting page, the user can click the setting options, and the terminal equipment can open an application associated association setting page.

As shown in fig. 3, the association setting page may include a switch for turning on or off the application association, an option or setting key and an ok key for triggering operations associated with different applications, a cancel key, and the like. If the user confirms that the function related to different applications in the terminal equipment needs to be started, the switch in the related setting page can be converted into the starting state from the application related closing state, and at the moment, the options or the setting keys for triggering the related operations of the different applications are also converted into the effective state from the original invalid state. In order to simplify the user operation, a plurality of selectable items may be set in the option for triggering operations associated with different applications, for example, a double-click operation, a press operation, a three-time or more-than-three-time continuous click operation, and the like, and the user may select one operation from the plurality of selectable items as an operation for triggering different applications, for example, when the user clicks a selectable item corresponding to the double-click operation, the user may trigger processing for associating the application by double-clicking one application icon. In addition, a user can also input a certain operation to trigger the processing of associating a certain application by self-defining through the setting key, in this case, the user can click the setting key, the terminal device can provide a page for inputting a corresponding operation, and start a relevant sensor to detect and record the operation input by the user, for example, the user draws a closed loop around the application needing to be associated, which indicates that the user needs to perform association setting on the application in the loop, and the like. After the setting is completed, the user can click a determination key in the association setting page, the terminal equipment acquires the relevant data selected and set by the user in the association setting page, stores the data and simultaneously starts the functions of associating different applications in the terminal equipment.

In order to reduce the time for the user to search the application icon and start the application accordingly, and considering that the application with higher frequency of use is the application frequently used by the user, the user usually remembers the location of the application icon, so the user can associate one or more applications with lower frequency of use with the application with higher frequency of use, so the user can call the application associated with the application as long as the user finds the application with higher frequency of use, and reduce the search time of the user, specifically, when the user needs to establish an association relationship between one or more applications with lower frequency of use (i.e. the second application) and an application with higher frequency of use (i.e. the first application), the user can perform corresponding operations on the first application according to the operations associated with different applications triggered and selected or set in the association setting page, taking the operations as double-click as an example, the user can double-click the application icon of the first application, and when the terminal device detects that the user performs double-click operation on the application icon, the terminal device can generate the association instruction of the first application, so that the terminal device can acquire the association instruction of the first application. At this time, as shown in fig. 4, the terminal device may display an input or application selection interface of the application to be associated at a predetermined position around the application icon of the first application, where the input or application selection interface may include a search input box, a search result display page, and the like, or the input or application selection interface provides application icons of all or part of applications currently installed in the terminal device for selection by the user. The user can search or select the second application needing to establish the association relationship through the input or application selection interface, after the user selects and completes the second application, the user can click a determination key provided in the input or application selection interface, the terminal device can acquire the information of the second application selected by the user, and therefore the terminal device can acquire the information of the second application to be associated, which is provided by the user.

In step S204, an association relationship between the second application and the first application is established according to the information of the second application.

In implementation, the terminal device may establish an association relationship between the first application and the second application according to the obtained information of the first application corresponding to the association instruction and the second application to be associated provided by the user, and may store the association relationship in the terminal device, specifically, the association relationship may be stored in a form of a table if the application identifier of the first application and the application identifier of the second application are stored correspondingly, and if the application identifier of the first application is application a, the second application includes multiple applications, and the corresponding application identifiers thereof are application B, application C, and application D, respectively, the association relationship stored in the terminal device may be as shown in table 2 below.

TABLE 2

It should be noted that the association relationship shown in table 2 is to set all association relationships in one table, so that the terminal device can more quickly find the second application associated with the first application. In practical application, the terminal device may further establish an independent table for each association relationship to store, and the specific processing manner may be set according to an actual situation, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

After the association relationship between the first application and the second application is established in the above manner, the first application is associated with the second application, when a user needs to use the second application, the application icon of the second application does not need to be searched from a plurality of application icons, the second application can be started only by searching the application icon of the first application and calling the second application related to the first application in a preset manner, and therefore convenience is provided for the user to use the related application.

Based on the processing in step S202 and step S204, an association relationship between the second application and the first application is obtained, and association starting of the application may be further realized based on the obtained association relationship, which may specifically refer to relevant contents of step S102 and step S104 in the first embodiment, and is not described herein again.

The embodiment of the application association method provides an application association method, which is characterized in that an association relationship between a second application and a first application is further established through acquired information of the second application to be associated, so that a terminal device acquires and displays an icon of the second application which is associated with the first application when detecting that a first predetermined operation is performed on the icon of the first application subsequently, and then starts the second application when detecting that a second predetermined operation is performed on the icon of the second application.

EXAMPLE III

As shown in fig. 5, an execution main body of the method may be a terminal device, where the terminal device may be a device such as a personal computer, or may also be a mobile terminal device such as a mobile phone and a tablet computer, and the terminal device may be a terminal device used by a user. The method can establish incidence relation for different applications, and can start one or more applications associated with the first application through the incidence relation established in advance. The method may specifically comprise the steps of:

in step S502, a preset opening instruction of the application related function is obtained.

The application association function may be a mode or function that allows a user to associate one or more applications with other applications. The application association function may be preset in the system setting of the terminal device, and the user may obtain the association setting page through the setting option provided in the system setting to perform corresponding application association setting, which may specifically refer to the relevant content in step S202 and fig. 3 in the above embodiment one, and details are not described here. Through the setting mode, the user can control whether the application association function of the terminal equipment is started or not through the switch in the association setting page. In addition, the opening instruction of the application related function may also be obtained in other manners, and two optional processing manners are provided below, which may be specifically referred to as the following:

the method comprises the steps of receiving a preset opening instruction of an application correlation function sent by the wearable device.

In implementation, wearable devices (such as a bracelet or a smart watch) are currently favored by more and more users, and in order to improve application experience, many device providers set a remote control function for the wearable devices and the terminal devices, that is, a user can remotely control the terminal devices through the wearable devices or remotely control the wearable devices through the terminal devices. Based on this, remote control mechanisms can be respectively arranged in the terminal device and the wearable device, so that the wearable device can remotely control the terminal device to start the application association function, and the terminal device can receive the remote control signal of the wearable device and execute the operation corresponding to the remote control signal. When the user needs to start the application association function of the terminal device, the wearable device and the terminal device may be in communication connection, for example, device pairing may be performed through bluetooth or infrared rays, so as to establish communication connection, and after the pairing is completed, the user may send a start instruction of the application association function to the terminal device through bluetooth or infrared rays through an option provided in the wearable device for starting the application association function of the terminal device.

In a second mode, the application association function of the terminal device may be started in combination with a relevant sensor provided in the terminal device, for example, in combination with an infrared sensor, a fingerprint recognition component, a facial recognition component, a temperature-sensitive sensor, a pressure-sensitive sensor, a touch screen, and the like in the terminal device, the application association function of the terminal device may be started, and accordingly, the start instruction of the application association function may be generated in any one of the following manners: the input fingerprint, voice print or face data is respectively preset fingerprint, voice print or face data and a specified operation on a preset induction area.

The predetermined sensing area may be a sensing area corresponding to the infrared sensing sensor, the temperature sensing sensor, the pressure sensing sensor and the touch screen, and correspondingly, the predetermined sensing area may include an infrared sensing area, a temperature sensing area, a pressure sensing area and a touch sensing area.

In the implementation, taking the pressure-sensitive sensor as an example, for the specific processing procedure of other types of sensing sensors, reference may be made to the relevant contents of the pressure-sensitive sensor, and details are not described herein again. Specifically, the pressure-sensitive sensor may be disposed at a designated position of the terminal device, for example, in combination with a touch screen, so that the touch screen has a pressure-sensitive function, and a user may trigger the terminal device to generate a start instruction of the application-related function by pressing the touch screen.

In addition, in practical application, the pressure-sensitive sensor may be configured in combination with the touch screen, and may also include other configuration manners, for example, a certain area outside the touch screen of the terminal device may be configured as a sensing area corresponding to the pressure-sensitive sensor, as shown in fig. 6, and an area outside the touch screen (i.e., an area near the front camera, such as a dashed area in fig. 6) at the upper left corner of the terminal device is configured as a sensing area corresponding to the pressure-sensitive sensor.

As shown in fig. 6, when the user needs to start the application related function of the terminal device, the user may press a finger on the pressure sensing area, the pressure sensing sensor in the terminal device may detect an operation of the user in the pressure sensing area, and the pressure sensing sensor may determine whether the pressure has reached a pressure threshold preset by the user for switching the application related function. If the pressure reaches the pressure threshold, the terminal device may generate an opening instruction of the application related function, and if the pressure does not reach the pressure threshold, the operation of the user may be omitted.

In step S504, the application association function is started according to the start instruction.

In implementation, after the terminal device receives the start instruction, the application association function in the terminal device may be started, and in a case that the application association function is started, the user may establish an association relationship between a certain application and one or more other applications, and at the same time, the user may start one or more applications associated with the certain application according to the established association relationship. The specific processing procedure can be referred to the relevant contents of step S506 to step S516 described below.

First, the terminal device may acquire a correlation instruction for the first application in a state that the application correlation function is turned on, where a processing manner for acquiring the correlation instruction for the first application may include multiple types, and may be specifically set according to an actual situation, and a selectable processing manner is provided below, which may specifically refer to the content of step S506 below.

In step S506, in a case where the application association function is turned on, when a third predetermined operation on the icon of the first application is detected, an application selection interface is displayed. Wherein the third predetermined operation may be a pressing operation or a multiple continuous clicking operation. The multiple continuous click operations may include a double click operation, three continuous click operations, or five continuous click operations, etc. The third predetermined operation may be the same as the subsequent first predetermined operation, that is, an operation mode of triggering the terminal device to display an icon of an application having an association relationship with a certain application is the same as an operation mode of triggering establishment of an association relationship with a certain application, and the third predetermined operation may also be different from the first predetermined operation.

In implementation, taking the third predetermined operation as a double-click operation as an example, after the terminal device starts the application association function, the operation performed by the user on the application icon may be detected in real time, and if it is detected that the user performs the double-click operation on the application icon of the first application, the terminal device may determine that the user needs to establish an association relationship for the first application.

In addition, for the case that the operation mode of triggering the terminal device to display the icon of the application having the association relationship with the certain application is the same as the operation mode of triggering the establishment of the association relationship with the certain application (that is, the third predetermined operation is the same as the first predetermined operation), the terminal device may further be implemented through a series of operations or instructions in the process of displaying the application selection interface, so as to determine whether the user needs to start the associated application or establish a new association relationship for the application, the specific processing mode may include multiple types, and an optional processing mode is provided below, that is, the terminal device may trigger the processing of displaying the application selection interface through the association option, and the specific processing of step S506 may include the following step one and step two.

Step one, when a third preset operation on the icon of the first application is detected, displaying an association option for providing a second application to be associated with the first application.

The association option may include various implementations, for example, a circle with a plus sign inside may be displayed in a predetermined area around the application icon of the first application, as shown in fig. 4, or as shown in fig. 7A.

In implementation, as shown in fig. 7A, when the user performs a double-click operation on the application icon of the first application, the terminal device may acquire an association option for providing a second application to be associated with the first application (i.e., a circle with a plus sign inside above the application icon of the first application in fig. 7), and display the association option at a predetermined position around the application icon of the first application.

It should be noted that, if the third predetermined operation may be the same as the first predetermined operation and the first application already has other applications associated therewith, when it is detected that the user performs the third predetermined operation on the application icon of the first application, while displaying the association option for providing the second application to be associated with the first application, the application icons of the other applications associated therewith may also be displayed, and at this time, the user may start the corresponding application through the related processing of steps S514 to S518.

And step two, when the selection operation of the associated option is detected, displaying an application selection interface.

In implementation, when the user needs to add another application associated with the first application to the first application, the association option may be clicked, at this time, the terminal device may detect a selection operation of the user on the association option, and then, the terminal device may display an application selection interface.

In step S508, a touch input of the user on the application selection interface is received.

In implementation, after the terminal device displays the application selection interface, a user may search for one or more application icons of the application that need to establish an association relationship with the first application by sliding the application selection interface, then may select the searched application icons in a touch input manner, and after the selection is completed, may click a determination key in the application selection interface, and the terminal device may receive and record a touch input of the user on the application selection interface.

In step S510, information of the second application is acquired in response to the touch input.

In implementation, after receiving the touch input of the user on the application selection interface, the terminal device may determine, through the touch input, a second application that needs to establish an association relationship with the first application, and acquire information of the second application. The terminal device may display the application icon of the second application in a predetermined area around the application icon of the first application, as shown in fig. 7B.

In step S512, an association relationship between the second application and the first application is established according to the information of the second application.

The related processing in step S512 may refer to the related content in step S104 in the first embodiment, and is not described herein again.

In step S514, in a case where the application related function is turned on, a first predetermined operation on an icon of the first application is detected.

In step S516, when a first predetermined operation on an icon of a first application is detected, an icon of a second application having an association relationship with the first application is displayed.

In step S518, when a second predetermined operation on the icon of the second application is detected, the second application is launched.

The relevant processing in steps S514 to S518 may refer to the relevant content in the first embodiment, and is not described herein again.

It should be noted that the second application or other applications related to the first application and the associated options are described in a predetermined area around the application icon displayed in the first application, in practical applications, the second application or other applications and the associated options are not limited to the display position, and different other display positions may also be set, which may be specifically set according to practical situations, and this is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

The embodiment of the application provides a method for starting application association, which comprises the steps of acquiring a second application to be associated when acquiring an association instruction of a first application, and further establishing an association relationship between the second application and the first application, so that the terminal device acquires and displays the icon of the second application having the association relationship with the first application when detecting that the first predetermined operation is performed on the icon of the first application, and then the second application is started when a second preset operation on the icon of the second application is detected, so that the user only needs to associate one or more applications with one application to start the second application associated with the application through the first application, therefore, the user does not need to search the icon of the second application from a plurality of application icons, the time for searching the icon of the application by the user is shortened, and the use efficiency of the application is improved.

Example four

Based on the same idea, the application associated starting method provided in the embodiment of the present application further provides an application associated starting apparatus, as shown in fig. 8.

The device comprises: a display module 801 and a start-up module 802, wherein:

a display module 801, configured to display an icon of a second application having an association relationship with a first application when a first predetermined operation on the icon of the first application is detected;

a starting module 802, configured to start the second application when a second predetermined operation on the icon of the second application is detected.

In an embodiment of the present application, the apparatus further includes:

In an embodiment of the present application, the associated application obtaining module includes:

In this embodiment of the present application, the opening instruction of the application related function is generated by any one of the following manners: the input fingerprint, voice print or face data are respectively preset fingerprint, voice print or face data and appointed operation on a preset induction area, wherein the preset induction area comprises an infrared induction area, a touch induction area, a temperature induction area and a pressure induction area; or,

The apparatus for application association starting provided in this embodiment of the present application can implement each process implemented by the terminal device in the method embodiments of fig. 1 to fig. 7, and is not described here again to avoid repetition.

The embodiment of the application association device provides an association relationship between a second application and a first application through acquired information of the second application to be associated, so that a terminal device acquires and displays an icon of the second application having the association relationship with the first application when detecting that a first predetermined operation is performed on the icon of the first application subsequently, and then starts the second application when detecting that a second predetermined operation is performed on the icon of the second application.

EXAMPLE five

Fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a mobile terminal implementing various embodiments of the present invention.

The mobile terminal 900 includes, but is not limited to: a radio frequency unit 901, a network module 902, an audio output unit 903, an input unit 904, a sensor 905, a display unit 906, a user input unit 907, an interface unit 908, a memory 909, a processor 910, and a power supply 911. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the mobile terminal architecture shown in fig. 9 is not intended to be limiting of mobile terminals, and that a mobile terminal may include more or fewer components than shown, or some components may be combined, or a different arrangement of components. In the embodiment of the present invention, the mobile terminal includes, but is not limited to, a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palm computer, a vehicle-mounted terminal, a wearable device, a pedometer, and the like.

The display unit 906 is configured to display an icon of a second application having an association relationship with a first application when a first predetermined operation on the icon of the first application is detected;

a processor 910 configured to start the second application when a second predetermined operation on an icon of the second application is detected.

In addition, the processor 910 is further configured to obtain a start instruction of a preset application related function; starting the application correlation function according to the starting instruction; detecting a first predetermined operation on an icon of a first application in a case where the application association function is turned on.

In addition, the processor 910 is further configured to obtain information of the second application; and establishing an incidence relation between the second application and the first application according to the information of the second application.

Further, the processor 910 is further configured to display an application selection interface when a third predetermined operation on the icon of the first application is detected; receiving touch input of a user on the application selection interface; and responding to the touch input, and acquiring the information of the second application.

In addition, the opening instruction of the application related function is generated by any one of the following modes: the input fingerprint, voiceprint or face data are respectively preset fingerprint, voiceprint or face data and appointed operation on a preset induction area, wherein the preset induction area comprises an infrared induction area, a touch induction area, a temperature induction area and a pressure induction area.

In addition, the processor 910 is further configured to receive a start instruction of a preset application related function sent by the wearable device.

The embodiment of the application provides a mobile terminal, which further establishes an association relationship between a second application and a first application through acquired information of the second application to be associated, so that a terminal device acquires and displays an icon of the second application having the association relationship with the first application when detecting that a first predetermined operation is performed on the icon of the first application subsequently, and further starts the second application when detecting that a second predetermined operation is performed on the icon of the second application.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the radio frequency unit 901 may be used for receiving and sending signals during a message sending and receiving process or a call process, and specifically, after receiving downlink data from a base station, the downlink data is processed by the processor 910; in addition, the uplink data is transmitted to the base station. Generally, the radio frequency unit 901 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, at least one amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, and the like. In addition, the radio frequency unit 901 can also communicate with a network and other devices through a wireless communication system.

The mobile terminal provides the user with wireless broadband internet access via the network module 902, such as helping the user send and receive e-mails, browse web pages, and access streaming media.

The audio output unit 903 may convert audio data received by the radio frequency unit 901 or the network module 902 or stored in the memory 909 into an audio signal and output as sound. Also, the audio output unit 903 may also provide audio output related to a specific function performed by the mobile terminal 900 (e.g., a call signal reception sound, a message reception sound, etc.). The audio output unit 903 includes a speaker, a buzzer, a receiver, and the like.

The input unit 904 is used to receive audio or video signals. The input Unit 904 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 9041 and a microphone 9042, and the Graphics processor 9041 processes image data of a still picture or video obtained by an image capturing device (such as a camera) in a video capture mode or an image capture mode. The processed image frames may be displayed on the display unit 9010. The image frames processed by the graphic processor 9041 may be stored in the memory 909 (or other storage medium) or transmitted via the radio frequency unit 901 or the network module 902. The microphone 9042 can receive sounds and can process such sounds into audio data. The processed audio data may be converted into a format output transmittable to a mobile communication base station via the radio frequency unit 901 in case of the phone call mode.

The mobile terminal 900 also includes at least one sensor 905, such as a light sensor, motion sensor, and other sensors. Specifically, the light sensor includes an ambient light sensor that can adjust the brightness of the display panel 9061 according to the brightness of ambient light, and a proximity sensor that can turn off the display panel 9061 and/or backlight when the mobile terminal 900 is moved to the ear. As one of the motion sensors, the accelerometer sensor can detect the magnitude of acceleration in each direction (generally three axes), detect the magnitude and direction of gravity when stationary, and can be used to identify the posture of the mobile terminal (such as horizontal and vertical screen switching, related games, magnetometer posture calibration), and vibration identification related functions (such as pedometer, tapping); the sensors 905 may also include a fingerprint sensor, a pressure sensor, an iris sensor, a molecular sensor, a gyroscope, a barometer, a hygrometer, a thermometer, an infrared sensor, etc., which are not described in detail herein.

The display unit 906 is used to display information input by the user or information provided to the user. The Display unit 906 may include a Display panel 9061, and the Display panel 9061 may be configured in the form of a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), an Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED), or the like.

The user input unit 907 may be used to receive input numeric or character information and generate key signal inputs related to user settings and function control of the mobile terminal. Specifically, the user input unit 907 includes a touch panel 9071 and other input devices 9072. The touch panel 9071, also referred to as a touch screen, may collect touch operations by a user on or near the touch panel 9071 (e.g., operations by a user on or near the touch panel 9071 using a finger, a stylus, or any other suitable object or accessory). The touch panel 9071 may include two parts, a touch detection device and a touch controller. The touch detection device detects the touch direction of a user, detects a signal brought by touch operation and transmits the signal to the touch controller; the touch controller receives touch information from the touch sensing device, converts the touch information into touch point coordinates, sends the touch point coordinates to the processor 910, receives a command from the processor 910, and executes the command. In addition, the touch panel 9071 may be implemented by using various types such as a resistive type, a capacitive type, an infrared ray, and a surface acoustic wave. The user input unit 907 may include other input devices 9072 in addition to the touch panel 9071. Specifically, the other input devices 9072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (such as a volume control key, a switch key, and the like), a track ball, a mouse, and a joystick, which are not described herein again.

Further, the touch panel 9071 may be overlaid on the display panel 9061, and when the touch panel 9071 detects a touch operation on or near the touch panel 9071, the touch panel is transmitted to the processor 910 to determine the type of the touch event, and then the processor 910 provides a corresponding visual output on the display panel 9061 according to the type of the touch event. Although in fig. 9, the touch panel 9071 and the display panel 9061 are two independent components to implement the input and output functions of the mobile terminal, in some embodiments, the touch panel 9071 and the display panel 9061 may be integrated to implement the input and output functions of the mobile terminal, which is not limited herein.

The interface unit 908 is an interface through which an external device is connected to the mobile terminal 900. For example, the external device may include a wired or wireless headset port, an external power supply (or battery charger) port, a wired or wireless data port, a memory card port, a port for connecting a device having an identification module, an audio input/output (I/O) port, a video I/O port, an earphone port, and the like. The interface unit 908 may be used to receive input from external devices (e.g., data information, power, etc.) and transmit the received input to one or more elements within the mobile terminal 900 or may be used to transmit data between the mobile terminal 900 and external devices.

The memory 909 may be used to store software programs as well as various data. The memory 909 may mainly include a storage program area and a storage data area, wherein the storage program area may store an operating system, an application program required for at least one function (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.), and the like; the storage data area may store data (such as audio data, a phonebook, etc.) created according to the use of the cellular phone, and the like. Further, the memory 909 may include high-speed random access memory, and may also include non-volatile memory, such as at least one magnetic disk storage device, flash memory device, or other volatile solid-state storage device.

The processor 910 is a control center of the mobile terminal, connects various parts of the entire mobile terminal using various interfaces and lines, and performs various functions of the mobile terminal and processes data by running or executing software programs and/or modules stored in the memory 909 and calling data stored in the memory 909, thereby performing overall monitoring of the mobile terminal. Processor 910 may include one or more processing units; preferably, the processor 910 may integrate an application processor, which mainly handles operating systems, user interfaces, application programs, etc., and a modem processor, which mainly handles wireless communications. It is to be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into processor 910.

The mobile terminal 900 may also include a power supply 911 (e.g., a battery) for powering the various components, and preferably, the power supply 911 is logically connected to the processor 910 through a power management system that provides power management functions to manage charging, discharging, and power consumption.

Preferably, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a mobile terminal, including a processor 910, a memory 909, and a computer program stored in the memory 909 and capable of running on the processor 910, where the computer program, when executed by the processor 910, implements each process of the above-mentioned method embodiment for application association starting, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not described here again.

EXAMPLE six

The embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the computer program implements each process of the method embodiment for application association starting, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not repeated here. The computer-readable storage medium may be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk.

The embodiment of the application provides a computer-readable storage medium, which is used for establishing an association relationship between a second application and a first application through acquired information of the second application to be associated, so that a terminal device acquires and displays an icon of the second application, which is established with the association relationship with the first application, when detecting that a first predetermined operation is performed on the icon of the first application subsequently, and then starts the second application when detecting that a second predetermined operation is performed on the icon of the second application.

As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, embodiments of the present invention may be provided as a method, system, or computer program product. Accordingly, the present invention may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, the present invention may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.

The present invention is described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

In a typical configuration, a computing device includes one or more processors (CPUs), input/output interfaces, network interfaces, and memory.

The memory may include forms of volatile memory in a computer readable medium, Random Access Memory (RAM) and/or non-volatile memory, such as Read Only Memory (ROM) or flash memory (flash RAM). Memory is an example of a computer-readable medium.

Computer-readable media, including both non-transitory and non-transitory, removable and non-removable media, may implement information storage by any method or technology. The information may be computer readable instructions, data structures, modules of a program, or other data. Examples of computer storage media include, but are not limited to, phase change memory (PRAM), Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), other types of Random Access Memory (RAM), Read Only Memory (ROM), Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM), flash memory or other memory technology, compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM), Digital Versatile Discs (DVD) or other optical storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tape magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other non-transmission medium that can be used to store information that can be accessed by a computing device. As defined herein, a computer readable medium does not include a transitory computer readable medium such as a modulated data signal and a carrier wave.

It should also be noted that the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, embodiments of the present application may be provided as a method, system, or computer program product. Accordingly, the present application may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, the present application may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.

The above description is only an example of the present application and is not intended to limit the present application. Various modifications and changes may occur to those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present application should be included in the scope of the claims of the present application.

Claims

1. A method for application association launching, the method comprising:

establishing an association relationship between a first application and a second application based on the use frequency of an application program, wherein the use frequency of the first application is higher than that of the second application, and the first application and the second application are different types of applications;

displaying an icon of the second application having an association relation with the first application when a first predetermined operation on the icon of the first application is detected;

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

acquiring a preset opening instruction of an application correlation function;

opening the application correlation function according to the opening instruction;

detecting a first predetermined operation on an icon of the first application, including:

detecting a first predetermined operation on an icon of the first application in a case where the application association function is turned on.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the establishing of the association relationship between the first application and the second application specifically includes:

acquiring information of the second application;

4. The method of claim 3, wherein obtaining information for the second application comprises:

receiving touch input of a user on the application selection interface;

5. The method according to claim 2, wherein the opening instruction of the application-related function is generated by any one of the following methods: the input fingerprint, voice print or face data are respectively preset fingerprint, voice print or face data and appointed operation on a preset induction area, wherein the preset induction area comprises an infrared induction area, a touch induction area, a temperature induction area and a pressure induction area; or,

6. An apparatus for application association initiation, the apparatus comprising:

the association relation establishing module is used for establishing an association relation between a first application and a second application based on the use frequency of an application program, the use frequency of the first application is higher than that of the second application, and the first application and the second application are different types of applications;

the display module is used for displaying the icon of the second application in an associated relationship with the first application when a first preset operation on the icon of the first application is detected;

7. The apparatus of claim 6, further comprising:

the application association opening module is used for opening the application association function according to the opening instruction;

8. The apparatus of claim 6, further comprising:

the association relationship establishing module is specifically configured to establish an association relationship between the second application and the first application according to the information of the second application.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the associated application obtaining module comprises:

10. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the opening instruction of the application-related function is generated by any one of the following methods: the input fingerprint, voice print or face data are respectively preset fingerprint, voice print or face data and appointed operation on a preset induction area, wherein the preset induction area comprises an infrared induction area, a touch induction area, a temperature induction area and a pressure induction area; or,

11. A mobile terminal, characterized in that it comprises a processor, a memory and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, which computer program, when executed by the processor, carries out the steps of the method of application-associated launching as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 5.

12. A computer-readable storage medium, characterized in that a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, which computer program, when being executed by a processor, carries out the steps of the method of application-associated launching as claimed in any one of the claims 1 to 5.