CN108491129B

CN108491129B - Application program management method and terminal

Info

Publication number: CN108491129B
Application number: CN201810219926.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 顾瀚之
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2018-03-16
Filing date: 2018-03-16
Publication date: 2020-09-29
Anticipated expiration: 2038-03-16
Also published as: CN108491129A

Abstract

The invention provides an application program management method and a terminal, wherein the application program management method comprises the following steps: receiving a first input of a user; responding to the first input, displaying a target control, wherein N icons are displayed on the target control, N is a positive integer, and the N icons are icons of application programs running in a terminal background; receiving a second input of the user on a target icon of the N icons; and responding to the second input, and executing control operation corresponding to the second input on the target icon. According to the scheme, the background application icons can be displayed on the terminal display screen on the premise of not using an entity or virtual program management key, so that the background application programs can be managed quickly and conveniently by means of user input, operation is simplified, and time is saved.

Description

Application program management method and terminal

Technical Field

The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of communication, in particular to an application program management method and a terminal.

Background

Currently, when a user manages a background application program in a terminal, the method generally adopted is as follows: firstly, a corresponding background application program is displayed on a terminal interface by clicking or long-pressing an entity program management key below a screen; and then, managing the background application program according to the user operation, such as killing the process, opening, locking and the like.

With the development of terminal technology, especially the development of full-screen terminals and the like, the existing terminals have begun to virtually generate a row of keys on a screen without setting physical keys so as to manage background applications and the like. However, a row of keys is virtually simulated on the screen, which affects the display content of the screen, so that the display area of the screen becomes smaller, and the viewing experience of a user is affected.

Because the existing background application program management method is usually realized by means of an entity or virtual program management key, the operation is complicated and the time is wasted.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides an application program management method and a terminal, and aims to solve the problems that the existing background application program management method is complicated in operation and time-consuming.

In order to solve the technical problem, the invention is realized as follows:

in a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides an application management method, applied to a terminal, including:

receiving a first input of a user;

in response to the first input, displaying a target control on which N icons are displayed;

receiving a second input of the user on a target icon of the N icons;

responding to the second input, and executing a control operation corresponding to the second input on the target icon;

and N is a positive integer, and the N icons are icons of application programs running in the background of the terminal.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, including:

the first receiving module is used for receiving a first input of a user;

a first display module, configured to display a target control in response to the first input, where N icons are displayed on the target control;

a second receiving module, configured to receive a second input of the user on a target icon of the N icons;

the execution module is used for responding to the second input and executing control operation corresponding to the second input on the target icon;

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, including a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored on the memory and operable on the processor, where the computer program, when executed by the processor, implements the steps of the application management method.

In a fourth aspect, the embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, where the computer program, when executed by a processor, implements the steps of the application management method.

In the embodiment of the invention, by receiving a first input of a user, responding to the first input, displaying a target control, displaying N icons on the target control, wherein N is a positive integer, and the N icons are icons of an application program running in a terminal background, receiving a second input of the user on a target icon in the N icons, responding to the second input, executing a control operation corresponding to the second input on the target icon, and displaying a background application icon on a terminal display screen on the premise of not using an entity or virtual program management key, so that the background application program is managed quickly and conveniently by means of the user input, the operation is simplified, and the time is saved.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of an application management method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a shaped screen according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a first input according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a target control according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating updating background application icons according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6A is a schematic display diagram of a background application icon before locking according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6B is a diagram illustrating a display of a locked background application icon according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7A is a schematic display diagram of a background application icon before cleaning according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7B is a schematic display diagram of cleaned background application icons according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8A is a second illustration showing a background application icon before cleaning according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8B is a second schematic view illustrating the cleaned background application icons according to the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 10 is a second schematic structural diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings required to be used in the embodiments of the present invention will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings based on these drawings without inventive labor.

Referring to fig. 1, an embodiment of the present invention provides an application management method, applied to a terminal, including the following steps:

step 101: a first input is received from a user.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the first input may be a voice input, or a touch input on a display screen of the terminal. Specifically, step 101 may include:

a first input of a user in a display area of a display screen of a terminal is received.

The receiving of the first input of the user in the display area of the terminal display screen may specifically be: first input of a user in a first display area and/or a second display area of a terminal display screen is received. In specific implementation, the terminal display screen can be a special-shaped screen, and correspondingly, the first display area and the second display area are two areas separated from each other in the top end area of the special-shaped screen. Therefore, input is carried out in the first display area or the second display area of the special-shaped screen, input operation of a user can be diversified, input of the user is facilitated, and input operation is simplified.

For example, the structure of a terminal shaped screen can be seen in fig. 2, but not limited thereto. In fig. 2, the terminal, that is, the special-shaped screen of the mobile phone, may be referred to as a screen with a bang area, the bang area is specifically a non-display area in which the top end of the screen is recessed and which is used for setting a camera, and the like, and two side areas of the bang area, that is, the display area a and the display area B in fig. 2, correspond to the first display area and the second display area, and may be generally referred to as an ear area. It is noted that, in case of receiving a first input from a user at the first display area and/or the second display area of the terminal display screen, the first display area or the second display area may further comprise a top area in which the shaped screen is recessed, i.e. a display area near the bottom end of the bang area.

In particular implementations, the first input may include (but is not limited to) at least one of:

multi-finger sliding operation of a user in the first display area and the second display area; for example, the user can simultaneously press the first display area and the second display area and then simultaneously slide downwards; or, the user can simultaneously press the first display area and the second display area for a preset time and then simultaneously slide downwards, and the like;

pressing operations of the user in the first display area and the second display area simultaneously;

touch operation of a user in the first display area or the second display area; for example, the user clicks on the first display area or the second display area; or, the user presses the first display area (or the second display area) and slides downwards; or, the user presses the first display area (or the second display area) for a preset time and then slides downwards;

the user slides from the first display area to the second display area on the display screen of the terminal; and so on.

For example, referring to fig. 2 and 3, the mobile phone screen in fig. 2 and 3 is an odd-shaped screen, and the corresponding first input is: and the user clicks the display area A through a finger and slides an arc-shaped track E to the display area B. When a user clicks the special-shaped screen through a finger, the coordinate Pstart of the click point of the finger can be firstly obtained, then whether the click point is in the two display areas or not is judged according to the Pstart, and whether the click point is in the display area A or the display area B is judged, as shown in fig. 2, the click point of the user is in the display area A. After a user clicks one display area through a finger, an arc-shaped track can be slid to the other display area, at the moment, the mobile phone can record corresponding track data L and a terminal point coordinate Pend, and judges whether the terminal point is in a display area (an A display area or a B display area) different from a click point (starting point) or not according to the Pend; if not, no response is made; if so, in response to the user's input, the user's input slides from the A display area to the B display area as shown in FIG. 3.

Step 102: and responding to the first input, displaying a target control, and displaying N icons on the target control.

In the embodiment of the invention, N is a positive integer, and N icons are icons of application programs running in a terminal background. The target control may be a linear control, such as a linear arc track, a linear track, etc., and the linear width of the target control may be, for example, 1 to 5 cm. Further target controls may also be striped. Further, the target control may also be a touch line (or called a control line or a control).

Optionally, the target control may be a preset control, such as an arc-shaped track, a straight-line track, a square track, and the like that are bilaterally symmetric, or a control generated based on an operation track corresponding to the first input, and the target control is displayed between the first display area and the second display area, for example, when the first input is a situation where a user slides from the first display area to the second display area on the terminal display screen, the target control may be a control generated by a sliding track corresponding to the first input.

It should be noted that, when step 102 is executed, the target control and the N icons displayed on the target control may be displayed simultaneously, or may be displayed sequentially, for example, the target control is displayed first, and then the N icons are displayed on the target control.

In a specific implementation, the value of N may be preset, for example, 2, 3, 4, etc. Icons displayed from left to right (or from right to left) on the target space can be sequentially arranged according to the size sequence of the time interval from the switching to the background running of the corresponding application program to the current time, and the size sequence can be from large to small or from small to large. If the number M of the application programs running in the background of the terminal does not reach N, only icons of the M application programs running in the background can be displayed on the target control. Further, under the condition that the number of icons is not preset, if the length of the target control is L, the width of the icon is W, and the distance between two adjacent icons is S, the number Num of the icons displayed on the target control may be: num is L/(W + S).

Therefore, the icons are displayed on the target control instead of being directly displayed on the terminal display screen, so that the user can conveniently view the icons, the icons can be prevented from being displayed in disorder, and the attractiveness of a display interface is enhanced.

Step 103: a second input by the user on a target icon of the N icons is received.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the second input may include at least one of (but not limited to):

clicking on the target icon by the user;

dragging operation of a user on the target icon; for example, the target icon is dragged downwards, or the target icon is dragged to a preset area, etc.;

dragging the target icon in a preset direction after the user presses the target icon for a preset time; and so on.

Step 104: and responding to the second input, and executing a control operation corresponding to the second input on the target icon.

The control operation may be an operation of clearing the icon display, an operation of switching the application program corresponding to the target icon, an operation of uninstalling the application program corresponding to the target icon, or the like.

According to the application program management method, the first input of a user is received, the target control is displayed in response to the first input, N icons are displayed on the target control, N is a positive integer, the N icons are icons of an application program running in a terminal background, the second input of the user on the target icon in the N icons is received, the control operation corresponding to the second input is executed on the target icon in response to the second input, the background application icon can be displayed on the terminal display screen on the premise of not using an entity or virtual program management key, and therefore the background application program can be managed quickly and conveniently through the user input, operation is simplified, and time is saved.

For example, referring to fig. 4, if the first input of the user is to slide an arc-shaped track E to the B display area after clicking the a display area (as shown in fig. 2 and 3), after receiving the first input of the user, the mobile phone may display a target control between the a display area and the B display area, such as the

icons

1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the background application on the semicircular tracks C, C in fig. 4.

In this embodiment of the present invention, after step 101, the method may further include:

displaying a program cleaning identifier on a terminal display screen;

the program cleaning identifier is used for cleaning the process of the application program running in the background of the terminal, and the program cleaning identifier can be located on a preset side edge of the target control. For example, referring again to FIG. 4, the program clean-up flag may be one

And F, located above the display area of the target control.

Further, after displaying the program cleaning identifier, the method may further include:

receiving a third input of the user on the program cleaning identifier;

and responding to the third input, cleaning the progress of the application program running in the background of the terminal, and cleaning the N icons.

After receiving the third input, the terminal can call a one-key cleaning function to automatically clean the processes of all application programs running in the background of the terminal, and after cleaning is finished, the terminal automatically exits the application management interface and returns to the interface before entering the application management interface. The clearing N icons is specifically clearing the display of N icons on the target space. In particular implementations, the third input may include (but is not limited to) at least one of:

clicking operation of a user on the program cleaning identifier;

dragging operation of a user on the program cleaning identifier; for example, the program cleaning identifier is dragged downwards, or the program cleaning identifier is dragged to a preset area, etc.;

the user presses the program cleaning identifier for preset time and then drags the program cleaning identifier in a preset direction; and so on.

Therefore, by means of the input of the program cleaning identifier, a user can conveniently clean the process of the application program running in the background of the terminal, and the operation is simplified.

In this embodiment of the present invention, after step 102, the method may further include:

receiving a fourth input of the user on the target control, wherein the fourth input is a sliding operation of the user on the target control;

in response to a fourth input, the icon displayed on the target control is updated.

Further, the process of updating the icon displayed on the target control may be:

controlling the N icons to move on the target control so as to control at least one icon of the N icons to move out of the target control to a preset storage area from the target control at a first end of the target control, and control at least one icon of the preset storage area to move into the target control from the preset storage area at a second end of the target control;

the icons in the preset storage area are invisible, and the icons in the preset storage area are icons of application programs running in the background of the terminal.

It should be noted that, if the number of applications running in the background is large, and the length of the target control is short, all background application icons cannot be displayed, and more background application icons can be displayed by sliding the target control with a finger. For example, if the sliding length of the finger of the user along the target control is Δ L, the width of the icon is W, and the distance between two adjacent icons is S, when Δ L ≧ (W + S)/2, the displayed background application icon may be updated, for example, the icon is moved along the sliding direction of the finger; and when DeltaL < (W + S)/2, the displayed icon on the target space is still maintained.

Therefore, by means of input of the target control, the icon displayed on the target control can be updated, and a user can know more background application programs conveniently.

For example, referring to fig. 4 and 5, in fig. 4, the target control is a semicircular track C located below the bang area of the shaped screen of the mobile phone, and

icons

1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 are displayed on C; when receiving an input that the user slides along C from right to left (i.e., arrow direction in fig. 5), the mobile phone may update the icons displayed on C, as shown in fig. 5, that is, the control icon moves on C along the sliding direction (i.e., arrow direction), moves the icon 1 at the left end of C out of C to the preset storage area, and moves the icon 6 in the preset storage area onto C from the preset storage area, where the updated icons displayed on C are 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the second input may be an operation of dragging the target icon from a first position on the target control to a first preset area, where the first preset area may be preset, for example, an area between the target control and the top of the display screen. Correspondingly, step 104 may include:

controlling the target icon to recover to a first position from the first preset area for displaying, and displaying a program locking identifier on the target icon;

and the program locking identifier is used for indicating that the application program corresponding to the target icon is locked.

Further, after step 103, the method may further include:

displaying a program locking identifier on a terminal display screen; the display area of the program locking identifier can be a preset side edge of the target control, such as an upper area of the target control;

wherein the program lock flag is used to indicate that the user's current input is an input for locking the application program.

It should be noted that the program lock flag can be one

And (4) marking, as shown in fig. 6A and 6B. After an application program running in a terminal background is locked, when input of a user for cleaning the background application program is received, the terminal cannot clean the locked background application program.

Therefore, by locking the background application program, the user can conveniently and selectively clean the background application program.

For example, referring to fig. 6A and 6B, fig. 6A is a schematic display diagram of a background application icon before being locked according to an embodiment of the present invention, and fig. 6B is a schematic display diagram of a background application icon after being locked according to an embodiment of the present invention. In fig. 6A, the target control is a semicircular track C located below the mobile phone special-shaped screen bang area, and

icons

2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are displayed on C; when receiving the user drags the icon 3 inwards to the area between the C and the top end of the special-shaped screenI.e. dragging the icon 3 to the area where the dotted line is located in fig. 6A, the mobile phone may display in the upper display area of C

Mark G, as shown in FIG. 6A, and after the user stops inputting, control icon 3 to return to the original position on C and display on icon 3

And G, locking the application program corresponding to the icon 3, as shown in FIG. 6B. If the user releases the finger when the icon 3 is not dragged to the preset area, that is, the user does not input the operation of dragging the icon 3 to the preset area, and only drags the icon 3, the icon 3 will be restored to the initial position, but the locking mark will not be displayed thereon, and the application program corresponding to the icon 3 will not be locked.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the second input may also be an operation of dragging the target icon from the first position on the target control to a second preset area, where the second preset area may be preset, for example, an area between the target control and the bottom end of the display screen. Correspondingly, step 104 may include:

clearing a target icon from the target control, clearing the progress of an application program corresponding to the target icon, and updating and displaying one icon in a preset storage area on the target control;

the icons in the preset storage area are invisible, and the icons in the preset storage area are icons of application programs running in the background of the terminal. When the icon on the target control is updated and displayed, after the display of the target icon is cleared, the icon in a preset direction (such as a left direction or a right direction) adjacent to the target icon is updated and displayed at the original display position of the target icon, that is, the icon on the target control is moved in a direction opposite to the preset direction, and the icon in the preset storage area is updated and displayed at the last vacant display position of the target control.

Therefore, the process of the application program corresponding to the target icon can be cleaned through inputting the target icon, and a user can conveniently and quickly clean the process of the single background application program.

For example, referring to fig. 7A and 7B, fig. 7A is a schematic display diagram of a background application icon before cleaning according to an embodiment of the present invention, and fig. 7B is a schematic display diagram of a background application icon after cleaning according to an embodiment of the present invention. In fig. 7A, the target control is a semicircular track C located below the mobile phone shaped screen bang area, and

icons

2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are displayed on C; when receiving an input that a user drags the icon 3 to an area between the C and the bottom end of the special-shaped screen, for example, the icon 3 is dragged to an area where the dotted line in fig. 7A is located, the mobile phone may clear the display of the icon 3 on the C, clear the progress of the application program corresponding to the icon 3, and after the icon 3 is cleared, update and display the icon 4 adjacent to the icon 3 at the original display position of the icon 3, update and display the icon 5 adjacent to the icon 4 at the original display position of the icon 4, that is, move the icon on the C along the arrow direction in fig. 7B, and so on, and finally update and display the icon 7 in the preset storage area at the original display position of the icon 6, as shown in fig. 7B. If the user does not drag the icon 3 to the preset area, the icon 3 will be restored to the initial position and will not be cleared.

In the embodiment of the present invention, step 104 may include:

and controlling the application program corresponding to the target icon to be switched to the terminal foreground for operation.

In this case, the second input may include (but is not limited to) at least one of:

clicking on the target icon by the user;

Therefore, the corresponding background application program can be quickly switched to the foreground of the terminal to run by inputting the target icon by the user.

In this embodiment of the present invention, after step 103, the method may further include:

displaying a program uninstalling identifier on a terminal display screen; the program uninstall flag is used to indicate that the user's current input is input for uninstalling the application program.

Correspondingly, step 104 may include:

and clearing the target icon from the target control, and unloading the application program corresponding to the target icon.

It should be noted that the program uninstall flag can be a garbage can

The identifier is shown in fig. 8A and 8B, and the program uninstall identifier may be located in a preset side area of the target control, such as the upper display area of the target control. After the application program corresponding to the target icon is unloaded, the display of the target icon on the target control can be eliminated, the icon in the preset direction (such as the left direction or the right direction) adjacent to the target icon is updated and displayed at the original display position of the target icon, namely, the icon on the target control is moved in the direction opposite to the preset direction, and the icon in the preset storage area is updated and displayed at the last vacant display position of the target control.

In order to prevent the user from uninstalling the application program by mistake, the options of 'uninstall' and 'cancel' can be displayed on the display screen of the terminal in the process of uninstalling the application program, so that the user can determine whether to perform uninstalling processing.

Therefore, the unloading of the background application program can be conveniently realized through the input of the user, and the operation is simplified.

For example, referring to fig. 8A and 8B, fig. 8A is a schematic display diagram of a background application icon before uninstalling according to an embodiment of the present invention, and fig. 8B is a schematic display diagram of a background application icon after uninstalling according to an embodiment of the present invention. In fig. 8A, the target control is a semicircular track C located below the mobile phone shaped screen bang area, and

icons

2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are displayed on C; when receiving an input that the user drags the icon 3 to the region between the C and the top of the special-shaped screen, that is, an input that the icon 3 is dragged to the region where the dotted line is located in fig. 8A, the mobile phone can display the icon in the upper display region of the C

An identifier H, as shown in fig. 8A, and after the user stops inputting, options for indicating whether to uninstall the application, such as option I "uninstall" and option J "cancel" in fig. 8B, are displayed on the display screen; when receiving the input of clicking the 'uninstall' option I by the user, the mobile phone can clear the display of the icon 3 on the C and uninstall the application program corresponding to the icon 3. After the display of the icon 3 is cleared, the icon 4 adjacent to the icon 3 is updated and displayed at the original display position of the icon 3, the icon 5 adjacent to the icon 4 is updated and displayed at the original display position of the icon 4, that is, the icon on the C is moved along the arrow direction in fig. 7B, and so on, and finally, an icon in the preset storage area is updated and displayed at the original display position of the icon 6.

According to the application program management method, the target control is displayed through the input operation of the user, the N icons are displayed on the target control, the control operation is carried out on the target icons on the target control, the user can conveniently and quickly switch the corresponding background application programs to the foreground for display, clear the processes of all or a single background application program, lock the corresponding background application program, unload the corresponding background application program and the like, the operation is simplified, and the time is saved.

The above embodiment describes the application management method of the present invention, and a terminal corresponding to the application management method of the present invention will be described with reference to the embodiment and the drawings.

Referring to fig. 9, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, including

A first receiving module 91, configured to receive a first input of a user;

a first display module 92, configured to display a target control in response to the first input, where N icons are displayed on the target control;

a second receiving module 93, configured to receive a second input of the user on a target icon of the N icons;

the execution module 94 is configured to, in response to the second input, execute a control operation corresponding to the second input on the target icon;

According to the terminal, the target control is displayed in response to the first input by receiving the first input of a user, the N icons are displayed on the target control, the N is a positive integer, the N icons are icons of an application program running in a terminal background, the second input of the user on the target icon in the N icons is received, the control operation corresponding to the second input is executed on the target icon in response to the second input, the background application icon can be displayed on the terminal display screen on the premise of not using an entity or virtual program management key, and therefore the background application program can be managed quickly and conveniently by means of the user input, operation is simplified, and time is saved.

Optionally, the first receiving module 91 is specifically configured to:

and receiving a first input of a user in a first display area and/or a second display area of a display area of the terminal display screen.

Optionally, the terminal display screen is a special-shaped screen, and the first display area and the second display area are two areas separated from each other in a top end area of the special-shaped screen.

Optionally, the target control is a control generated based on an operation track corresponding to the first input; the target control is displayed between the first display area and the second display area.

Optionally, the terminal further includes:

the second display module is used for displaying a preset program cleaning identifier on a terminal display screen;

the program cleaning identifier is used for cleaning the process of the application program running in the background of the terminal.

Optionally, the terminal further includes:

the fourth receiving module is used for receiving a third input of the user on the program cleaning identifier;

and the first processing module is used for responding to the third input, cleaning the progress of the application program running in the background of the terminal and cleaning the N icons.

Optionally, the terminal further includes:

a third receiving module, configured to receive a fourth input of the user on the target control, where the fourth input is a sliding operation of the user on the target control;

and the second processing module is used for responding to the fourth input and updating the icon displayed on the target control.

Optionally, the second processing module is specifically configured to:

controlling the N icons to move on the target control so as to control at least one icon of the N icons to move out of the target control to a preset storage area at a first end of the target control, and control at least one icon of the preset storage area to move into the target control from the preset storage area at a second end of the target control;

Optionally, the second input is an operation of dragging the target icon from a first position on the target control to a first preset area;

the execution module 94 is specifically configured to:

controlling the target icon to recover to the first position from the first preset area for displaying, and displaying a program locking identifier on the target icon;

the program locking identifier is used for indicating that the application program corresponding to the target icon is locked.

Optionally, the terminal further includes:

the third display module is used for displaying the program locking identification on the terminal display screen;

wherein the program locking identifier is used for indicating that the current input of the user is the input for locking the application program.

Optionally, the second input is an operation of dragging the target icon from a first position on the target control to a second preset area;

the execution module 94 is specifically configured to:

clearing the target icon from the target control, clearing the progress of the application program corresponding to the target icon, and updating and displaying one icon in a preset storage area on the target control;

Optionally, the executing module 94 is specifically configured to:

Optionally, the terminal further includes:

the fourth display module is used for displaying the program uninstalling identifier on the terminal display screen;

the execution module 94 is specifically configured to:

clearing the target icon from the target control, and unloading the application program corresponding to the target icon;

wherein the program uninstall identifier is used for indicating that the current input of the user is the input for uninstalling the application program.

Optionally, the target control is a linear control.

In addition, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, including a processor, a memory, and a computer program stored in the memory and capable of running on the processor, where the computer program, when executed by the processor, implements each process of the foregoing application management method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect, and details are not repeated here to avoid repetition.

Specifically, fig. 10 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a terminal for implementing various embodiments of the present invention, where the terminal 1000 includes, but is not limited to: a radio frequency unit 1001, a network module 1002, an audio output unit 1003, an input unit 1004, a sensor 1005, a display unit 1006, a user input unit 1007, an interface unit 1008, a memory 1009, a processor 1010, and a power supply 1011. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the terminal configuration shown in fig. 10 is not intended to be limiting, and that the 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 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 user input unit 1007 is used for receiving a first input of a user;

a processor 1010 configured to display a target control in response to the first input, the target control having N icons displayed thereon;

a user input unit 1007, further configured to receive a second input of the user on a target icon of the N icons;

the processor 1010 is further configured to respond to the second input, and execute a control operation corresponding to the second input on the target icon;

According to the terminal 1000 of the embodiment of the invention, the first input of the user is received, the target control is displayed in response to the first input, the N icons are displayed on the target control, N is a positive integer, the N icons are icons of the application program running in the background of the terminal, the second input of the user on the target icon of the N icons is received, the control operation corresponding to the second input is executed on the target icon in response to the second input, and the background application icon can be displayed on the display screen of the terminal on the premise of not using an entity or virtual program management key, so that the background application program can be managed quickly and conveniently by means of the user input, the operation is simplified, and the time is saved.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the radio frequency unit 1001 may be used for receiving and sending signals during a message transmission or a call, and specifically, receives downlink data from a base station and then processes the received downlink data to the processor 1010; in addition, the uplink data is transmitted to the base station. In general, radio frequency unit 1001 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. Further, the radio frequency unit 1001 may also communicate with a network and other devices through a wireless communication system.

The terminal provides the user with wireless broadband internet access through the network module 1002, such as helping the user send and receive e-mails, browse webpages, access streaming media, and the like.

The audio output unit 1003 may convert audio data received by the radio frequency unit 1001 or the network module 1002 or stored in the memory 1009 into an audio signal and output as sound. Also, the audio output unit 1003 can provide audio output (e.g., a call signal reception sound, a message reception sound, etc.) related to a specific function performed by the terminal 1000. The audio output unit 1003 includes a speaker, a buzzer, a receiver, and the like.

The input unit 1004 is used to receive an audio or video signal. The input Unit 1004 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 10041 and a microphone 10042, the Graphics processor 10041 Processing image data of still pictures or video obtained by an image capturing device (such as a camera) in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The processed image frames may be displayed on the display unit 1006. The image frames processed by the graphic processor 10041 may be stored in the memory 1009 (or other storage medium) or transmitted via the radio frequency unit 1001 or the network module 1002. The microphone 10042 can receive sound and can process such sound 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 1001 in case of a phone call mode.

Terminal 1000 can also include at least one sensor 1005 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 10061 according to the brightness of ambient light, and a proximity sensor that can turn off the display panel 10061 and/or a backlight when the terminal 1000 moves 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 terminal posture (such as horizontal and vertical screen switching, related games, magnetometer posture calibration), vibration identification related functions (such as pedometer, tapping), and the like; the sensors 1005 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 will not be described in detail herein.

The display unit 1006 is used to display information input by the user or information provided to the user. The Display unit 1006 may include a Display panel 10061, and the Display panel 10061 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 1007 may be used to receive input numeric or character information and generate key signal inputs related to user settings and function control of the terminal. Specifically, the user input unit 1007 includes a touch panel 10071 and other input devices 10072. The touch panel 10071, also referred to as a touch screen, may collect touch operations by a user on or near the touch panel 10071 (e.g., operations by a user on or near the touch panel 10071 using a finger, a stylus, or any other suitable object or attachment). The touch panel 10071 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 1010, and receives and executes commands sent by the processor 1010. In addition, the touch panel 10071 may be implemented by various types, such as a resistive type, a capacitive type, an infrared ray, and a surface acoustic wave. In addition to the touch panel 10071, the user input unit 1007 can include other input devices 10072. Specifically, the other input devices 10072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (such as volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a track ball, a mouse, and a joystick, which are not described herein again.

Further, the touch panel 10071 can be overlaid on the display panel 10061, and when the touch panel 10071 detects a touch operation thereon or nearby, the touch operation is transmitted to the processor 1010 to determine the type of the touch event, and then the processor 1010 provides a corresponding visual output on the display panel 10061 according to the type of the touch event. Although in fig. 10, the touch panel 10071 and the display panel 10061 are two independent components for implementing the input and output functions of the terminal, in some embodiments, the touch panel 10071 and the display panel 10061 may be integrated for implementing the input and output functions of the terminal, which is not limited herein.

Interface unit 1008 is an interface for connecting an external device to terminal 1000. 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. Interface unit 1008 can 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 terminal 1000 or can be used to transmit data between terminal 1000 and external devices.

The memory 1009 may be used to store software programs as well as various data. The memory 1009 may mainly include a program storage area and a data storage area, wherein the program storage area may store an operating system, an application program required by at least one function (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, and the like), 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 1009 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 1010 is a control center of the terminal, connects various parts of the entire terminal using various interfaces and lines, and performs various functions of the terminal and processes data by operating or executing software programs and/or modules stored in the memory 1009 and calling data stored in the memory 1009, thereby integrally monitoring the terminal. Processor 1010 may include one or more processing units; preferably, the processor 1010 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 will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into processor 1010.

Terminal 1000 can also include a power supply 1011 (e.g., a battery) for powering the various components, and preferably, power supply 1011 can be logically coupled to processor 1010 through a power management system that provides management of charging, discharging, and power consumption.

In addition, terminal 1000 can also include some functional modules not shown, which are not described herein.

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 above-mentioned application management method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not repeated here. The computer-readable storage medium is, for example, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk.

It should be noted that, in this document, 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.

Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art will clearly understand that the method of the above embodiments can be implemented by software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and certainly can also be implemented by hardware, but in many cases, the former is a better implementation manner. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) and includes instructions for enabling a terminal (such as a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device) to execute the method according to the embodiments of the present invention.

While the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments, which are illustrative and not restrictive, and it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications can be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Claims

1. An application management method applied to a terminal is characterized by comprising the following steps:

receiving a first input of a user;

receiving a second input of the user on a target icon of the N icons;

the N icons are icons of application programs running in a terminal background;

the receiving a first input of a user comprises:

receiving a first input of a user in a display area of a display screen of the terminal;

the receiving a first input of a user in a display area of a display screen of the terminal comprises the following steps:

receiving first input of a user in a first display area and a second display area of a terminal display screen;

the terminal display screen is a special-shaped screen, and the first display area and the second display area are two areas separated from each other in the top end area of the special-shaped screen;

the target control is a control generated based on an operation track corresponding to the first input; the target control is displayed between the first display area and the second display area;

after the receiving a second input by the user on a target icon of the N icons, the method further comprises:

displaying a program uninstalling identifier on a terminal display screen;

the executing the control operation corresponding to the second input on the target icon includes:

2. The method of claim 1, wherein after receiving the first input from the user, the method further comprises:

displaying a program cleaning identifier on a terminal display screen;

3. The method of claim 2, wherein after displaying the program cleaning identifier on the terminal display screen, the method further comprises:

receiving a third input of the user on the program cleaning identifier;

4. The method of claim 1, wherein in response to the first input, displaying a target control, wherein after displaying N icons on the target control, the method further comprises:

updating the icon displayed on the target control in response to the fourth input.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the updating the icon displayed on the target control comprises:

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the second input is an operation of dragging the target icon from a first position on the target control to a first preset area;

7. The method of claim 1, wherein after receiving a second input by the user on a target icon of the N icons, the method further comprises:

displaying a program locking identifier on a terminal display screen;

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the second input is an operation of dragging the target icon from a first position on the target control to a second preset area;

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the performing the control operation corresponding to the second input on the target icon comprises:

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the target control is a line type control.

11. A terminal, comprising:

the first receiving module is used for receiving a first input of a user;

the N icons are icons of application programs running in a terminal background;

the first receiving module is specifically configured to:

the execution module is specifically configured to:

12. The terminal of claim 11, wherein the terminal further comprises:

13. The terminal of claim 12, wherein the terminal further comprises:

14. The terminal of claim 11, wherein the terminal further comprises:

15. The terminal according to claim 14, wherein the second processing module is specifically configured to:

16. The terminal of claim 11, wherein the second input is an operation of dragging the target icon from a first position on the target control to a first preset area;

the execution module is specifically configured to:

17. The terminal of claim 11, wherein the terminal further comprises:

18. The terminal of claim 11, wherein the second input is an operation of dragging the target icon from a first position on the target control to a second preset area;

the execution module is specifically configured to:

19. The terminal of claim 11, wherein the execution module is specifically configured to:

20. The terminal of claim 11, wherein the target control is a line type control.

21. A computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, which, when being executed by a processor, carries out the steps of the application management method according to any one of claims 1 to 10.