CN108418967B

CN108418967B - APP searching method, device, medium and computing equipment

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Publication number: CN108418967B
Application number: CN201810179333.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 仉长娟; 赵明义; 杨杰; 冯韵; 蒋蕊遥
Original assignee: Netease Hangzhou Network Co Ltd
Current assignee: Hangzhou Netease Shuzhifan Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2018-02-06
Filing date: 2018-03-05
Publication date: 2021-06-18
Anticipated expiration: 2038-03-05
Also published as: CN108418967A

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention provides an APP searching method, which comprises the following steps: detecting whether APP searching operation aiming at the terminal equipment exists or not; and if detecting that the APP searching operation aiming at the terminal equipment exists, responding to the APP searching operation, and enabling the icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal equipment to emerge on the display interface of the terminal equipment according to a preset presentation mode. The method and the device have the advantages that the icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal equipment is enabled to emerge on the display interface of the terminal equipment according to the preset presentation mode by responding to the APP searching operation of the user, and the defects that in the related technology, no matter the APP is quickly searched by utilizing the APP built in the equipment or by installing a specific plug-in, the corresponding quick gesture needs to be memorized, the memory cost is high, and the heavy memory burden causes that the user still cannot efficiently and conveniently open the target APP are overcome, so that the efficiency of searching the APP is remarkably improved. In addition, the embodiment of the invention provides an APP searching device.

Description

APP searching method, device, medium and computing equipment

Technical Field

Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of information processing, and more particularly, to an Application software (APP) search method, an APP search apparatus, a computer-readable storage medium, and a computing device.

Background

This section is intended to provide a background or context to the embodiments of the invention that are recited in the claims. The description herein is not admitted to be prior art by inclusion in this section.

The mobile internet technology has penetrated into thousands of households, almost every household owns one or several mobile terminal devices, and especially almost everyone of mobile phones owns one mobile terminal device. APP makes people's life more convenient, can satisfy user's multinomial demand through installing APP software on mobile terminal equipment such as cell-phone. Therefore, almost every user has a large number of APPs installed on their cell phone. In the face of a large number of APPs installed on mobile terminal equipment such as a mobile phone, the problem that the user cannot avoid the APP and needs to be solved preferentially is to find the desired APP quickly in the first time.

Currently, some APP fast-find schemes have emerged, such as using APP fast-find functionality built into the device and fast-finding APP by installing a specific plug-in.

However, in implementing the embodiments of the present disclosure, the inventors found that there are at least the following drawbacks in the related art: no matter utilize built-in APP to look for the function fast or look for APP fast through installing specific plug-in components in the equipment, all need remember corresponding swift gesture, lead to memory with high costs, and the heavy memory burden makes the user still can't open target APP conveniently with high efficiency.

Disclosure of Invention

However, due to the fact that the existing technology needs to utilize the built-in APP in the device to quickly search for the function and install the specific plug-in, the target APP cannot be efficiently and conveniently opened when searching for the APP.

Therefore, in the prior art, searching for the APP usually requires memorizing a corresponding shortcut gesture, which results in high memory cost, and the user still cannot efficiently and conveniently open the target APP due to the heavy memory burden. This is very annoying.

Therefore, an improved APP search method is needed, so that a user can efficiently and conveniently find a target APP from a plurality of APPs and open the target APP.

In this context, embodiments of the present invention are expected to provide an improved APP lookup method and apparatus.

In a first aspect of an embodiment of the present invention, an APP search method is provided, including: detecting whether APP searching operation aiming at the terminal equipment exists or not; and responding to the APP searching operation if the APP searching operation aiming at the terminal equipment is detected to exist, and enabling the icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal equipment to emerge on the display interface of the terminal equipment according to a preset presentation mode.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the icons corresponding to APPs installed on the terminal device are made to: gradually emerging from the periphery of the screen of the terminal equipment to the center thereof in a radial mode; or gradually emerge from the center of the screen of the terminal equipment to the periphery thereof in a radial mode; or gradually emerge from the transverse central line of the screen of the terminal device to the upper and lower edges thereof in a transverse manner; or gradually emerge from the upper edge and the lower edge of the screen of the terminal equipment to the transverse center line thereof in a transverse mode; or gradually emerges from the longitudinal central line of the screen of the terminal equipment to the left and right edges thereof in a longitudinal mode; or gradually emerge from the left and right edges of the screen of the terminal device to the longitudinal center line thereof in a longitudinal manner.

In another embodiment of the present invention, in a case where the icons gradually emerge from the periphery of the screen of the terminal device toward the center thereof in a radial manner, the color of the icon which emerges first gradually becomes lighter and the size thereof gradually becomes smaller as the icon continues to emerge; under the condition that the icons gradually emerge from the center of the screen of the terminal equipment to the periphery of the screen in a radial mode, along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge first gradually becomes lighter and the size of the icons gradually becomes larger; under the condition of gradually emerging from the transverse central line of the screen of the terminal equipment to the upper edge and the lower edge thereof in a transverse mode, along with the continuous emerging of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge first is gradually lightened, and the size of the icons is kept unchanged; under the condition of gradually emerging from the upper edge and the lower edge of the screen of the terminal equipment to the transverse center line thereof in a transverse mode, along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge firstly becomes gradually lighter and the size of the icons keeps unchanged; under the condition of gradually emerging from the longitudinal central line of the screen of the terminal equipment to the left and right edges thereof in a longitudinal mode, along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge first is gradually lightened, and the size of the icons is kept unchanged; under the condition of gradually emerging from the left and right edges of the screen of the terminal equipment to the longitudinal center line thereof in a longitudinal mode, along with the continuous emerging of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge first is gradually lightened, and the size of the icons is kept unchanged. In another embodiment of the present invention, the icons corresponding to APPs installed on the terminal device are made to: gradually emerging from the periphery of the screen of the terminal equipment to the center thereof in a radial mode in a circular or elliptical or random multi-deformation mode; or gradually emerge in a circular or elliptical or any multiple deformation form from the center of the screen of the terminal device to the periphery thereof in a radial manner.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the APP search method further includes: monitoring the movement of the finger of the user on the screen to obtain four attribute values: and calculating the four parameters to perform animation combination of transparency, zooming and displacement change on each icon on the desktop to realize the effect of icon appearance and fading.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the APP search method further includes: under the condition that the terminal equipment is unlocked, enabling an icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal equipment to emerge on an interface currently displayed by the terminal equipment according to the preset presentation mode; or under the condition that the terminal equipment is not unlocked, the terminal equipment is firstly enabled to execute unlocking operation, and then icons corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal equipment are enabled to emerge on an interface displayed after the terminal equipment is unlocked according to the preset presentation mode.

In another embodiment of the present invention, in the process of enabling the icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal device to emerge on the display interface of the terminal device according to a predetermined presentation manner: detecting whether an operation body stops executing the APP searching operation on the terminal equipment or not; and if the operation body is detected to stop executing the APP searching operation on the terminal equipment, stopping the icon emerging action of the terminal equipment and keeping the display state of the icon on the current display interface.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the APP search method further includes: after the display state of the icon on the current display interface is maintained, whether the operation body executes APP opening operation on the target icon displayed on the display interface is detected; and responding to the APP opening operation and entering an APP interface corresponding to the target icon if the fact that the APP opening operation is executed by the operation body aiming at the target icon displayed on the display interface is detected.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the APP search method further includes: according to the use frequency of the APP and/or the placing sequence of the icons of the APP on the interface, the icons corresponding to the APPs installed on the terminal equipment emerge on the display interface of the terminal equipment according to a preset presenting mode. In still another embodiment of the present invention, detecting whether there is an APP lookup operation for a terminal device includes: detecting whether touch operation for searching APP exists for the terminal equipment; and/or detecting whether a gesture for finding the APP aiming at the terminal equipment exists.

In a second aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, an APP search apparatus is provided, including: the first detection module is used for detecting whether APP searching operation aiming at the terminal equipment exists or not; and a first response module, configured to, when it is detected that the APP search operation for the terminal device exists, respond to the APP search operation, and enable an icon corresponding to an APP installed on the terminal device to emerge on a display interface of the terminal device according to a predetermined presentation manner.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the first response module is further configured to enable an icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal device to: gradually emerging from the periphery of the screen of the terminal equipment to the center thereof in a radial mode; or gradually emerge from the center of the screen of the terminal equipment to the periphery thereof in a radial mode; or gradually emerge from the transverse central line of the screen of the terminal device to the upper and lower edges thereof in a transverse manner; or gradually emerge from the upper edge and the lower edge of the screen of the terminal equipment to the transverse center line thereof in a transverse mode; or gradually emerges from the longitudinal central line of the screen of the terminal equipment to the left and right edges thereof in a longitudinal mode; or gradually emerge from the left and right edges of the screen of the terminal device to the longitudinal center line thereof in a longitudinal manner.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the first response module is further configured to: under the condition that the icons gradually emerge from the periphery of the screen of the terminal equipment to the center thereof in a radial mode, along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge first gradually becomes lighter and the size of the icons gradually becomes smaller; under the condition that the icons gradually emerge from the center of the screen of the terminal equipment to the periphery of the screen in a radial mode, along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge first gradually becomes lighter and the size of the icons gradually becomes larger; under the condition of gradually emerging from the transverse central line of the screen of the terminal equipment to the upper edge and the lower edge thereof in a transverse mode, along with the continuous emerging of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge first is gradually lightened, and the size of the icons is kept unchanged; under the condition of gradually emerging from the upper edge and the lower edge of the screen of the terminal equipment to the transverse center line thereof in a transverse mode, along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge firstly becomes gradually lighter and the size of the icons keeps unchanged; under the condition of gradually emerging from the longitudinal central line of the screen of the terminal equipment to the left and right edges thereof in a longitudinal mode, along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge first is gradually lightened, and the size of the icons is kept unchanged; under the condition of gradually emerging from the left and right edges of the screen of the terminal equipment to the longitudinal center line thereof in a longitudinal mode, along with the continuous emerging of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge first is gradually lightened, and the size of the icons is kept unchanged.

In a further embodiment of the present invention, the first response module is further configured to monitor the movement of the user's finger on the screen to obtain four attribute values: and calculating the four parameters to perform animation combination of transparency, zooming and displacement change on each icon on the desktop to realize the effect of icon appearance and fading.

In a further embodiment of the present invention, the first response module is further configured to enable an icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal device to: gradually emerging from the periphery of the screen of the terminal equipment to the center thereof in a radial mode in a circular or elliptical or random multi-deformation mode; or gradually emerge in a circular or elliptical or any multiple deformation form from the center of the screen of the terminal device to the periphery thereof in a radial manner.

In yet another embodiment of the present invention, the first response module includes: a first response unit, configured to, when the terminal device is unlocked, enable an icon corresponding to an APP installed on the terminal device to emerge on an interface currently displayed by the terminal device according to the predetermined presentation manner; or the second response unit is used for firstly enabling the terminal equipment to execute unlocking operation under the condition that the terminal equipment is not unlocked, and then enabling the icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal equipment to emerge on the interface displayed after the terminal equipment is unlocked according to the preset presentation mode.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the APP search apparatus further includes: a second detection module, configured to detect whether an operation body has stopped executing the APP search operation on the terminal device in a process of causing an icon corresponding to an APP installed on the terminal device to emerge on a display interface of the terminal device according to a predetermined presentation manner; and the control module is used for stopping the icon emerging action of the terminal equipment and keeping the display state of the icon on the current display interface under the condition that the operation body is detected to stop executing the APP searching operation on the terminal equipment.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the APP search apparatus further includes: the third detection module is used for detecting whether the operation body executes APP opening operation on a target icon displayed on the display interface after the display state of the icon on the current display interface is maintained; and a second response module, configured to respond to the APP open operation and enter an APP interface corresponding to the target icon when it is detected that the operating body performs the APP open operation on the target icon displayed on the display interface.

In a further embodiment of the present invention, the first response module is further configured to: according to the use frequency of the APP and/or the placing sequence of the icons of the APP on the interface, the icons corresponding to the APPs installed on the terminal equipment emerge on the display interface of the terminal equipment according to a preset presenting mode.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the first detecting module includes: the device comprises a first detection unit, a second detection unit and a control unit, wherein the first detection unit is used for detecting whether touch operation for searching APP for the terminal equipment exists; and/or the second detection unit is used for detecting whether a gesture for searching the APP for the terminal equipment exists.

In a third aspect of embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon executable instructions that, when executed by a processing unit, cause the processing unit to perform an APP lookup method as described in any one of the above embodiments.

In a fourth aspect of embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a computing device comprising: a processing unit; and a storage unit, on which executable instructions are stored, and when the instructions are executed by the processing unit, the processing unit executes the APP search method according to any one of the embodiments.

According to the APP searching method and device provided by the embodiment of the invention, after the APP searching operation aiming at the terminal equipment is detected, the APP searching operation is responded, the icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal equipment is enabled to emerge on the display interface of the terminal equipment according to the preset presentation mode, and the technical problems that in the related technology, no matter the APP quick searching function built in the equipment is utilized or the APP is quickly searched by installing a specific plug-in, the corresponding quick gesture needs to be memorized, the memory cost is high, and the heavy memory burden enables a user to still not efficiently and conveniently open the target APP are solved.

Drawings

The above and other objects, features and advantages of exemplary embodiments of the present invention will become readily apparent from the following detailed description read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Several embodiments of the invention are illustrated by way of example, and not by way of limitation, in the figures of the accompanying drawings and in which:

fig. 1 schematically shows an application scenario suitable for an APP search method and apparatus thereof according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2A schematically illustrates a flow diagram of an APP lookup method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2B schematically illustrates a schematic diagram of a radial emergence of APP icons, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2C schematically illustrates a schematic diagram of a lateral flooding pattern of APP icons, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2D schematically illustrates a schematic diagram of a longitudinal flooding pattern of APP icons, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2E schematically illustrates a flow diagram of an APP lookup method according to another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2F schematically illustrates a flow diagram of an APP lookup method according to another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3A schematically shows a block diagram of an APP lookup apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3B schematically shows a block diagram of an APP lookup apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3C schematically shows a block diagram of an APP lookup apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 schematically shows a schematic view of a computer-readable storage medium product according to an embodiment of the invention; and

FIG. 5 schematically shows a block diagram of a computing device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In the drawings, the same or corresponding reference numerals indicate the same or corresponding parts.

Detailed Description

The principles and spirit of the present invention will be described with reference to a number of exemplary embodiments. It is understood that these embodiments are given solely for the purpose of enabling those skilled in the art to better understand and to practice the invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the disclosure to those skilled in the art.

As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, embodiments of the present invention may be embodied as a system, apparatus, device, method, or computer program product. Accordingly, the present disclosure may be embodied in the form of: entirely hardware, entirely software (including firmware, resident software, micro-code, etc.), or a combination of hardware and software.

According to the embodiment of the invention, an APP searching method, device, medium and computing equipment are provided.

The principles and spirit of the present invention are explained in detail below with reference to several representative embodiments of the invention.

Summary of The Invention

In the process of implementing the embodiment of the present invention, the inventors found that: the search APP schemes provided by the related art, such as utilizing the APP built-in device to search for the APP quickly and searching for the APP quickly by installing a specific plug-in, all need to memorize corresponding quick gestures, resulting in high memory cost, and the burdensome memory burden makes the user still unable to open the target APP efficiently and conveniently.

The embodiment of the invention provides an APP searching method, which comprises the following steps: detecting whether APP searching operation aiming at the terminal equipment exists or not; and if detecting that the APP searching operation aiming at the terminal equipment exists, responding to the APP searching operation, and enabling the icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal equipment to emerge on the display interface of the terminal equipment according to a preset presentation mode. The method and the device can respond to the APP searching operation of the user and enable the icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal device to emerge on the display interface of the terminal device according to the preset presenting mode, so that the defects that the memory cost is high due to the fact that corresponding quick gestures need to be memorized in the related technology, and the user cannot efficiently and conveniently open the target APP due to heavy memory burden are overcome at least partially.

Having described the general principles of the invention, various non-limiting embodiments of the invention are described in detail below.

Application scene overview

First, an exemplary architecture application scenario suitable for the APP search method and the apparatus thereof according to the embodiment of the present invention is described in detail with reference to fig. 1.

In the application scenario of the embodiment of the present disclosure, a plurality of APPs are generally installed on the terminal device, each APP is designed with a corresponding icon, and for convenience of searching, the icons can be displayed on the display interface of the terminal device, and further, when the number of the icons is too large, the display interface of the terminal device can be set to multiple screens. As shown in fig. 1, the display interface of the terminal device includes 4 screens (one black dot and three white dots in the drawing are used to indicate that the display interface includes 4 screens, where the black dot is used to indicate the interface currently being displayed), and when a user searches for an APP, the user only needs to find an icon corresponding to the APP from the terminal device. However, since the icon corresponding to the APP may be set on one of the 4 display interfaces of the terminal device, at this time, if the user wants to find the icon, the user needs to search one screen and one screen or remember the position of the screen where the icon is located, which is very inconvenient to operate. In such a scenario, if a user wants to find out an APP from the APP for use conveniently and quickly, the APP can be implemented by the technical solution provided by the embodiment of the present invention.

Exemplary method

The APP lookup method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is described below with reference to fig. 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 2E, 2F. It should be noted that the above application scenarios are merely illustrated for the convenience of understanding the spirit and principles of the present invention, and the embodiments of the present invention are not limited in this respect. Rather, embodiments of the present invention may be applied to any scenario where applicable.

The embodiment of the invention provides an APP searching method.

Fig. 2A schematically shows a flowchart of an APP lookup method according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 2A, the method may include the operations of:

operation S201, detecting whether there is an APP search operation for the terminal device.

Operation S202, if it is detected that there is an APP search operation for the terminal device, responding to the APP search operation, and enabling an icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal device to emerge on a display interface of the terminal device according to a predetermined presentation manner.

It should be noted that, the terminal devices related to the embodiments of the present disclosure may include, but are not limited to, a mobile phone, a tablet computer, and the like, and each of the terminal devices has a display screen, and the display screens of the terminal devices may include, but are not limited to, a touch screen, and the like.

With the increasing demand of users, various APPs emerge endlessly, and thus a terminal device is generally installed with a plurality of APPs. In order to facilitate management and search of the APPs by a user, a corresponding icon is generally designed for each APP to represent the APP, and the icons of the APP are displayed on a display interface of the terminal device. In such a scenario, if a user wants to find out an APP from the APP for use conveniently and quickly, the APP can be implemented by the technical solution provided by the embodiment of the present invention.

Specifically, when a user wants to search for an APP, a preset APP search operation may be performed on the terminal device, where the preset APP search operation includes, but is not limited to, a two-finger retraction (also called a two-finger pinch) (and/or a multiple-finger retraction), a two-finger extension (and/or a multiple-finger extension), and the like, and the APP search operation(s) will respond after being detected by the terminal device, for example, control icons corresponding to all APPs installed on the terminal device to emerge on a display interface of the terminal device according to a predetermined presentation manner. Here, the predetermined presentation may include, but is not limited to, radially inward-outward, radially outward-inward, laterally inward-outward, laterally outward-inward, longitudinally inward-outward, longitudinally outward-inward, and the like. The descriptions of these predetermined presentation manners will be described in detail below, and will not be described in detail herein.

According to the embodiment of the invention, the icons corresponding to all APPs installed on the terminal equipment are controlled to automatically and regularly emerge on the display interface of the terminal equipment according to the preset presentation mode in response to the APP searching operation, and excessive additional memory is not required for a user, so that the technical problems that in the related technology, no matter the APP quick searching function built in the equipment is utilized or the APP is quickly searched by installing a specific plug-in, the corresponding quick gesture needs to be memorized, the memory cost is high, and the user cannot efficiently and conveniently open the target APP due to heavy memory burden are solved at least partially, and the technical effects of reducing the user burden and improving the user searching efficiency are achieved.

Unlike the embodiment of the present disclosure, in a prior art, a user performs classification management on icons corresponding to APPs installed on a mobile phone, specifically, the operation is to classify the icons, establish and name related grouping folders, and then drag different types of icons into corresponding grouping folders, however, when finding APPs by using this method, the user needs to remember the name of the grouping folder to which each icon belongs and the location of the screen where the grouping folder is located, for example, when a mobile phone screen includes multiple screens and the icons corresponding to APPs installed on the mobile phone are set in multiple grouping folders, the process of finding APPs by the user is as follows: the method comprises the steps of sliding a screen, positioning to a screen where a grouping folder containing an icon corresponding to an APP to be searched is located, searching the grouping folder, clicking to open the grouping folder, and clicking the icon corresponding to the APP. Another prior art is to set a shortcut for APP through a plug-in, specifically, the method includes downloading and installing the plug-in on a mobile phone, then setting a shortcut for each APP by using the plug-in, for example, setting a corresponding letter for each APP, and when a user searches for APPs, drawing the corresponding letter on a touch screen of the mobile phone; however, when finding the APP by using the method, the user needs to download and install the plug-in first, and then the plug-in is used for setting a shortcut for each APP, so the user can be away from the use of the plug-in due to the high operation cost, and meanwhile the user needs to remember the shortcut gesture of each APP, that is, the memory cost of the user is very high, and the user still can open the mobile phone APP efficiently and conveniently due to the too large memory burden. Another prior art is that the mobile phone is built-in with functions of searching for APP by letter gestures, for example, some mobile phones can quickly find out the corresponding APP by drawing the corresponding letter on the screen of the mobile phone, however, when finding APPs in this way, only a few letters can be drawn, and therefore, only a corresponding few APPs, such as music, camera, browser, weather application, etc., can be found, but if a letter is set for each APP, because of the limited number of letters, the single letter cannot correspond to the APPs one to one, and at this time, the user needs to define the letter name corresponding to each APP, then, the user can remember the name, so that the name which the user needs to remember is more and is easy to forget, therefore, the method still can not provide good use experience for the user to quickly open the mobile phone APP, that is, for a user installed with multiple APP applications, the method does not solve the requirement that the user quickly searches for the APP of the mobile phone.

As an optional embodiment, an icon corresponding to an APP installed on a terminal device is made: gradually emerging from the periphery to the center of the screen of the terminal device in a radial manner; or gradually emerge from the center of the screen of the terminal device to the periphery thereof in a radial manner; or gradually emerges from the transverse center line of the screen of the terminal device to the upper and lower edges thereof in a transverse manner; or gradually emerge from the upper edge and the lower edge of the screen of the terminal equipment to the transverse center line thereof in a transverse mode; or gradually emerges from the longitudinal central line of the screen of the terminal equipment to the left and right edges thereof in a longitudinal mode; or gradually emerge from the left and right edges of the screen of the terminal device toward the longitudinal center line thereof in a longitudinal manner.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, after the terminal device detects that there is a search operation for an APP installed thereon, icons corresponding to all APPs installed on the terminal device may be controlled to emerge on a display interface of the terminal device according to a predetermined presentation manner, where the specific presentation manner may refer to the following several embodiments.

As an optional embodiment, the predetermined presentation manner includes a radial manner, and when it is detected that there is an APP search operation (for example, two-finger retraction and/or multi-finger retraction) that is preset for the terminal device, icons corresponding to all APPs installed on the terminal device may gradually emerge from the periphery of the screen of the terminal device to the center thereof in the radial manner; in the case that it is detected that there is a preset search operation (for example, a double-finger extension and/or a multi-finger extension) for the APPs of the terminal device, icons corresponding to all the APPs installed on the terminal device may gradually emerge from the center of the screen of the terminal device to the periphery thereof in a radial manner.

As an optional embodiment, the predetermined presentation manner includes a horizontal manner, and when it is detected that there is an APP search operation (for example, two-finger extension and/or multi-finger extension) performed in advance for the terminal device, icons corresponding to all APPs installed on the terminal device may gradually emerge from a horizontal center line of a screen of the terminal device to upper and lower edges thereof in the horizontal manner; in the case that it is detected that there is an APP search operation (e.g., two-finger and/or multi-finger zoom) performed in advance for the terminal device, icons corresponding to all APPs installed on the terminal device may gradually emerge from upper and lower edges of a screen of the terminal device to a lateral center line thereof in a lateral manner.

As an optional embodiment, the predetermined presentation manner includes a vertical manner, and when it is detected that there is an APP search operation (for example, a double-finger extension and/or a multi-finger extension) that is preset for the terminal device, icons corresponding to all APPs installed on the terminal device may gradually emerge from a vertical center line of a screen of the terminal device to left and right edges thereof in the vertical manner; when detecting that there is an APP search operation (e.g., two-finger and/or multi-finger zoom) preset for the terminal device, icons corresponding to all APPs installed on the terminal device may gradually emerge from left and right edges of a screen of the terminal device to a longitudinal center line thereof in a longitudinal manner.

Through the embodiment of the disclosure, the icons corresponding to the APPs installed on the terminal equipment are enabled to emerge on the display interface of the terminal equipment according to various different preset presentation modes, so that the user can be helped to efficiently and conveniently find the target APP from the numerous APPs, the presentation modes of the APPs of the terminal equipment can be set in a personalized mode according to the hobbies of the user, and the experience effect of the user can be improved; in addition, the user does not need to remember the positions of the icons corresponding to the APPs on the terminal equipment, and the memory burden of the user can be reduced.

As an alternative embodiment, in the case where the icons gradually emerge from the periphery of the screen of the terminal device toward the center thereof in a radial manner, the color of the icon that emerges first gradually becomes lighter and the size thereof gradually becomes smaller as the icon continues to emerge; under the condition that the icons gradually emerge from the center of the screen of the terminal equipment to the periphery of the screen in a radial mode, along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge first gradually becomes lighter and the size of the icons gradually becomes larger; under the condition of gradually emerging from the transverse central line of the screen of the terminal equipment to the upper edge and the lower edge thereof in a transverse mode, along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge firstly becomes gradually lighter and the size of the icons keeps unchanged; under the condition of gradually emerging from the upper edge and the lower edge of the screen of the terminal equipment to the transverse center line thereof in a transverse mode, along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge firstly becomes gradually lighter and the size of the icons keeps unchanged; under the condition of gradually emerging from the longitudinal central line of the screen of the terminal equipment to the left and right edges thereof in a longitudinal mode, along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge first is gradually lightened, and the size of the icons is kept unchanged; under the condition of gradually emerging from the left and right edges of the screen of the terminal equipment to the longitudinal center line thereof in a longitudinal mode, along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge first is gradually lightened, and the size of the icons is kept unchanged.

It should be noted that, the embodiment of the present disclosure is inspired by the disappearance of the inner layer appearing on the outer layer of the water ripple, so that the icon corresponding to the APP on the display interface appears on the mobile phone screen in a manner similar to the gradual-in and gradual-out of the water ripple, which can facilitate the user to browse all APPs quickly and select. For example, when it is detected that a two-finger pinch-in operation performed on the terminal device exists, the icons corresponding to the APPs on the terminal device may be controlled to present a fade-in and fade-out state on the screen of the terminal device in a radial manner, a horizontal manner, or a vertical manner, for example, the inner layer icons disappear gradually, and the outer layer icons rush in continuously. The present solution is described in detail below by means of several specific embodiments.

As an optional embodiment, as shown in fig. 2B, if it is detected that there is an APP search operation (for example, two fingers are retracted) for the terminal device, the icons corresponding to all APPs of the terminal device may gradually emerge from the periphery of the screen of the terminal device to the center thereof in a radial manner, and as the icons continuously emerge, the color of the icon (which may be the icon emerging first) located in the inner layer of the screen gradually becomes lighter and the size of the icon gradually decreases until the icon disappears, and the icon located in the outer layer of the screen gradually emerges into the inner layer. If finding operation (for example, double-finger outward expansion) for the terminal device APP is detected, icons corresponding to all the APPs of the terminal device gradually emerge from the center of the screen of the terminal device to the periphery of the screen in a radial mode, the icons located in the inner layer of the screen gradually emerge into the outer layer along with the continuous emergence of the icons, and the icons located in the outer layer of the screen (which may be the icons emerging first) gradually become larger in size and lighter in color until disappear. The size of the icon at the outermost layer of the screen is a standard size (also called as the size in normal use), and the inner layer can represent the center of the screen, and the outer layer can represent the periphery of the screen.

As an alternative embodiment, as shown in fig. 2C, if it is detected that there is an APP search operation (for example, two fingers are retracted) for the terminal device, icons corresponding to all APPs of the terminal device may gradually emerge from upper and lower edges of a screen of the terminal device to a horizontal center line thereof in a horizontal manner, and as the icons continuously emerge, the size of an icon (which may be an icon emerging first) located in an inner layer of the screen is kept unchanged, but the color of the icon gradually fades until disappears, and the size of an icon located in an outer layer of the screen is kept unchanged, and gradually emerges into the inner layer. If it is detected that there is an APP search operation (e.g., double-finger extension) for the terminal device, icons corresponding to all APPs of the terminal device may gradually emerge from a transverse centerline of a screen of the terminal device to upper and lower edges thereof in a transverse manner, and as the icons continuously emerge, the size of the icon (which may be the icon emerging first) located on an outer layer of the screen remains unchanged, but the color of the icon gradually becomes lighter until disappears, and the size of the icon located on the inner layer of the screen remains unchanged and gradually emerges into the outer layer. Wherein the icon size at the outer layer of the screen is a standard size (also known as the size in normal use), and the inner layer can represent the middle layer near the screen, such as the transverse centerline, and the outer layer can represent the uppermost layer and the lowermost layer.

As an optional embodiment, as shown in fig. 2D, if it is detected that there is a search operation (for example, two fingers are retracted) for the APPs of the terminal device, the icons corresponding to all the APPs of the terminal device may gradually emerge from the left and right edges of the screen of the terminal device to the longitudinal center line thereof in a longitudinal manner, and along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the size of the icon (which may be the icon emerging first) located in the inner layer of the screen is kept unchanged, but the color of the icon gradually becomes lighter until disappears, the size of the icon located in the outer layer of the screen is kept unchanged, and the icon gradually emerges into the inner layer. If detecting that there is an APP search operation (for example, double-finger outward expansion) for the terminal device, the icons corresponding to all APPs of the terminal device gradually emerge from the longitudinal center line of the screen of the terminal device to the left and right edges thereof in a longitudinal manner, and along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the size of the icon (which may be the icon emerging first) located on the outer layer of the screen remains unchanged, but the color of the icon gradually becomes lighter until disappears, and the size of the icon located on the inner layer of the screen remains unchanged and gradually emerges into the outer layer. Wherein the icon size on the outer layer of the screen is the standard size (also called the size in normal use), and the inner layer can represent the middle layer near the screen, such as the longitudinal center line, and the outer layer can represent the leftmost layer and the rightmost layer.

Through the embodiment of the disclosure, through making the icon that APP that installs on terminal equipment corresponds emerge on terminal equipment's display interface according to the gradually-in gradually-out mode of multiple differences, not only can help the user to efficiently and conveniently seek out the target APP from numerous APP, reduce the inefficiency that user one screen was looked for, improve the efficiency of looking for target APP in numerous APP on the cell-phone, can also be according to the personalized emergence mode of setting terminal equipment's APP of user's hobby, and then can improve user's experience effect.

As an optional embodiment, an icon corresponding to an APP installed on a terminal device is made: gradually emerging in a radial manner from the periphery to the centre of the screen of the terminal device in the form of a circle or an ellipse or any number of deformations; or gradually emerge in a circular or elliptical or any multiple deformation in a radial manner from the center of the screen of the terminal device towards its periphery.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, when the predetermined presentation manner includes a radial manner, the predetermined emerging manner of the icon corresponding to the APP of the terminal device may include, but is not limited to, a circle, an ellipse, a square, a rectangle, any number of variations, and the like.

Specifically, when detecting that there is an APP search operation (e.g., two-finger pinch and/or multi-finger pinch) for the terminal device, icons corresponding to all APPs of the terminal device may gradually emerge from the periphery of the screen of the terminal device to the center thereof in a radial manner according to the predetermined emerging manner; when detecting that there is an APP search operation (e.g., a double-finger extension and/or a multi-finger extension) for the terminal device, icons corresponding to all APPs of the terminal device may gradually emerge from the center of the screen of the terminal device to the periphery thereof in a radial manner according to the predetermined emergence manner.

Through the embodiment of the disclosure, when the preset presentation mode comprises a radial mode, the icon corresponding to the APP of the terminal equipment is made to emerge on the display interface of the terminal equipment according to multiple emerging modes, so that the user can be helped to efficiently and conveniently find the target APP from the numerous APPs, the emerging modes of the APPs of the terminal equipment can be set according to the preference individuation of the user, and the experience effect of the user can be improved.

As an optional embodiment, the APP search method may further include: under the condition that the terminal equipment is unlocked, enabling an icon corresponding to an APP installed on the terminal equipment to emerge on an interface currently displayed by the terminal equipment according to a preset presentation mode; or under the condition that the terminal equipment is not unlocked, the terminal equipment executes unlocking operation, and then the icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal equipment is made to emerge on the interface displayed after the terminal equipment is unlocked according to a preset presentation mode.

It should be noted that, when the terminal device is in the locked state, some operations, such as causing an icon to appear on the display interface, cannot be performed. Therefore, when detecting that there is an APP search operation for the terminal device, it may be further detected whether the terminal device is unlocked, and if it is detected that the terminal device is unlocked, an icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal device may appear on a display interface of the terminal device according to a predetermined presentation manner, for example, on an interface currently being displayed; if it is detected that the terminal device is not unlocked, the terminal device may first perform an unlocking operation, and then the icon corresponding to the APP on the terminal device may emerge on a display interface of the terminal device according to a predetermined presentation manner, for example, on the interface displayed after unlocking.

It should be understood that the above-mentioned predetermined presenting manner has been elaborated in the above-mentioned embodiment, and is not described herein again. In addition, when the display interface includes multiple screens, the interface displayed after unlocking may be a certain screen of the multiple screens, and is not limited specifically.

Through the embodiment of the disclosure, when the terminal device is in the unlocking state, the icon corresponding to the APP is shoved on the interface currently displayed or the interface displayed after unlocking according to the preset presentation mode, and the purposes of quickly browsing and searching the APP can be achieved.

Fig. 2E schematically shows a flow chart of an APP lookup method according to another embodiment of the invention.

As shown in fig. 2E, in the process of causing the icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal device to appear on the display interface of the terminal device according to the predetermined presentation manner, operations S301 to S302 may be included, where:

operation S301 detects whether the operation body has stopped executing the APP search operation on the terminal device.

In operation S302, if it is detected that the operation body has stopped executing the APP search operation on the terminal device, the terminal device stops the icon emergence action, and keeps the display state of the icon on the current display interface.

In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the operation body may include, but is not limited to, a finger, a palm, an arm, a body, and the like. When a user searches for the APP, preset APP searching operation can be executed on the terminal equipment, so that icons corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal equipment emerge on the display interface according to a preset presentation mode, and in the emerging process, the operation body can be hovered at any time, namely, the execution of the APP searching operation is stopped; and after the terminal device detects that the operation body stops executing the APP searching operation, the icon can stop emerging, and the icon is kept in the current display state of the display interface. Further, the user can click the icon that a certain APP on the display interface corresponds to open corresponding APP and get into the display interface of APP.

It should be noted that the terminal device may detect in real time whether the operation body has stopped executing the APP search operation, or may detect whether the operation body has stopped executing the APP search operation according to a preset time interval, and preferably, after detecting that there is the operation body executing the APP search operation on the terminal device, detect in real time whether the operation body has stopped executing the APP search operation on the terminal device, so that a defect that the true purpose of the user cannot be achieved due to no operation executed by the operation body on the terminal device being identified may be avoided.

Through the embodiment of the disclosure, after detecting that the operation body stops executing the APP searching operation on the terminal equipment, the terminal equipment can stop the icon emerging action and fix the display state of the icon on the current display interface, so that a user can find out the needed APP.

Fig. 2F schematically shows a flow chart of an APP lookup method according to another embodiment of the invention.

As shown in fig. 2F, the APP search method may further include operations S401 to S402, where:

in operation S401, after the display state of the icon on the current display interface is maintained, whether the operator performs an APP open operation on the target icon displayed on the display interface is detected.

In operation S402, if it is detected that the operation body executes an APP open operation for the target icon displayed on the display interface, responding to the APP open operation, and entering an APP interface corresponding to the target icon.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the target icon may be an icon corresponding to an APP in a plurality of APPs of the terminal device; the APP opening operation performed on the target icon can be performed by clicking the target icon, can also be performed by presetting a key, and can also be performed by presetting a gesture, without limitation.

According to the embodiment of the disclosure, after the display state from the icon to the current display interface is maintained, because one or more icons may be displayed on the current display interface, if a user wants to open an APP corresponding to a target icon, the user needs to determine the target icon from the one or more icons, and execute an APP opening operation on the determined target icon. Further, the terminal device may detect whether an operation body (e.g., a finger of a user) performs an APP open operation on the target icon, and if so, may respond to the APP open operation and enter an APP interface corresponding to the target icon.

Through the embodiment of the disclosure, after detecting that an operation body executes APP opening operation on a target icon, the user can enter an APP interface corresponding to the target icon, so that the user can find a needed APP and open the APP.

As an optional embodiment, the APP search method further includes: according to the use frequency of the APP and/or the placing sequence of the icons of the APP on the interface, the icons corresponding to the APPs installed on the terminal equipment emerge on the display interface of the terminal equipment according to a preset presenting mode.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, in a process that an icon corresponding to an APP installed on a terminal device appears on a display interface of the terminal device according to a predetermined presentation manner, a sequence of the icon corresponding to the APP appearing may be determined according to one of the following manners: the method comprises the steps of determining according to the using frequency of the APP, determining according to the placing sequence of the icons of the APP on the interface, and determining according to the using frequency of the APP and the placing sequence of the icons of the APP on the interface.

As an optional embodiment, the sequence of the icon emergence corresponding to the APP is determined according to the use frequency of the APP. Specifically, the icons corresponding to the commonly used APPs may be arranged at the inner circle of the screen of the terminal device, and the icons corresponding to the less commonly used APPs may be arranged at the outer circle of the screen of the terminal device. For example, when the user pinches in with both fingers, icons corresponding to APPs that are frequently used are firstly poured in, and with the pinch in with both fingers of the user, icons corresponding to APPs that are not frequently used are continuously poured in.

As an optional embodiment, determining the sequence of emerging icons corresponding to APPs is determined according to the placing sequence of the icons corresponding to the APPs on the interface. Specifically, under the rule of preferentially arranging according to the frequency, the icons are arranged according to the priority order placed on the display interface, for example, the display interface comprises three screens, when the user retracts in the two fingers, the icon corresponding to the APP of the first screen appears first, and along with the retraction in the two fingers, the icons corresponding to the APPs of the second screen and the third screen appear in succession.

Through the embodiment of the disclosure, the sequence of the icon emergence corresponding to the APP of the terminal equipment is determined through multiple modes, so that the user can be helped to efficiently and conveniently find the target APP from numerous APPs, the emergence mode of the APP of the terminal equipment can be set according to the preference individuation of the user, and the experience effect of the user can be improved.

As an optional embodiment, detecting whether there is an APP lookup operation for the terminal device includes: detecting whether touch operation for searching APP exists for the terminal equipment; and/or detecting whether a gesture for finding the APP aiming at the terminal equipment exists.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, the APP search operation for the terminal device may include, but is not limited to, a touch operation for searching APP for a touch screen of the terminal device, and a gesture for searching APP for the terminal device, where the gesture may be a gesture presented in the air, and a distance between the gesture and the terminal device is small and a preset distance, so that the terminal device may effectively detect the gesture.

Through this disclosed embodiment, after detecting above-mentioned touch operation and/or gesture, the icon that can make terminal equipment's APP correspond emerges on display interface according to predetermined presentation mode to alright with the purpose that can make user convenient and fast's browsing and seek APP, and detect the APP to terminal equipment through multiple mode and seek the operation, can improve the detection flexibility ratio, and then improve user's experience effect.

It should be noted that, when the user browses the APP of different colors on one screen, because different APPs may use similar pipe tobacco, the discrimination is lower, and causes visual fatigue easily, and the embodiment of this disclosure can reduce user's visual discomfort, promotes user experience. In addition, the embodiment of the disclosure takes a double-finger pinch mode as an example, and combines with an appearance mode of gradual change of an APP icon and hovering of the icon during double-finger pinch, color change of the icon when gradual change occurs and change of the size of the icon, so that the purpose of quickly browsing and searching for the needed APP can be achieved.

Exemplary devices

After introducing the method of the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the apparatus for implementing the APP search method of the exemplary embodiment of the present invention is described in detail with reference to fig. 3A, fig. 3B, and fig. 3C.

The embodiment of the invention provides an APP searching device.

Fig. 3A schematically shows a block diagram of an APP lookup apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in fig. 3A, the APP lookup apparatus 300 may include a first detection module 310 and a first response module 320, where:

the first detection module 310 is configured to detect whether there is an APP lookup operation for the terminal device.

The first response module 320 is configured to, when detecting that there is an APP search operation for the terminal device, respond to the APP search operation and enable an icon corresponding to an APP installed on the terminal device to emerge on a display interface of the terminal device according to a predetermined presentation manner.

As an optional embodiment, the first response module is further configured to enable an icon corresponding to an APP installed on the terminal device to: gradually emerging from the periphery to the center of the screen of the terminal device in a radial manner; or gradually emerge from the center of the screen of the terminal device to the periphery thereof in a radial manner; or gradually emerges from the transverse center line of the screen of the terminal device to the upper and lower edges thereof in a transverse manner; or gradually emerge from the upper edge and the lower edge of the screen of the terminal equipment to the transverse center line thereof in a transverse mode; or gradually emerges from the longitudinal central line of the screen of the terminal equipment to the left and right edges thereof in a longitudinal mode; or gradually emerge from the left and right edges of the screen of the terminal device toward the longitudinal center line thereof in a longitudinal manner.

As an alternative embodiment, the first response module is further configured to: under the condition that the icons gradually emerge from the periphery of the screen of the terminal equipment to the center of the screen in a radial mode, along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge first gradually becomes lighter and the size of the icons gradually becomes smaller; under the condition that the icons gradually emerge from the center of the screen of the terminal equipment to the periphery of the screen in a radial mode, along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge first gradually becomes lighter and the size of the icons gradually becomes larger; under the condition of gradually emerging from the transverse central line of the screen of the terminal equipment to the upper edge and the lower edge thereof in a transverse mode, along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge firstly becomes gradually lighter and the size of the icons keeps unchanged; under the condition of gradually emerging from the upper edge and the lower edge of the screen of the terminal equipment to the transverse center line thereof in a transverse mode, along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge firstly becomes gradually lighter and the size of the icons keeps unchanged; under the condition of gradually emerging from the longitudinal central line of the screen of the terminal equipment to the left and right edges thereof in a longitudinal mode, along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge first is gradually lightened, and the size of the icons is kept unchanged; under the condition of gradually emerging from the left and right edges of the screen of the terminal equipment to the longitudinal center line thereof in a longitudinal mode, along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge first is gradually lightened, and the size of the icons is kept unchanged.

As an optional embodiment, the first response module is further configured to enable an icon corresponding to an APP installed on the terminal device to: gradually emerging in a radial manner from the periphery to the centre of the screen of the terminal device in the form of a circle or an ellipse or any number of deformations; or gradually emerge in a circular or elliptical or any multiple deformation in a radial manner from the center of the screen of the terminal device towards its periphery.

As an alternative embodiment, the first response module includes: the first response unit is used for enabling the icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal equipment to emerge on the interface currently displayed by the terminal equipment according to a preset presentation mode under the condition that the terminal equipment is unlocked; or the second response unit is used for firstly enabling the terminal equipment to execute unlocking operation under the condition that the terminal equipment is not unlocked, and then enabling the icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal equipment to emerge on the interface displayed after the terminal equipment is unlocked according to a preset presentation mode.

Fig. 3B schematically shows a block diagram of an APP lookup apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in fig. 3B, the APP search apparatus 300 may further include a second detection module 410 and a control module 420, where:

the second detection module 410 is configured to detect whether the operator has stopped performing APP search operation on the terminal device in a process of enabling an icon corresponding to an APP installed on the terminal device to emerge on a display interface of the terminal device according to a predetermined presentation manner.

The control module 420 is configured to, when it is detected that the operator has stopped performing the APP search operation on the terminal device, cause the terminal device to stop the icon emergence action, and maintain the display state of the icon on the current display interface.

Fig. 3C schematically shows a block diagram of an APP lookup apparatus according to another embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in fig. 3C, the APP search apparatus 300 may further include a third detection module 510 and a second response module 520, where:

the third detecting module 510 is configured to detect whether an operator performs an APP open operation on a target icon displayed on a current display interface after maintaining a display state of the icon on the display interface; and

the second response module 520 is configured to respond to the APP open operation and enter the APP interface corresponding to the target icon when detecting that the operator performs the APP open operation on the target icon displayed on the display interface.

As an alternative embodiment, the first response module is further configured to: according to the use frequency of the APP and/or the placing sequence of the icons of the APP on the interface, the icons corresponding to the APPs installed on the terminal equipment emerge on the display interface of the terminal equipment according to a preset presenting mode.

As an alternative embodiment, the first detection module comprises: the device comprises a first detection unit, a second detection unit and a control unit, wherein the first detection unit is used for detecting whether touch operation for searching APP for the terminal equipment exists; and/or the second detection unit is used for detecting whether a gesture for searching the APP for the terminal equipment exists.

Exemplary Medium

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where executable instructions are stored thereon, and when executed by a processing unit, the instructions cause the processing unit to execute an APP search method described in any of the above method embodiments.

In some possible embodiments, aspects of the present invention may also be implemented in the form of a program product, which includes program code for causing a terminal device to perform the steps for use in the APP lookup method according to various exemplary embodiments of the present invention described in the above section "exemplary method" of this specification, when the program product runs on the terminal device, for example, the terminal device may perform step S201 as shown in fig. 2A: detecting whether APP searching operation aiming at the terminal equipment exists or not; step S202: and if the APP searching operation aiming at the terminal equipment is detected, responding to the APP searching operation, and enabling the icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal equipment to appear on the display interface of the terminal equipment according to a preset presenting mode.

The program product may employ any combination of one or more readable media. The readable medium may be a readable signal medium or a readable storage medium. A readable storage medium may be, for example, but not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, or device, or any combination of the foregoing. More specific examples (a non-exhaustive list) of the readable storage medium include: an electrical connection having one or more wires, a portable disk, a hard disk, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or flash memory), an optical fiber, a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing.

As shown in fig. 4, a program product 40 for APP lookup according to an embodiment of the present invention is described, which may employ a portable compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM) and include program code, and may be run on a terminal device, such as a personal computer. However, the program product of the present invention is not limited in this regard and, in the present document, a readable storage medium may be any tangible medium that can contain, or store a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.

A readable signal medium may include a propagated data signal with readable program code embodied therein, for example, in baseband or as part of a carrier wave. Such a propagated data signal may take any of a variety of forms, including, but not limited to, electro-magnetic, optical, or any suitable combination thereof. A readable signal medium may also be any readable medium that is not a readable storage medium and that can communicate, propagate, or transport a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.

Program code embodied on a readable medium may be transmitted using any appropriate medium, including but not limited to wireless, wireline, optical fiber cable, RF, etc., or any suitable combination of the foregoing.

Program code for carrying out operations for aspects of the present invention may be written in any combination of one or more programming languages, including an object oriented programming language such as Java, C + + or the like and conventional procedural programming languages, such as the "C" programming language or similar programming languages. The program code may execute entirely on the user's computing device, partly on the user's device, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the user's computing device and partly on a remote computing device, or entirely on the remote computing device or server. In the case of a remote computing device, the remote computing device may be connected to the user computing device through any kind of network, including a Local Area Network (LAN) or a Wide Area Network (WAN), or may be connected to an external computing device (e.g., through the internet using an internet service provider).

Exemplary computing device

Having described the methods, apparatus and media of the exemplary embodiments of the present invention, a computing device for APP lookup of an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is now described with reference to FIG. 5.

The embodiment of the invention also provides the computing equipment. The computing device includes: a processing unit; and a storage unit having executable instructions stored thereon, the instructions, when executed by the processing unit, causing the processing unit to perform the APP lookup method of any of the above method embodiments.

As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, aspects of the present invention may be embodied as an apparatus, method or program product. Thus, various aspects of the invention may be embodied in the form of: an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment (including firmware, microcode, etc.) or an embodiment combining hardware and software aspects that may all generally be referred to herein as a "circuit," module "or" device.

In some possible embodiments, a computing device according to the present invention may include at least one processing unit, and at least one memory unit. Wherein the storage unit stores program code which, when executed by the processing unit, causes the processing unit to perform the steps in the information presentation methods according to various exemplary embodiments of the present invention described in the above section "exemplary methods" of this specification. For example, the processing unit may perform step S201 as shown in fig. 2A: detecting whether APP searching operation aiming at the terminal equipment exists or not; step S202: and if the APP searching operation aiming at the terminal equipment is detected, responding to the APP searching operation, and enabling the icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal equipment to appear on the display interface of the terminal equipment according to a preset presenting mode.

A computing device 50 for APP lookup according to this embodiment of the invention is described below with reference to fig. 5. The computing device 50 shown in FIG. 5 is only one example and should not impose any limitations on the functionality or scope of use of embodiments of the present invention.

As shown in fig. 5, computing device 50 is embodied in the form of a general purpose computing device. Components of computing device 50 may include, but are not limited to: the at least one processing unit 501, the at least one memory unit 502, and a bus 503 connecting different device components (including the memory unit 502 and the processing unit 501).

Bus 503 represents one or more of any of several types of bus structures, including a memory bus or memory controller, a peripheral bus, an accelerated graphics port, a processor, or a local bus using any of a variety of bus architectures.

The storage unit 502 may include readable media in the form of volatile memory, such as Random Access Memory (RAM)5021 and/or cache memory 5022, and may further include Read Only Memory (ROM) 5023.

The storage unit 502 may also include a program/utility 5025 having a set (at least one) of program modules 5024, such program modules 5024 including, but not limited to: an operating system, one or more application programs, other program modules, and program data, each of which, or some combination thereof, may comprise an implementation of a network environment.

Computing device 50 may also communicate with one or more external devices 504 (e.g., keyboard, pointing device, bluetooth device, etc.), with one or more devices that enable a user to interact with computing device 50, and/or with any devices (e.g., router, modem, etc.) that enable computing device 50 to communicate with one or more other computing devices. This communication may be via an input/output (I/0) interface 505. Moreover, computing device 50 may also communicate with one or more networks (e.g., a Local Area Network (LAN), a Wide Area Network (WAN), and/or a public network, such as the internet) via network adapter 506. As shown, network adapter 506 communicates with the other modules of computing device 50 over bus 503. It should be appreciated that although not shown in the figures, other hardware and/or software modules may be used in conjunction with computing device 50, including but not limited to: microcode, device drivers, redundant processing units, external disk drive arrays, RAID systems, tape drives, and data backup storage systems, among others.

It should be noted that although in the above detailed description several units/modules or sub-units/modules of the APP lookup apparatus are mentioned, this division is merely exemplary and not mandatory. Indeed, the features and functionality of two or more of the units/modules described above may be embodied in one unit/module according to embodiments of the invention. Conversely, the features and functions of one unit/module described above may be further divided into embodiments by a plurality of units/modules.

Moreover, while the operations of the method of the invention are depicted in the drawings in a particular order, this does not require or imply that the operations must be performed in this particular order, or that all of the illustrated operations must be performed, to achieve desirable results. Additionally or alternatively, certain steps may be omitted, multiple steps combined into one step execution, and/or one step broken down into multiple step executions.

While the spirit and principles of the invention have been described with reference to several particular embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, nor is the division of aspects, which is for convenience only as the features in such aspects may not be combined to benefit. The invention is intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

Claims

1. An APP search method, comprising:

detecting whether APP searching operation aiming at the terminal equipment exists or not; and

responding to the APP searching operation if the APP searching operation aiming at the terminal equipment is detected to exist, and leading icons corresponding to all APPs installed on the terminal equipment to appear on a display interface of the terminal equipment according to a preset presenting mode,

wherein, make the icon that APP installed on terminal equipment corresponds:

gradually emerging from the periphery of the screen of the terminal device towards the center thereof in a radial manner; or

Gradually emerging from the center of the screen of the terminal device to the periphery thereof in a radial manner; or

Gradually emerging from a transverse center line of a screen of the terminal device toward upper and lower edges thereof in a transverse manner; or

Gradually emerging from the upper edge and the lower edge of the screen of the terminal equipment to the transverse center line thereof in a transverse mode; or

Gradually emerging from the longitudinal central line of the screen of the terminal equipment to the left and right edges thereof in a longitudinal mode; or

Gradually emerging from the left edge and the right edge of the screen of the terminal equipment to the longitudinal center line thereof in a longitudinal mode;

the emerging is that the icon corresponding to the APP appears on the display interface in a mode similar to the mode that the water ripple gradually comes in and out, the icon which appears first gradually disappears, and the icon which appears later continuously comes in.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

under the condition that the icons gradually emerge from the periphery of the screen of the terminal equipment to the center of the screen in a radial mode, along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge first gradually becomes lighter and the size of the icons gradually becomes smaller;

under the condition that the icons gradually emerge from the center of the screen of the terminal equipment to the periphery of the screen in a radial mode, along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge first gradually becomes lighter and the size of the icons gradually becomes larger;

under the condition of gradually emerging from the transverse central line of the screen of the terminal equipment to the upper edge and the lower edge thereof in a transverse mode, along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge firstly becomes gradually lighter and the size of the icons keeps unchanged;

under the condition of gradually emerging from the upper edge and the lower edge of the screen of the terminal equipment to the transverse center line thereof in a transverse mode, along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge firstly becomes gradually lighter and the size of the icons keeps unchanged;

under the condition of gradually emerging from the longitudinal central line of the screen of the terminal equipment to the left and right edges thereof in a longitudinal mode, along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge first is gradually lightened, and the size of the icons is kept unchanged;

under the condition of gradually emerging from the left edge and the right edge of the screen of the terminal equipment to the longitudinal center line thereof in a longitudinal mode, along with the continuous emergence of the icons, the color of the icons which emerge first is gradually lightened, and the size of the icons is kept unchanged.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal device is caused to:

gradually emerging in a circular or elliptical or any multiple deformation form from the periphery to the center of the screen of the terminal device in a radial manner; or

Gradually emerges in a radial manner from the center of the screen of the terminal device towards its periphery in the form of a circle or an ellipse or any number of variants.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

under the condition that the terminal equipment is unlocked, enabling an icon corresponding to an APP installed on the terminal equipment to appear on an interface currently displayed by the terminal equipment according to the preset presentation mode; or

And under the condition that the terminal equipment is not unlocked, firstly enabling the terminal equipment to execute unlocking operation, and then enabling the icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal equipment to appear on the interface displayed after the terminal equipment is unlocked according to the preset presentation mode.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein in the process of enabling the icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal device to appear on the display interface of the terminal device according to a preset presentation mode:

detecting whether an operation body stops executing the APP searching operation on the terminal equipment or not; and

and if the operation body is detected to stop executing the APP searching operation on the terminal equipment, stopping the icon emerging action of the terminal equipment and keeping the display state of the icon on the current display interface.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the method further comprises:

after the display state of the icon on the current display interface is maintained, whether the operation body executes APP opening operation on the target icon displayed on the display interface is detected; and

and if the fact that the operation body executes the APP opening operation on the target icon displayed on the display interface is detected, responding to the APP opening operation, and entering an APP interface corresponding to the target icon.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

according to the use frequency of the APP and/or the placing sequence of the icons of the APP on the interface, the icons corresponding to the APPs installed on the terminal equipment are enabled to appear on the display interface of the terminal equipment according to a preset presenting mode.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting whether there is an APP lookup operation for a terminal device comprises:

detecting whether touch operation for searching APP exists for the terminal equipment; and/or

Whether a gesture for finding the APP aiming at the terminal equipment exists is detected.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the APP lookup method further comprises:

monitoring the movement of a user finger on a screen of the terminal equipment to obtain four attribute values: real-time offset and a moving speed value on an X axis of a moving coordinate and real-time offset and a moving speed value on a Y axis of the moving coordinate;

and through the calculation of the four attribute values, animation combination of transparency, zooming and displacement change is carried out on each icon on the desktop of the terminal equipment, so that the effects of icon appearance and gradual color fading are realized.

10. An APP lookup apparatus comprising:

the first detection module is used for detecting whether APP searching operation aiming at the terminal equipment exists or not; and

a first response module, configured to, when it is detected that the APP search operation for the terminal device exists, respond to the APP search operation and cause icons corresponding to all APPs installed on the terminal device to appear on a display interface of the terminal device according to a predetermined presentation manner,

wherein the first response module is further configured to enable an icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal device to:

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the first response module is further configured to:

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the first response module is further configured to cause the icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal device to:

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the first response module comprises:

the first response unit is used for enabling an icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal equipment to appear on an interface currently displayed by the terminal equipment according to the preset presentation mode under the condition that the terminal equipment is unlocked; or

And the second response unit is used for firstly enabling the terminal equipment to execute unlocking operation under the condition that the terminal equipment is not unlocked, and then enabling the icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal equipment to appear on the interface displayed after the terminal equipment is unlocked according to the preset presentation mode.

14. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the apparatus further comprises:

the second detection module is used for detecting whether an operation body stops executing the APP searching operation on the terminal equipment or not in the process of enabling an icon corresponding to the APP installed on the terminal equipment to appear on a display interface of the terminal equipment according to a preset presentation mode; and

and the control module is used for stopping the icon emergence action of the terminal equipment and keeping the display state of the icon on the current display interface under the condition that the operation body is detected to stop executing the APP searching operation on the terminal equipment.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the apparatus further comprises:

the third detection module is used for detecting whether the operation body executes APP opening operation on a target icon displayed on the display interface after the display state of the icon on the current display interface is maintained; and

and the second response module is used for responding to the APP opening operation and entering the APP interface corresponding to the target icon under the condition that the APP opening operation of the operating body on the target icon displayed on the display interface is detected.

16. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the first response module is further configured to:

17. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the first detection module comprises:

the device comprises a first detection unit, a second detection unit and a control unit, wherein the first detection unit is used for detecting whether touch operation for searching APP for the terminal equipment exists; and/or

And the second detection unit is used for detecting whether a gesture for searching the APP aiming at the terminal equipment exists.

18. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the APP lookup apparatus further comprises:

the monitoring module is used for monitoring the movement of the finger of the user on the screen of the terminal equipment to obtain four attribute values: real-time offset and a moving speed value on an X axis of a moving coordinate and real-time offset and a moving speed value on a Y axis of the moving coordinate;

and the combination module is used for carrying out animation combination of transparency, scaling and displacement change on each icon on the desktop of the terminal equipment through calculation of the four attribute values, so that the effects of icon appearance and gradual color fading are realized.

19. A computer readable storage medium having stored thereon executable instructions which, when executed by a processing unit, cause the processing unit to perform the APP lookup method of any one of claims 1-9.

20. A computing device, comprising:

a processing unit; and

a memory unit having stored thereon executable instructions which, when executed by the processing unit, cause the processing unit to perform the APP lookup method of any one of claims 1-9.