CN110209479A

CN110209479A - Method and device for switching application programs, terminal equipment and storage medium

Info

Publication number: CN110209479A
Application number: CN201910405051.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 侯坚波
Original assignee: Gree Electric Appliances Inc of Zhuhai
Current assignee: Gree Electric Appliances Inc of Zhuhai
Priority date: 2019-05-16
Filing date: 2019-05-16
Publication date: 2019-09-06

Abstract

The invention discloses a method and a device for switching application programs, terminal equipment and a storage medium, which are used for solving the technical problem of low switching efficiency of the application programs in the prior art. The method comprises the following steps: in the process that a current application program is in a foreground running state, obtaining a first preset operation aiming at a first application identifier in a preset display area, wherein at least one application identifier is displayed in the preset display area, and the application program indicated by the application identifier is in a background running state; and switching the first application program corresponding to the first application identifier from a background running state to a foreground running state according to a first preset operation.

Description

Method and device for switching application programs, terminal equipment and storage medium

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of computer technologies, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for switching an application, a terminal device, and a storage medium.

Background

In recent years, users have become accustomed to using various applications in mobile terminals for activities such as entertainment, work, and daily shopping.

When a user opens a plurality of applications, generally only one application is in foreground operation, while the other opened applications are in background operation, if the current foreground operation application needs to be switched to another background operation application, that is, if the background operation application needs to be tuned to the foreground operation, the existing switching mode generally requires that the user first perform certain operations to see all the applications in the background operation, for example, the background operation application is displayed through a specific touch button, and then the application needing to be switched to the foreground operation is selected from the displayed background applications, thereby completing the switching of the applications from the background to the foreground.

Therefore, in the process of switching the application programs, a user needs to perform more operations, the operation process is complicated, the efficiency of switching the application programs is low, and the user experience is poor.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a method and a device for switching an application program, a terminal device and a storage medium, and is used for solving the technical problem that the switching efficiency is low when the application program is switched in the prior art.

In a first aspect, a method for switching applications is provided, where the method includes:

in the process that a current application program is in a foreground running state, obtaining a first preset operation aiming at a first application identifier in a preset display area, wherein at least one application identifier is displayed in the preset display area, and the application program indicated by the application identifier is in a background running state;

and switching the first application program corresponding to the first application identifier from a background running state to a foreground running state according to the first preset operation.

Optionally, switching the first application program corresponding to the first application identifier from a background running state to a foreground running state includes:

determining the display proportion of the current application program and the first application program;

and simultaneously displaying the current application program and the first application program in foreground according to the display proportion.

Optionally, a first display area of the first screen and a second display area of the second screen form an integral display area, the first display area and the second display area are located on the same plane, and the first screen and the second screen are connected to realize a dual-screen display function; when the application program is displayed on the double screens, determining the display proportion of the current application program and the first application program, wherein the step of:

determining the display proportion of the current application program and the first application program in the whole display area according to a preset proportion strategy; or,

and obtaining the proportion adjustment operation performed by a user, and determining the display proportion of the current application program and the first application program in the whole display area according to the proportion adjustment operation.

Optionally, after the first application program corresponding to the first application identifier is switched from the background running state to the foreground running state, the method further includes:

determining an application program currently running in a background;

and displaying the application identification of the application program currently running in the background in the preset display area.

Optionally, the method further includes:

determining a priority display order of the at least one application identifier according to a preset ordering strategy;

and displaying the at least one application identifier in the preset display area according to the determined priority display sequence.

Optionally, determining, according to a predetermined sorting policy, a priority display order of the at least one application identifier includes:

determining the switching times of each application program in the background running state from background running to foreground running according to the historical running record of the application program;

and determining the priority display sequence of the at least one application identifier according to a sequencing rule that the switching times are from large to small.

determining a display index of the application program corresponding to the at least one application identifier according to historical use habits of the user on the application program corresponding to the at least one application identifier, wherein the historical use habits of the user on the application program corresponding to the at least one application identifier comprise at least one of use duration, use times and use frequency;

and determining the priority display sequence of the at least one application identifier according to a sorting rule of the display indexes from large to small.

Optionally, the method further includes:

obtaining a second predetermined operation for a second application identification of the at least one application identification;

and controlling a second application program corresponding to the second application identifier to stop running according to the second preset operation.

Optionally, the predetermined display area further includes a predetermined functionality control and/or an application identifier of the current application program, where the predetermined functionality control includes at least one of a one-key clear control and a return-to-home interface control.

In a second aspect, an apparatus for switching an application is provided, the apparatus comprising:

the device comprises an obtaining module, a judging module and a display module, wherein the obtaining module is used for obtaining a first preset operation aiming at a first application identifier in a preset display area in the process that a current application program is in a foreground running state, at least one application identifier is displayed in the preset display area, and the application program indicated by the application identifier is in a background running state;

and the switching module is used for switching the first application program corresponding to the first application identifier from a background running state to a foreground running state according to the first preset operation.

Optionally, the switching module is configured to:

Optionally, an integral display area is formed by a first display area of the first screen and a second display area of the second screen, the first display area and the second display area are located on the same plane, and the first screen and the second screen are connected to realize a dual-screen display function, then the switching module is configured to:

Optionally, the apparatus further includes an update module, configured to:

determining an application program currently running in a background;

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises a display module, configured to:

Optionally, the display module is configured to:

Optionally, the apparatus further includes a processing module, configured to:

In a third aspect, a terminal device is provided, where the terminal device includes:

a memory for storing program instructions;

a processor for calling the program instructions stored in the memory and executing the steps included in any of the methods of the first aspect according to the obtained program instructions.

In a fourth aspect, there is provided a storage medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for causing a computer to perform the steps included in any one of the methods of the first aspect.

In the embodiment of the present application, when the application is displayed in the foreground, the application identifier (e.g., application icon) of the application running in the background may be directly displayed in a predetermined display area of the foreground, for example, in the program interface of the application running in the foreground, or in other areas of the screen, such as the navigation area, so that, when it is desired to switch the background running program (e.g. the first application) to foreground running, the user can perform a first predetermined operation on a first application icon corresponding to a first application program in a predetermined display area, and after detecting the first predetermined operation, the first application program can be switched from the background running state to the foreground running state according to the trigger of the first predetermined operation, so that the switching of the application program is completed, namely the switching of the application program from the background to the foreground is completed.

That is to say, in the display area of the foreground, the application programs in the background running state can be displayed in the predetermined display area in a centralized manner, so that foreground and background switching can be directly and flexibly performed on the application programs in the predetermined display area of the current page, and when the application programs are switched, the operation of viewing the application programs in the background running state is not required, so that the operation of a user is simplified, and the switching efficiency of the application programs can be improved to a certain extent.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present application or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments will be briefly introduced, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a method for switching applications in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a predetermined display area of a terminal device in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of another predetermined display area of the terminal device in the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of another predetermined display area of the terminal device in the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of another predetermined display area of the terminal device in the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of a handover application of a terminal device in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of another handover application of the terminal device in the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 is a schematic diagram of another handover application of the terminal device in the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of another handover application of the terminal device in the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 10 is a schematic diagram of another handover application of the terminal device in the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 11 is a schematic diagram of another handover application of the terminal device in the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 12 is a schematic diagram illustrating an application icon in a predetermined display area of a terminal device in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 13 is another schematic diagram illustrating an application icon in a predetermined display area of a terminal device in the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 14 is a schematic diagram illustrating an application icon and a one-key clearing control included in a predetermined display area of a terminal device in an embodiment of the present application, where the application icon and the one-key clearing control are of an application program running in a background;

fig. 15 is a block diagram showing an arrangement for switching an application in the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 16 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal device in the embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present application more apparent, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application. In the present application, the embodiments and features of the embodiments may be arbitrarily combined with each other without conflict. Also, while a logical order is shown in the flow diagrams, in some cases, the steps shown or described may be performed in an order different than here.

The terms "first," "second," "third," "fourth," and "fifth" in the description and claims of this application and the above-described drawings are used for distinguishing between different objects and not for describing a particular order. Furthermore, the term "comprises" and any variations thereof, which are intended to cover non-exclusive protection. For example, a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not limited to only those steps or elements listed, but may alternatively include other steps or elements not listed, or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

In the prior art, when a user uses a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone, a plurality of applications may need to be opened, for example, the user may use an application a for watching a video, may also use an application B for shopping, and may use a chat application C to communicate with a friend, and the user is currently watching the video, that is, the application a is in a foreground running state, while other opened applications, that is, the application B and the application C, are in a background running state, however, when the user wishes to switch the chat application C to the foreground running state, in the prior art, the user may operate the mobile phone to return to a main interface, find an application icon of the application C, and click the application icon to open the application C; or the HOME key can be pressed for a long time to select an application interface of the application program C from the application program B and the application program C running in the background, so that the application program C is opened; or the negative screen of the mobile phone can be opened to select the application program C from the application programs B and C which are displayed in the negative screen and run in the background, so that the application program C is opened.

However, in any of the above methods for switching application programs, it is necessary to search for an application icon of an application program that is desired to be switched, and then operate the application program that is desired to be switched to the foreground for operation, so that the application program can be switched from the background to the foreground. As can be seen, the operation steps of the conventional switching application are complicated and the switching efficiency is low, and for older users, it is a challenge to learn and memorize multiple steps required for switching the application, which results in poor user experience.

In view of this, an embodiment of the present application provides a method for switching an application program, by which an application identifier of an application program in a background running state can be displayed in a specific area in a current display interface, so that when a foreground and background switching of the application program is required, the application identifier of the application program in the specific area can be directly operated, and thus the application program can be quickly switched, the switching efficiency of the application program is improved, and user experience is improved.

The method for switching the application program provided by the embodiment of the application program can be executed by a device which has an application program switching function and is provided with the application program, and the device can be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a wearable device (such as a smart band) and other terminal devices.

The technical scheme provided by the embodiment of the application is described in the following with the accompanying drawings of the specification.

Referring to fig. 1, an embodiment of the present application provides a method for switching an application, where the method may be executed by the foregoing terminal device, and the method may be applied to any scenario where it is desired to switch an application, where in the application scenario, the terminal device may rapidly perform foreground-background switching on the application, that is, may switch the application in a background running state to a foreground running state, so as to implement switching of the application.

Hereinafter, the method for switching the application program in the embodiment of the present application will be described by taking the terminal device as a mobile phone as an example, wherein, the mobile phone can be a single-screen display mobile phone, and also can be a double-screen (or more multi-screen, such as three-screen or four-screen) display mobile phone, namely a folding screen mobile phone, taking the dual-screen display as an example, the folding screen mobile phone can form an integral display area by a first display area of a first screen and a second display area of a second screen, the first display area and the second display area are positioned on the same plane, namely, the connection of the first screen and the second screen can realize the function of double-screen display, namely, a user can unfold the folding screen mobile phone, the conversion from single-screen display to double-screen display of the mobile phone can be realized, or the user can fold the folding screen mobile phone with double-screen display, so that the conversion from double-screen display to single-screen display of the mobile phone can be realized.

In addition, for convenience of description, an application program may be referred to as an application in the embodiments of the present application.

The specific flow of the method for switching the application program provided by the embodiment of the application is described as follows.

Step 101: in the process that the current application program is in a foreground running state, first preset operation aiming at a first application identifier in a preset display area is obtained.

In the embodiment of the application, when the application interface of the application program is currently displayed on the display screen of the mobile phone, namely the application program is displayed in the foreground, the state of the application program can be called as a foreground running state; when the application interface of the application program is not currently displayed in the display screen of the mobile phone but the application program is also in the running state at the moment, the state of the application program can be called a background running state. That is to say, the foreground running state and the background running state are relative to a certain time, for example, at 13:00, the application interface of the running application a is displayed on the screen of the mobile phone, at this time, the application a may be considered to be in the foreground running state, and at the same time, the application interface of the running application B is not displayed on the screen of the mobile phone, so the application B may be considered to be in the background running state. At 13:05, the application interface of the running application program B is displayed on the screen of the mobile phone, and at this time, the application program B can be considered to be in the foreground running state, that is, the background running state at 13:00 is switched to the foreground running state, while the application interface of the running application program a is still not displayed on the screen of the mobile phone, so that the application program B can be considered to be switched from the foreground running state at 13:00 to the background running state.

In this embodiment of the application, when an application is in a foreground running state, application identifiers of all applications in a background running state may be displayed in a predetermined display area of a foreground, that is, at least one application identifier is displayed in the predetermined display area (for example, 1 application identifier is displayed, or 4 application identifiers are displayed), and an application indicated by each application identifier in the at least one application identifier is in a background running state, that is, the applications indicated by all application identifiers displayed in the predetermined display area are in a background running state. In the specific implementation process, the application identifier may be an application icon of the application program, may also be an application name of the application program, and of course, may also be identification information that can be used to represent the application program, such as a thumbnail of the application program background running interface. For convenience of description, in the embodiment of the present application, an application identifier is taken as an application icon as an example to describe the method for switching the application program provided in the embodiment of the present application.

For example, assuming that the application currently in the foreground running state is application 0, and the applications in the background running state are application 1, application 2, application 3, application 4, and application 5, respectively, then application icon 1 corresponding to application 1, application icon 2 corresponding to application 2, application icon 3 corresponding to application 3, application icon 4 corresponding to application 4, and application icon 5 corresponding to application 5 may be displayed in the predetermined display area.

In a specific implementation process, the application icons of different applications may be displayed in the same shape in a predetermined display area, or may also be displayed in different shapes, for example, the application icons of the applications may be displayed in a shape of a circle, a triangle, a square, or the like, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application, and for convenience of description, the following drawings all illustrate the application icons in a shape of a circle.

In this embodiment, the predetermined display area may refer to an area in the program running interface of the current application program, for example, the predetermined display area may be a left display area of the program running interface of the current application program, or may be a lowermost area of the program running interface of the current application program. Continuing with the previous example, as shown in fig. 2, the predetermined display area of the single-screen display mobile phone or the predetermined display area of the dual-screen display mobile phone shown in fig. 3 is the lowest part of the program running interface of the current application program, and the predetermined display area includes application icon 1, application icon 2, application icon 3, application icon 4, and application icon 5.

In the embodiment of the present application, please continue to refer to fig. 2, only application icon 1, application icon 2 and application icon 3 may be displayed due to the small display area of the single-screen display mobile phone. In a specific implementation process, a user can also perform sliding operation on a preset display area, so that an application program which is expected to be switched can be determined more quickly under the condition that the current display interface of the mobile phone is smaller.

In the embodiment of the present application, please refer to fig. 3, since the display area of the dual-screen display mobile phone is large, the application icon 1, the application icon 2, the application icon 3, the application icon 4, and the application icon 5 can be directly displayed, that is, more application icons of the application program in the background running state can be displayed, so that the user can operate the application icons more conveniently. And please continue to refer to fig. 3, a dashed line is used in the figure to identify a first display area of the first screen and a second display area of the second screen of the folding-screen mobile phone, in fig. 3, an upper area corresponding to the application icon 1 and the application icon 2 is the first display area of the first screen, and in a specific implementation process, an upper area corresponding to the application icon 4 and the application icon 5 may also be the first display area of the first screen, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application. In addition, it should be noted that, in the implementation process, the foldable screen mobile phone is seamlessly connected when being unfolded, that is, the whole display screen is integrated. And the dotted lines in the drawing marks in the following embodiments of the present application are all for better describing the method for switching the application program provided by the embodiments of the present application, and do not exist in the concrete implementation process.

In this embodiment, the predetermined display area may also be a program running interface, such as a navigation area, of a non-current application program in a current display interface of the mobile phone. For example, continuing with the previous example, as shown in fig. 4, the predetermined display area of the single-screen display mobile phone or the predetermined display area of the two-screen display mobile phone shown in fig. 5 is a program execution interface of a non-current application program in the current display interface of the mobile phone, and the predetermined display area includes application icon 1, application icon 2, application icon 3, application icon 4, and application icon 5. In order to better explain the method for switching the application program provided in the present application, the method for switching the application program provided in the embodiment of the present application will be described below by taking the predetermined display area displayed in the program running interface, which is not the current application program, in the current display interface of the mobile phone as an example.

In this embodiment of the application, in the process that the current application program is in the foreground running state, a first predetermined operation for a first application icon in the predetermined display area is obtained, where the first application icon belongs to application icons corresponding to all application programs in the background running state. In this embodiment of the application, the first application icon may be an application icon corresponding to one application program in a background running state, or may also be multiple (e.g., two) application icons corresponding to multiple (e.g., two) application programs in the background running state, that is, the first application icon may include one or more application icons. For example, the first predetermined operation is to click an application icon corresponding to an application program, the first application icon is an application icon corresponding to two application programs in a background running state, and a user can click two application icons corresponding to two application programs in the background running state in a predetermined display area at the same time, so that the mobile phone can obtain the first predetermined operation for the two application programs, and control the two application programs to be switched from a background to a foreground for running.

In a specific implementation process, when a user wants to switch a first application program currently running in a background to a foreground running, a first predetermined operation can be directly performed on a first application icon corresponding to the first application program in a predetermined display area, so that a mobile phone can obtain the first predetermined operation on the first application icon in the predetermined display area. The first predetermined operation may be sliding the first application icon upwards, or clicking the first application icon, or of course, pressing the first application icon for a long time, and the like, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

For example, continuing with the previous example as an example, if the user wishes to switch the application 3 currently running in the background to the foreground running, the user may slide the application icon 3 in the predetermined display area upward, so that the mobile phone may obtain an upward sliding operation for the application icon 3, where the upward sliding operation may be understood as the first predetermined operation in the embodiment of the present application.

Step 102: and switching the first application program corresponding to the first application identifier from a background running state to a foreground running state according to the first preset operation.

In this embodiment of the application, according to the first predetermined operation, the manner of switching the first application program corresponding to the first application icon from the background running state to the foreground running state may be to switch the first application program corresponding to the first application icon from the background running state to the foreground running state, and simultaneously switch the current application program currently running in the foreground from the foreground running state to the background running state, so that application switching can be realized faster, and switching efficiency of the application program is improved.

For example, if a user wants to directly switch an application 1 in a background running state to a foreground running state and switch an application 0 in the foreground running state to the background running state, so as to use the application 1 for a long time, the user may perform a long-press and upward-sliding operation on the application icon 1 of the application 1, and then may refer to a schematic diagram of a switching application program of a single-screen display mobile phone shown in fig. 6 or a schematic diagram of a switching application program of a dual-screen display mobile phone shown in fig. 7, where a current display interface of the mobile phone is a program running interface of the application 1, that is, after switching, the application program in the foreground running only has the application 1.

In another possible implementation manner, according to the first predetermined operation, the first application program corresponding to the first application icon is switched from the background running state to the foreground running state, and the running state of the current application program (i.e., application 0) may also be kept unchanged at the same time, that is, after the first application program is switched from the background to the foreground, the current application program is still in the foreground running, and then the application program in the foreground running includes application 0 and application 1. Further, the display scales of the current application and the first application may be determined, and then the current application and the first application may be simultaneously displayed in the foreground according to the determined display scales.

In the embodiment of the application, the display scales of the current application and the first application can be roughly determined by adopting two modes of active determination and passive determination. The active determination mode is, for example, to determine the display ratio according to a preset ratio policy, and since the active determination mode is to determine the display ratios of the current application program and the first application program directly according to a known preset ratio policy, the rate is faster and the determination efficiency is higher; the passive determination is, for example, to determine the display scale of the current application and the first application according to the received display scale adjustment instruction (e.g., an adjustment operation performed by a user).

That is, another optional determination method is provided on the aforementioned active determination method, so that the applicability and flexibility of the scheme are enhanced, and since the determination is performed by the real-time display scale adjustment instruction, the determination is more targeted by the determination method of the display scale adjustment instruction, and the accuracy of determining the display scales of the current application program and the first application program is further improved.

In order to facilitate the understanding of those skilled in the art, the following lists several possible ways to describe how to determine the display ratio of the current application and the first application, it should be understood that the following examples are only illustrative and not limiting to the embodiments of the present application, and other determining ways may be adopted in the specific implementation process besides the ways listed below, which are not exhaustive herein.

First mode of determination

And determining the display proportion of the current application program and the first application program in the whole display area according to a preset proportion strategy.

In this embodiment of the application, the foregoing whole display area may refer to a whole display area of a single-screen display mobile phone, and may also refer to a whole display area formed by a first display area of a first screen and a second display area of a second screen of a dual-screen display mobile phone. In the first determination manner, the preset ratio policy may be to determine the preset display ratio according to a predetermined configuration manner, for example, the preset display ratio may be determined according to a preset action configured in advance, or the preset display ratio may be determined according to an application type policy configured in advance.

In a specific implementation process, the preset proportion policy may be to determine a display proportion according to a preset action configured in advance, for example, as shown in a schematic diagram of a single-screen mobile phone shown in fig. 8 or a schematic diagram of a dual-screen mobile phone shown in fig. 9, according to the aforementioned first preset operation, it may be directly determined that the foreground display proportion of the application 0 (i.e., the current application program) and the application 1 (i.e., the first application program) is 1:1, and the applications 2, 3, 4, and 5 in the background running state are displayed, so that the application icons of the applications running in the background, that is, the application icon 2, the application icon 3, the application icon 4, and the application icon 5, are displayed in a predetermined display area.

In a specific implementation process, the preset proportion policy may further determine the display proportion according to the type of the application program, that is, determine the type of the application program first, and then determine the display proportions of the current application program and the first application program according to the display proportions corresponding to the different types of the application program. For example, the preset scaling policy is that the display scale of the video application and the other applications is 2:1, if it is determined that the application type of the application 0 is the other applications, and the application type of the application 1 is the video application, the display scale of the application 1 and the application 0 is 1:2, and the predetermined display area in the background running state is the application 2, the application 3, the application 4, and the application 5.

In the first determination mode, the general user use requirements are considered, so that the switching display of the application program can be realized more accurately, that is, on the basis of realizing the application switching, the application display requirements of the user are also considered, and the use requirements of the user can be met to a greater extent.

Second mode of determination

After the first predetermined operation is obtained, the mobile phone can obtain the scale adjustment operation performed by the user, and then determine the display scale of the current application program and the first application program in the whole display area according to the scale adjustment operation.

In the embodiment of the application, when a user wants to display a current application program and a first application program in a display scale required by the user, after a first predetermined operation is performed on the first application program, an operation can be performed on a display adjustment option corresponding to the first application program, so that a mobile phone can obtain a scale adjustment operation performed by the user on the first application program, and then the display scale of the current application program and the first application program occupying an entire display area is determined according to the scale adjustment operation. For example, the user adjusts the display scale of application 1 to 50%, and then the display scales of application 1 and application 0 are 1: 1.

In another possible embodiment, the display scale of the first application or the current application may also be directly and manually adjusted by the user, so that the mobile phone may obtain the scale adjustment operation performed by the user for the first application, for example, as shown in the schematic diagram of a single-screen mobile phone shown in fig. 10 or the schematic diagram of a mobile phone shown in fig. 11 with a dual-screen display, the user manually adjusts the display area of the application 0 to obtain a display scale that is more comfortable for the user, and thus the manner of determining the display scales of the current application and the first application is more flexible.

In the second determination mode, the user can be provided with the choice of determining the display proportion again, so that the use requirements of the user can be considered as much as possible, and the application program can be displayed in a more targeted manner on the basis of improving the switching efficiency.

In this embodiment of the application, after the first application program corresponding to the first application icon is switched from the background running state to the foreground running state, all application programs currently running in the background may also be determined, and all application identifiers of the application programs currently running in the background are displayed in the predetermined display area. Therefore, the running state of the application program in the current mobile phone can be more conveniently and clearly known by the user, that is, the application icon corresponding to the background application program displayed in the preset display area can be updated, so that the indication updating can be performed on the application program running in the foreground and the background in real time. In the updating process, whether the current application program is switched to background operation or not is mainly considered, if the current application program is still in foreground operation, the application icons in the preset display area are only reduced, the application icons corresponding to the first application program are only reduced, and if the current application program is switched to background operation, the application icons in the preset display area are not only reduced, but also increased.

In this embodiment of the application, a preferential display order of all application icons in a predetermined display area may be determined according to a predetermined ordering policy, and then at least one application icon in the predetermined display area is displayed in the predetermined display area according to the determined preferential display order.

In a specific implementation process, the switching frequency of each application program in the background running state from background running to foreground running is determined according to the historical running record of the application program, and then the priority display order of each application icon is determined according to a sorting rule that the switching frequency is from large to small. For example, the greater the switching times is, the greater the probability that the user uses the corresponding application program is, and therefore, the application icon of the application program with the greater switching times may be correspondingly displayed to a position where the user can handle the application program most conveniently by one-handed operation, or the application program with the greater switching times may be displayed to a position in the middle of the predetermined display area, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

For example, assuming that the foreground running application in the mobile phone of the user is application R, the background running application is application a, application S, application C, application F, and application V, and according to the history running record of the application, the number of times of switching application a from background running to foreground running is determined to be 10, the number of times of switching application F from background running to foreground running is determined to be 3, the number of times of switching application S from background running to foreground running is determined to be 0, the number of times of switching application C from background running to foreground running is determined to be 1, and the number of times of switching application V from background running to foreground running is determined to be 2, in the predetermined display area, the determined preferential display sequence in the predetermined display area is application icon S of application S, application icon C of application C, application icon V of application V, and the application icon b in the predetermined display area is determined, An application icon F of the application F and an application icon A of the application A. Specifically, refer to the schematic diagram of a single-screen display mobile phone shown in fig. 12 or the schematic diagram of a dual-screen display mobile phone shown in fig. 13.

In another possible implementation manner, the display index of the at least one application program may be further determined according to the historical usage habit of the user on the at least one application program, where the historical usage habit of the user on the at least one application program includes at least one of usage duration, usage times and usage frequency, and then the display index of the at least one application program is determined according to a sorting rule that the display indexes are from large to small.

For example, continuing with the previous example, it may be determined that the usage duration of the application a by the user in one day is 2 minutes, the usage duration of the application S in one day is 60 minutes, the usage duration of the application F in one day is 18 minutes, the usage duration of the application C in one day is 25 minutes, and the usage duration of the application V in one day is 15 minutes, and then the application icon of the application S, the application icon of the application C, the application icon of the application F, the application icon of the application V, and the application icon of the application a are preferentially displayed in the predetermined display area in the order of priority.

In this application embodiment, in view of that a user may need to stop running a certain application program running in the background to save resources, the user may also directly perform a second predetermined operation on a second application icon in the at least one application icon in the predetermined display area, and in a specific implementation process, the second predetermined operation may be any operation that can remove the second application icon from the predetermined display area, for example, the second application icon may be held and pulled down out of a predetermined implementation area. In addition, in the embodiment of the application, the first preset operation and the second preset operation are used for representing different preset operations, so that different operations are performed on the same application icon, different results can be obtained, and therefore a user can more conveniently switch or stop running the application program, and the use experience of the user is improved.

In this embodiment of the application, in consideration of actual needs of a user, the predetermined display area may further include a predetermined functionality control and/or an application identifier of the current application program, that is, at least one of the predetermined functionality control and the application identifier of the current application program may also be displayed in the predetermined display area, where the predetermined functionality control includes at least one of a one-key clearing control and a return-to-main-interface control. That is, the predetermined display area may include at least one application icon corresponding to at least one application program in the background running state and an application icon of the current application program at the same time; or, the predetermined display area may simultaneously include at least one application icon and a one-key clearing control corresponding to at least one application program in a background running state; or, the predetermined display area may simultaneously include at least one application icon corresponding to at least one application program in the background running state, a one-key clearing control, a return main interface control, and the like.

In the embodiment of the present application, the one-touch clear control is a function control for triggering the clearing of a program running in the background, where "clearing" may refer to closing the running state of an application program, or may also refer to uninstalling the application program. For example, after the user clicks the one-touch clear control, the mobile phone may control all the applications running in the background to stop running. That is to say, in the embodiment of the present application, the user performs the third predetermined operation on the one-touch clear control, so that all the application programs running in the background can be controlled to stop running. Or, according to a preset clearing strategy, the control can be cleared by one key to control part of the application program running in the background to stop running. In a specific implementation process, the preset removal policy may be a switching frequency for switching an application running in a background to a foreground running, or may be a switching frequency for switching an application running in a background to a foreground running (for example, one day, 3 hours), which is not exhaustive in the embodiment of the present application, for example, after a one-key removal control is clicked, the switching frequency for switching an application running in a background running state from the background to the foreground is less than a certain number of times (for example, 4 times) or the application with the smallest switching frequency stops running, because the number of switching in the foreground and the background is less, it indicates that the user has low attention to the application, and at this time, the application may be controlled to stop running, so as to reduce the power consumption of the device as much as possible.

For example, continuing with the previous example, please refer to the schematic diagram of the dual-screen display mobile phone shown in fig. 14, wherein the predetermined display area includes application icons of the application program running in the background, i.e., application icon S of application S, application icon C of application C, application icon V of application V, application icon F of application F, application icon a of application a, and a one-touch clear control, and the application icon S of application S is not displayed in the current interface due to a problem of the size of the display area, and the user can slide the predetermined display area to find the application icon S. Further, when the user wants to operate all the application programs in the background running state so as to stop running all the application programs corresponding to the application icons displayed in the predetermined display area, the user may perform a third predetermined operation on the one-key clearing control in the predetermined display area, for example, click the one-key clearing control, so that the mobile phone may control all the application programs in the background running state to stop running.

In a specific implementation process, the return main interface control is a function control for triggering the return main interface. For example, the user may click on the return-to-home control, and the cell phone returns to the home interface. In the embodiment of the present application, the predetermined function controls may be other function controls that meet various actual needs of the user, not only the two function controls described above, but also other function controls.

In a specific implementation process, the predetermined display area may also include an application icon of the current application program, and further, the user may perform a fourth preset operation on the application icon of the current application program (for example, long-pressing the application icon of the current application program), so as to return to a desktop where the application icon of the current application program is located, or switch an application interface of the current application program. For example, the current application program included in the predetermined display area is a video playing application program, the current application interface of the video playing application program is a movie playing interface, and after the user performs the fourth preset operation on the application icon of the video playing application program, the movie playing interface of the current application program may be switched to the movie recommendation interface. Therefore, the application interface of the application program can be switched quickly, and the user experience can be improved.

Based on the same inventive concept, the embodiment of the present application provides an application switching apparatus, which can implement the function corresponding to the foregoing application switching method. The means for switching applications may be a hardware structure, a software module, or a hardware structure plus a software module. The device for switching the application program can be realized by a chip system, and the chip system can be formed by a chip and can also comprise the chip and other discrete devices. Referring to fig. 15, the apparatus for switching an application includes an obtaining module 1501 and a switching module 1502. Wherein:

an obtaining module 1501, configured to obtain, in a process that a current application program is in a foreground running state, a first predetermined operation for a first application identifier in a predetermined display area, where at least one application identifier is displayed in the predetermined display area, and an application program indicated by the application identifier is in a background running state;

the switching module 1502 is configured to switch the first application program corresponding to the first application identifier from a background running state to a foreground running state according to a first predetermined operation.

In one possible implementation, the switching module 1502 is configured to: determining the display proportion of the current application program and the first application program; and simultaneously displaying the current application program and the first application program in foreground according to the display scale.

In a possible implementation manner, a whole display area is composed of a first display area of a first screen and a second display area of a second screen, the first display area and the second display area are located on the same plane, and the connection between the first screen and the second screen can implement a dual-screen display function, so that when the dual-screen display is performed, the switching module 1502 is configured to: determining the display proportion of the current application program and the first application program in the whole display area according to a preset proportion strategy; or obtaining the proportion adjustment operation performed by the user, and determining the display proportion of the current application program and the first application program in the whole display area according to the proportion adjustment operation.

In a possible implementation manner, the apparatus for switching an application in this embodiment of the present application further includes an update module, configured to determine an application currently running in a background; and displaying the application identification of the application program currently running in the background in a preset display area.

In a possible implementation manner, the apparatus for switching application programs in this embodiment of the present application further includes a display module, configured to determine, according to a predetermined sorting policy, a priority display order of at least one application identifier; and displaying at least one application identifier in a preset display area according to the determined priority display sequence.

In a possible implementation manner, the apparatus for switching application programs in this embodiment of the application further includes a display module, configured to determine, according to a historical running record of the application programs, a number of switching times for each application program in a background running state to switch from background running to foreground running; and determining the priority display sequence of at least one application identifier according to a sequencing rule that the switching times are from large to small.

In a possible implementation manner, the apparatus for switching an application program in this embodiment of the application further includes a display module, which determines, according to a historical usage habit of a user on the application program corresponding to at least one application identifier, a display index of the application program corresponding to the at least one application identifier, where the historical usage habit of the user on the application program corresponding to the at least one application identifier includes at least one of a usage duration, a usage number, and a usage frequency; and determining the priority display sequence of at least one application identifier according to a sorting rule of the display indexes from large to small.

In a possible implementation manner, the apparatus for switching an application program in this embodiment of the present application further includes a processing module, configured to obtain a second predetermined operation for a second application identifier in the at least one application identifier; and controlling the second application program corresponding to the second application identifier to stop running according to the second preset operation.

In a possible implementation manner, the predetermined display area further includes a predetermined functionality control and/or an application identifier of the current application program, wherein the predetermined functionality control includes at least one of a one-key clearing control and a return-to-main-interface control.

All relevant contents of each step related to the foregoing method for switching an application program may be referred to as a functional description of a functional module corresponding to a device for switching an application program in this embodiment, and are not described herein again.

The division of the modules in the embodiments of the present application is schematic, and only one logical function division is provided, and in actual implementation, there may be another division manner, and in addition, each functional module in each embodiment of the present invention may be integrated in one processor, or may exist alone physically, or two or more modules are integrated in one module. The integrated module can be realized in a hardware mode, and can also be realized in a software functional module mode.

Based on the same inventive concept, an embodiment of the present application provides a terminal device, which may be the foregoing folding-screen mobile phone or the foregoing single-screen mobile phone, please refer to fig. 16, where the terminal device includes at least one processor 1601 and a memory 1602 connected to the at least one processor, a specific connection medium between the processor 1601 and the memory 1602 is not limited in the embodiment of the present application, in fig. 16, the processor 1601 and the memory 1602 are connected through a bus 1600 as an example, the bus 1600 is shown by a thick line in fig. 16, and a connection manner between other components is only schematically illustrated and is not limited. The bus 1600 may be divided into an address bus, a data bus, a control bus, etc., and is shown with only one thick line in fig. 16 for ease of illustration, but does not represent only one bus or type of bus.

In the embodiment of the present application, the memory 1602 stores instructions executable by the at least one processor 1601, and the at least one processor 1601 is capable of executing the instructions stored in the memory 1602 to perform the steps included in the method for switching the application.

The processor 1601 is a control center of the terminal device, and can connect various parts of the terminal device through various interfaces and lines, and perform various functions and process data of the terminal device by operating or executing instructions stored in the memory 1602 and calling data stored in the memory 1602, so as to perform overall monitoring on the terminal device. Alternatively, the processor 1601 may include one or more processing units, and the processor 1601 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 1601. In some embodiments, the processor 1601 and the memory 1602 may be implemented on the same chip, or in some embodiments, they may be implemented separately on separate chips.

The processor 1601 may be a general purpose processor, such as a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a digital signal processor, an application specific integrated circuit, a field programmable gate array or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic, discrete hardware components, and may implement or perform the methods, steps, and logic blocks disclosed in the embodiments of the present application. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or any conventional processor or the like. The steps of the method for switching application programs disclosed in the embodiments of the present application may be directly implemented by a hardware processor, or implemented by a combination of hardware and software modules in the processor.

Memory 1602, which is a non-volatile computer-readable storage medium, may be used to store non-volatile software programs, non-volatile computer-executable programs, and modules. The Memory 1602 may include at least one type of storage medium, and may include, for example, a flash Memory, a hard disk, a multimedia card, a card-type Memory, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), a Programmable Read Only Memory (PROM), a Read Only Memory (ROM), a charge Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM), a magnetic Memory, a magnetic disk, an optical disk, and so on. The memory 1602 is any other medium that can be used to carry or store desired program code in the form of instructions or data structures and that can be accessed by a computer, but is not limited to such. The memory 1602 in the embodiments of the present application may also be circuitry or any other device capable of performing a storage function to store program instructions and/or data.

By programming the processor 1601, codes corresponding to the method for switching the application programs described in the foregoing embodiments may be solidified in the chip, so that the chip can execute the steps of the method for switching the application programs when running.

Based on the same inventive concept, the present application also provides a storage medium storing computer instructions, which when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the steps of the method for switching application programs as described above.

In some possible embodiments, the various aspects of the method for switching an application provided in the present application may also be implemented in the form of a program product including program code for causing a terminal device to perform the steps of the method for switching an application according to various exemplary embodiments of the present application described above in this specification when the program product is run on the terminal device.

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

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

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

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

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made in the present application without departing from the spirit and scope of the application. Thus, if such modifications and variations of the present application fall within the scope of the claims of the present application and their equivalents, the present application is intended to include such modifications and variations as well.

Claims

1. A method for switching applications, the method comprising:

2. The method of claim 1, wherein switching the first application corresponding to the first application identification from a background running state to a foreground running state comprises:

3. The method of claim 2, wherein an integral display area is composed of a first display area of a first screen and a second display area of a second screen, the first display area and the second display area are in the same plane, and the first screen and the second screen are connected to realize a dual-screen display function;

when the application program is displayed on the double screens, determining the display proportion of the current application program and the first application program, wherein the step of:

4. The method of any of claims 1-3, wherein after switching the first application corresponding to the first application identification from a background running state to a foreground running state, the method further comprises:

determining an application program currently running in a background;

5. The method of any of claims 1-3, wherein the method further comprises:

6. The method of claim 5, wherein determining the preferred presentation order of the at least one application identifier according to a predetermined ordering policy comprises:

7. The method of any of claims 1-3, wherein the method further comprises:

8. The method of any of claims 1-3, further comprising a predetermined functionality control and/or an application identification of the current application program in the predetermined display area, wherein the predetermined functionality control comprises at least one of a one-key clear control and a return to home interface control.

9. An apparatus for switching applications, the apparatus comprising:

10. A terminal device, characterized in that the terminal device comprises:

a memory for storing program instructions;

a processor for calling program instructions stored in said memory and for executing the steps comprised in the method of any one of claims 1 to 8 in accordance with the obtained program instructions.

11. A storage medium storing computer-executable instructions for causing a computer to perform the steps comprising the method of any one of claims 1-8.