CN111273993B

CN111273993B - Icon arrangement method and electronic equipment

Info

Publication number: CN111273993B
Application number: CN202010116591.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 姜环宇
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-02-25
Filing date: 2020-02-25
Publication date: 2023-08-25
Anticipated expiration: 2040-02-25
Also published as: CN111273993A

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention provides an icon arranging method and electronic equipment, relates to the technical field of communication, and can solve the problem that an icon arranging mode of the electronic equipment in the prior art is complicated. The specific method comprises the following steps: receiving a first input of N icons in a first area of a target interface; responsive to the first input, moving the N icons from the first area to a second area of the target interface; receiving a second input moving M of the N icons to a first position in the first area; in response to the second input, displaying M icons at the first position, and displaying N-M icons at other positions than the first position in the first area, wherein the N-M icons are icons except the M icons in the N icons; wherein N and M are both positive integers, and M is less than or equal to N. The scheme is applied to a scene of arranging icons.

Description

Icon arrangement method and electronic equipment

Technical Field

The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of communication, in particular to an icon sorting method and electronic equipment.

Background

With the development of mobile communication technology, more and more applications can be installed in electronic devices, and more application icons are displayed in the interface of the electronic devices.

In general, in the case where a plurality of application icons are included in one interface, when a user wants to adjust the display positions of the application icons in the interface, each application icon may be dragged in turn to a certain position in the interface.

However, after the user drags the application icon a to the target position in the interface, and drags the application icon B to the icon display position in front of the target position, since the number of icon display positions in front of the target position is fixed and each icon display position corresponds to one icon, the display position of the application icon a automatically moves backward after the application icon B is added to the icon display position in front of the target position. If the user wants to keep the icon a at the target position unchanged, the user needs to drag the icon a to the target position again. Therefore, the manner of arranging icons by the electronic device in the prior art is complicated.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides an icon arranging method and electronic equipment, which can solve the problem that the mode of arranging icons by the electronic equipment in the prior art is complicated.

In order to solve the technical problems, the embodiment of the invention is realized as follows:

in a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides an icon sorting method. The method is applied to an electronic device, and the method can include: receiving a first input of N icons in a first area of a target interface; responsive to the first input, moving the N icons from the first area to a second area of the target interface; receiving a second input moving M of the N icons to a first position in the first area; in response to the second input, displaying M icons at the first position, and displaying N-M icons at other positions than the first position in the first area, wherein the N-M icons are icons except the M icons in the N icons; wherein N and M are both positive integers, and M is less than or equal to N.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides an electronic device. The electronic device comprises a receiving module, a processing module and a display module. The receiving module is used for receiving first inputs of N icons in a first area of the target interface; the processing module is used for responding to the first input received by the receiving module and moving the N icons from the first area to the second area of the target interface; the receiving module is further used for receiving a second input for moving M icons in the N icons moved by the processing module to a first position in the first area; the display module is used for responding to the second input received by the receiving module, displaying M icons at the first position, and displaying N-M icons at other positions except the first position in the first area, wherein the N-M icons are icons except the M icons in the N icons; wherein N and M are both positive integers, and M is less than or equal to N.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides an electronic device, including a processor, a memory, and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the computer program implementing the steps of the icon sorting method as in the first aspect, when executed by the processor.

In a fourth aspect, embodiments of the present invention provide a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program which, when executed by a processor, implements the steps of the icon sorting method as in the first aspect described above.

In the embodiment of the invention, the electronic equipment can receive the first input of N icons in the first area of the target interface by a user and respond to the first input to move the N icons from the first area to the second area of the target interface; then, the electronic device may receive a second input from the user to move M icons of the N icons to a first position in the first area, and then display the M icons at the first position in response to the second input, and display N-M icons in other positions than the first position in the first area, where the N-M icons are icons of the N icons except the M icons; wherein N and M are both positive integers, and M is less than or equal to N. According to the scheme, when N icons are displayed in the first area of the target interface, if a user wants to arrange the display positions of the icons, the user can trigger the electronic device to move the N icons to the second area of the target interface through one input, then select M icons needing to be assigned to the display positions from the N icons, and move the M icons to the first position in the first area. Therefore, the electronic device can display M icons at the first position and display other icons in the N icons at other positions except the first position in the first area, namely, the embodiment of the invention can designate display positions for a plurality of icons in the target interface without repeated arrangement of the icons by a user, thereby simplifying the process of arranging the icons by the electronic device.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic architecture diagram of an android operating system according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an icon sorting method according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is an interface schematic diagram of a first region according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of an interface of icons displayed in a second area according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of an interface for redisplaying icons in a first area according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6 is an interface schematic diagram for reconstructing a display sequence of icons in a second area according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of an interface for displaying icons in a folder according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9 is a schematic hardware diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The following description of the embodiments of the present application will be made clearly and fully with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is evident that the embodiments described are some, but not all embodiments of the application. All other embodiments, based on the described embodiments, which a person of ordinary skill in the art would obtain without inventive faculty, are within the scope of the application.

The term "and/or" herein is an association relationship describing an associated object, meaning that there may be three relationships, e.g., a and/or B, which may represent: a exists alone, A and B exist together, and B exists alone. The symbol "/" herein indicates that the associated object is or is a relationship, e.g., A/B indicates A or B.

The terms "first" and "second" and the like herein are used to distinguish between different objects and are not used to describe a particular order of objects. For example, the first input and the second input, etc., are used to distinguish between different inputs, and are not used to describe a particular order of inputs.

In embodiments of the invention, words such as "exemplary" or "such as" are used to mean serving as an example, instance, or illustration. Any embodiment or design described herein as "exemplary" or "e.g." in an embodiment should not be taken as preferred or advantageous over other embodiments or designs. Rather, the use of words such as "exemplary" or "such as" is intended to present related concepts in a concrete fashion.

The electronic device in the embodiment of the invention can be an electronic device with an operating system. The operating system may be an Android operating system, an ios operating system, or other possible operating systems, and the embodiment of the present invention is not limited specifically.

The software environment to which the icon arranging method provided by the embodiment of the invention is applied is described below by taking an android operating system as an example.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an architecture of a possible android operating system according to an embodiment of the present invention. In fig. 1, the architecture of the android operating system includes 4 layers, respectively: an application program layer, an application program framework layer, a system runtime layer and a kernel layer (specifically, a Linux kernel layer).

The application program layer comprises various application programs (including system application programs and third party application programs) in the android operating system. For example, in the embodiment of the invention, the electronic device may specifically sort the icons in the interface through some application programs.

The application framework layer is a framework of applications, and developers can develop some applications based on the application framework layer while adhering to the development principle of the framework of the applications.

Generally, an application may include two parts, one part referring to a service (service) running in the background of the electronic device, for detecting an input by a user for the application and performing a corresponding action in response to the input, e.g., if a first input by the user is detected, N icons may be moved from a first area to a second area of a target interface in response to the first input. Another part refers to content displayed on the screen of the electronic device, for example, the electronic device displays M icons at a first location and N-M icons at other locations than the first location in the first area.

The system runtime layer includes libraries (also referred to as system libraries) and android operating system runtime environments. The library mainly provides various resources required by the android operating system. The android operating system running environment is used for providing a software environment for the android operating system.

The kernel layer is an operating system layer of the android operating system, and belongs to the bottommost layer of the software hierarchy of the android operating system. The kernel layer provides core system services and a driver related to hardware for the android operating system based on a Linux kernel.

Taking an android operating system as an example, in the embodiment of the present invention, a developer may develop a software program for implementing the icon sorting method provided in the embodiment of the present invention based on the system architecture of the android operating system shown in fig. 1, so that the icon sorting method may be operated based on the android operating system shown in fig. 1. Namely, the processor or the electronic device can realize the icon sorting method provided by the embodiment of the invention by running the software program in the android operating system.

The electronic device in the embodiment of the invention can be a terminal device. The terminal device may be a mobile terminal device or a non-mobile terminal device. By way of example, the mobile terminal device may be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palm computer, a vehicle-mounted terminal, a wearable device, an ultra-mobile personal computer (ultra-mobile personal computer, UMPC), a netbook or a personal digital assistant (personal digital assistant, PDA), and the like, and the non-mobile terminal device may be a personal computer (personal computer, PC), a Television (TV), a teller machine, a self-service machine, and the like, and the embodiments of the present invention are not limited in particular.

The execution main body of the icon sorting method provided by the embodiment of the invention can be the electronic equipment, or can be a functional module and/or a functional entity capable of realizing the icon sorting method in the electronic equipment, and the execution main body can be specifically determined according to actual use requirements. The icon arranging method provided by the embodiment of the invention is exemplified by an electronic device.

In general, in the case where a target interface of an electronic device includes a plurality of icons, if a user wants to change the display positions of the icons in the interface, the user may adjust the display positions of the icons, for example, the user may make an input of sequentially dragging the icons to a designated position, and accordingly, the electronic device may adjust the display positions of the icons according to the input of the user. For example, in one scenario, the electronic device may control at least one of the icons to move from the target interface to the other interface based on user input; in another scenario, the electronic device may control the at least one icon to move from one location in the target interface to another location in the target interface.

In the embodiment of the invention, the electronic equipment can receive the first input of N icons in the first area of the target interface by the user, and move the N icons from the first area to the second area of the target interface in response to the first input, then the electronic equipment can receive the second input of the user for moving M icons in the N icons to the first position in the first area, and then in response to the second input, M icons are displayed in the first position, N-M icons are displayed in other positions except the first position in the first area, and the N-M icons are icons except the M icons in the N icons; wherein N and M are both positive integers, and M is less than or equal to N. According to the scheme, when N icons are displayed in the first area of the target interface, if a user wants to arrange the display positions of the icons, the user can trigger the electronic device to move the N icons to the second area of the target interface through one input, then select M icons needing to be assigned to the display positions from the N icons, and move the M icons to the first position in the first area. In this way, the electronic device can display M icons at the first position and display other icons of the N icons at other positions than the first position in the first area. Namely, the embodiment of the invention can specify the display positions for a plurality of icons in the target interface without repeated arrangement of the icons by a user, thereby simplifying the process of arranging the icons by the electronic equipment.

The icon arranging method and the electronic device provided by the embodiment of the invention are exemplified by the following drawings.

As shown in fig. 2, an embodiment of the present invention provides an icon sorting method, which may be applied to an electronic device. The method may include S201 to S204 described below.

S201, the electronic device receives first inputs of N icons in a first area of a target interface.

Optionally, the target interface may be any one of interfaces for displaying icons in the electronic device. For example, the target interface may be a desktop interface or an application interface, which is not limited by the embodiment of the present invention.

Alternatively, the first area may be a whole area or a part of the area in the target interface.

Optionally, any one of the N icons may be an icon of a system application program, an icon of a third party application program, or an icon of a folder in the electronic device.

Optionally, the first input may be a touch input or a gesture input, and may specifically be determined according to an actual use requirement. For example, the touch input may be a double click input of the user to the target interface, or may be a click input of the user to a control, where the control may be used to move N icons from the first area to other areas of the target interface when the user click input is received.

For example, when the user triggers the electronic device to display the target interface, the electronic device may display the N icons in the first area of the target interface in a preset icon display order. Taking N as 7 as an example, the N icons may include icon 1, icon 2, icon 3, icon 4, icon 5, icon 6, and icon 7. In one scenario, as shown in (a) of fig. 3, the electronic device may sequentially display the 7 icons in the target interface in order of priority from the top of the target interface to the bottom of the target interface. As such, the region indicated by 10 in fig. 3 (a) may be the first region of the target interface; in another scenario, as shown in (b) of fig. 3, the electronic device may sequentially display the 7 icons in the target interface in order of priority from the left side of the target interface to the right side of the target interface. This is the case. The region indicated by 10 in (b) of fig. 3 may be the first region of the target interface.

Optionally, the user may trigger the electronic device to control the N icons to be in an editable state, and in the case that the icons are in the editable state, the user may perform a moving operation or an unloading operation on the icons. Thereafter, the user may make a first input to the N icons in the first area of the target interface.

S202, the electronic device responds to the first input to move the N icons from the first area to the second area of the target interface.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the dimensions of the first area and the second area are not specifically limited. For example, the first and second regions may be the same size, or the first region may be larger in size than the second region.

Alternatively, the second area may be an area different from the first area in the target interface. For example, the second region may be the entire region or a partial region of the target interface other than the first region, may be a partial sub-region of the first region, or may be a region in a floating frame that is displayed in a floating manner on the target interface.

Illustratively, take N as 7, and the second region as a partial region in a region other than the first region in the target interface as an example. As shown in fig. 4 (a), when the control 11 is included in the target interface, the user may make a click input to the control 11, and the control 11 may be used to move the icon in the first region 10 of the target interface to the second region. Thereafter, as shown in (b) of fig. 4, the electronic device may receive a click input of the control 11 by the user and move 7 icons from the first area 10 to the second area 12 of the target interface in response to the click input. That is, the electronic device may cancel the display of 7 icons in the first area 10 and display the 7 icons in the second area 12.

S203, the electronic device receives a second input of moving M icons in the N icons of the second area to a first position in the first area.

Wherein, N and M are positive integers, and M is less than or equal to N.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the first position may include M icon display positions, where one icon display position is used to display one icon, that is, each icon in the M icons corresponds to one icon display position in the M icon display positions.

For example, after the electronic device displays N icons in the second region of the target interface, the user may select M icons from the N icons and make a second input to move the M icons to a first position in the first region, so that the electronic device may receive a second input to move the M icons to the first position in the first region.

Alternatively, in the case where M is greater than 1, the first position may be an adjacent icon display position in the first area, that is, an icon display position in an idle state is not included between two icons in the first position; the icon display position in the first area may be not adjacent, that is, at least one icon display position in an idle state may be included between two icons in the first position.

It is understood that the first location may be at least one icon display location determined from icon display locations of the first area according to subjective ideas or demands of the user. When the user's demands are different, the positions selected by the user for displaying the M icons are different. For example, the first position may be the icon display position a in the target interface, or may be the icon display position B in the target interface.

S204, the electronic device responds to the second input, M icons are displayed at the first position, and N-M icons are displayed at other positions except the first position in the first area.

The N-M icons may be icons other than M icons out of the N icons.

Alternatively, the second input may be an input that sequentially moves each of the M icons to the first position in the first area, that is, the second input may include a plurality of sub-inputs, and the electronic device may display the icon at a position corresponding to each of the sub-inputs in response to each of the sub-inputs.

In the embodiment of the invention, after the electronic device responds to the second input and displays the M icons at the first position, the electronic device can display the N-M icons at other positions except the first position in the first area. One possible implementation is that the user may make one other input to the N-M icons than the second input, e.g., the user makes a click input to a control, thereby causing the electronic device to move the N-M icons of the second area to other positions in the first area than the first position in response to the click input. In another possible implementation manner, if no input is received after the preset time, the electronic device may automatically move the N-M icons of the second area to other positions in the first area than the first position.

Optionally, the display order of the N-M icons at the other positions except the first position may be determined by the electronic device according to at least one of the following conditions: random distribution, adjustment willingness of a user to the icons, use frequency of the icons by the user, application program types corresponding to the icons, downloading time of the application programs corresponding to the icons and the like.

Illustratively, N is 7 and M is 2. If the M icons include the icon 2 and the icon 4, as shown in (a) of fig. 5, after the second input of the user to move the icon 2 and the icon 4 to the first position 13 is electronically received, the electronic device may display the icon 2 and the icon 4 at the first position 13 in response to the second input. Thereafter, the user may make a touch input to the second area 12 or the control 14, and the control 14 is configured to move the icon in the second area 12 to the first area in case that the user touch input is received. As shown in (b) of fig. 5, the electronic device may move 5 icons other than the icon 2 and the icon 4 among the 7 icons to the first area 10 in response to the touch input, and display the icon 1, the icon 3, the icon 5, the icon 6, and the icon 7 at other positions than the first position 13 in the first area 10.

It will be appreciated that after the electronic device displays the N-M icons at locations other than the first location in the first area, no icons of the N icons are included in the second area. In the case where the second area is an area in the hover frame, the electronic device may cancel displaying the hover frame.

The embodiment of the invention provides an icon arranging method, when N icons are displayed in a first area of a target interface, if a user wants to arrange the display positions of the icons, the user can trigger electronic equipment to move the N icons to a second area of the target interface through one input, then select M icons needing to be assigned to the display positions from the N icons, and move the M icons to the first position in the first area. In this way, the electronic device can display M icons at the first position and display other icons of the N icons at other positions than the first position in the first area. Namely, the embodiment of the invention can specify the display positions for a plurality of icons in the target interface without repeated arrangement of the icons by a user, thereby simplifying the process of arranging the icons by the electronic equipment.

Optionally, if the number of icons in the target interface is larger, after the electronic device moves the N icons from the first area to the second area, the electronic device may not be able to display all the icons in one display interface of the second area, so that it is inconvenient for the user to select M icons from the N icons, and therefore, the electronic device may perform the reduction processing on the N icons and display the N icons after the reduction processing in the second area.

For example, after S202, before S203, the icon sorting method provided by the embodiment of the present invention may further include S05 described below.

S205, the electronic equipment displays N icons in the second area according to a preset proportion.

The preset proportion is smaller than the display proportion of the N icons in the first area. For example, if the display scale of the N icons in the first area is a first scale and the display scale in the second area is a second scale, the second scale is smaller than the first scale.

Optionally, the user may set the display proportions of the N icons in the second area through the following two implementation manners. The first implementation way is: the user may input a fixed value, and the electronic device may determine the fixed value as a preset ratio in response to the input, so that the electronic device may display the N icons in the second area according to the fixed value after moving the N icons from the first area to the second area of the target interface. The second implementation mode is as follows: after the electronic device moves the N icons from the first area to the second area of the target interface, the electronic device may display the N icons in the second area according to the display proportion of the N icons in the first area, and then the user may perform adjustment input on the display proportion of the N icons according to the visual effect, so that the electronic device may respond to the adjustment input and adjust the display proportion of the N icons in the second area to be a preset proportion.

For example, taking the second implementation manner as an example, after the electronic device moves the N icons from the first area to the second area of the target interface, the target interface of the electronic device may include a scaling control, and the user may input the scaling control, so that the electronic device may respond to the user input and display a scaling input box, the user may input the display scale of the N icons in the scaling input box, and the display scale of the N icons in the first area may be within a range of (0%, 100%) as an example, so that the electronic device may determine the display scale of the user input as a preset scale, and adjust the display scale of the N icons according to the preset scale.

It should be noted that, because the second area has a limited size, all the icons may not be displayed, and thus, the second area may include at least one display interface, and each display interface may include at least one icon. The number of the display interfaces may be determined according to the value of N and the display scale of the N icons. For example, if N is 10, and each display interface may include 6 icons with a display ratio of 75%, the number of display interfaces may be 2; if N is 10, and each display interface may include 4 icons with a display ratio of 100%, the number of display interfaces may be 3.

In the embodiment of the invention, the electronic equipment can display N icons in the second area according to the display proportion of the N icons in the first area, so that the display proportion of the icons in the second area can be reduced when the second area displays a fixed number of icons, the occupation proportion of the second area in the target interface can be reduced, and the occupation proportion of the first area in the target interface can be improved, so that a user can conveniently determine the icon display position in the first area and drag the icons to the determined icon display position.

Optionally, in the process of arranging the N icons in the target interface, the user may only want to specify a specific position of a part of the N icons, and there is no specific requirement for positions of other icons in the N icons, so after the electronic device displays the M icons in the first position, the user may make an input to the other icons, and in response to the input, the electronic device may display the other icons in other display positions in the first area except for the display position of the part of the icons.

For example, after the "the electronic device displays M icons at the first location in response to the second input" in S204, before the "displays N-M icons at other locations than the first location in the first area" in S204, the icon sorting method provided by the embodiment of the present invention may further include S206 described below, where the "displays N-M icons at other locations than the first location in the first area" in S204 may be implemented specifically by S204a described below.

S206, the electronic device receives a third input to the first control.

Optionally, the first control may be configured to move the icon in the second area to the first area when the user touch input is received. For the specific implementation of the first control, reference may be made to the description of the control 14 in S204, which is not repeated here.

Optionally, the third input may be a touch input of the user to the first control, for example, the user may perform a click input or a long press input on the first control.

And S204a, the electronic equipment responds to the third input, and displays the N-M icons at other positions except the first position in the first area according to the display sequence of the N-M icons in the second area.

The N-M icons may be icons other than M icons out of the N icons.

In the embodiment of the invention, the electronic device can display the N-M icons at other positions except the first position in the first area according to the display sequence of the N-M icons in the second area. For example, as shown in fig. 5, if the display order of the N-M icons in the second area is icon 1, icon 3, icon 5, icon 6, and icon 7, the electronic device may move icon 1, icon 3, icon 5, icon 6, and icon 7 to the first area 10 in response to the third input, and sequentially display icon 1, icon 3, icon 5, icon 6, and icon 7 in the first area 10 at other positions than the first position 13.

It should be noted that, for the description related to the electronic device displaying N-M icons at other positions than the first position in the first area, reference may be made to the description related to S204, which is not repeated here.

In the embodiment of the invention, the electronic equipment can receive and respond to the third input of the user to the first control, and display the N-M icons at other positions except the first position in the first area according to the display sequence of the N-M icons in the second area, so that the electronic equipment can finish the arrangement of the display positions of the N icons quickly under the condition that the display sequence of the N-M icons is not specifically required by the user.

Optionally, after the electronic device displays the M icons at the first position, in order to quickly achieve the purpose of sorting the display sequence of the N-M icons, the electronic device may automatically adjust the display sequence of the N-M icons in the second area according to the input of the user to the control, so that the electronic device may display the N-M icons at other positions of the first area except the first position according to the adjusted sequence.

For example, after S202, before S206, the icon sorting method provided by the embodiment of the present invention may further include S207 and S208 described below.

S207, the electronic device receives a fourth input to the second control.

Alternatively, the second control may be the same control as the first control in S206, or may be a control different from the first control.

In the case where the second control is the same control as the first control, the fourth input may be a touch input different from the third input in S210, for example, if the third input is a click input of the first control by the user, the fourth input may be a long press input of the second control by the user.

In the case that the second control is a control different from the first control, the fourth input may be the same touch input as the third input, for example, the third input may be a long press input of the user to the first control, and the fourth input may be a long press input of the user to the second control.

S208, the electronic equipment responds to the fourth input, and rearranges the display sequence of the N-M icons in the second area according to a preset rule.

Wherein, the preset rule may include at least one of the following: the color of the icon, the name of the icon, the type of the application corresponding to the icon, the installation time of the application corresponding to the icon, and the storage path of the application corresponding to the icon.

The electronic device may sort the N-M icons according to the preset rule, so as to determine a display order of the N-M icons. Wherein each category may include at least one icon, and the icons included in different categories may be different.

For example, taking a preset rule as the color of the icon, and taking the color of the N-M icons as an example, the color of the N-M icons includes color 1, color 2 and color 3, wherein the icon with the color of the icon being color 1 includes icon 1 and icon 2, the icon with the color of the icon being color 2 includes icon 3, and the icon with the color of the icon being color 3 includes icon 4. Since the three kinds of icon color arrangement combinations include 6 kinds, the display order of the four icons also includes at least 6 kinds. For example, when three kinds of icon colors are arranged and combined in a manner of color 3, color 2, and color 1, the display order of four icons may be icon 4, icon 3, icon 1, and icon 2.

Optionally, the electronic device may obtain a plurality of N-M arrangements of icons according to the result of the N-M arrangement and combination of the icons. And then, the electronic equipment can display the N-M icons in the second area according to an arrangement mode after receiving the touch input of the user to the second control once. The electronic equipment can switch an arrangement mode by performing touch input on the second control every time. In the case where the N-M icons are displayed in all arrangements, the electronic device may display the N-M icons again in the initial arrangement.

Illustratively, as shown in (a) of fig. 6, the target interface includes the second control 15, and the n-M icons are initially arranged in the form of icon 3, icon 4, icon 5, icon 6, and icon 7. After the user makes one-click input to the second control 15, as shown in (b) of fig. 6, the arrangement of N-M icons may be switched to icon 3, icon 5, icon 7, icon 6, and icon 4. After the user performs the second click input on the second control 15, as shown in (c) of fig. 6, the arrangement of N-M icons may be switched to icon 3, icon 6, icon 5, icon 4, and icon 7.

In the embodiment of the invention, because the electronic equipment can respond to the input of the user and rearrange the display sequence of the N-M icons in the second area according to the preset rule, the electronic equipment can quickly sort the display sequence of the N-M icons, so that the electronic equipment can display the N-M icons in the first area according to the sorted sequence.

Alternatively, in the case where the N icons include icons of the folder, if the user wants to remove the icons of the folder from the folder, the user may trigger the electronic device to display the icons of the folder.

For example, after S202 described above, the icon arrangement method provided by the embodiment of the present invention may further include S209 and S210 described below.

S209, the electronic device receives a fifth input of an icon of the target folder in a case where at least one icon of the N icons is displayed in the second area.

Alternatively, the icon of the target folder may be an icon in the first area or the second area, that is, the icon of the target folder may be any one of N icons.

The icon of the target folder may be one of the M icons or one of the N-M icons. For example, when the M icons include an icon of at least one folder, the user may determine that one icon is an icon of the target folder from among the icons of the at least one folder, and then the electronic device may receive a fifth input of the icon of the target folder from the user.

Optionally, the fifth input may be a touch input. For example, the touch input may be a click input or a long press input of an icon of the target folder by the user, or the like.

It will be appreciated that in the case where no icon is displayed in the second area, the electronic device may receive a fifth input from the user to the icon of the target folder and display a hover frame in the target interface in a manner known in the art, where the hover frame may include the icon in the target folder, and thus, no other icon is included in the target interface than the icon in the target folder.

And S210, the electronic device responds to the fifth input, keeps displaying at least one icon in the first subarea of the second area, and displays the icon included in the target folder in the second subarea of the second area.

In the embodiment of the invention, the second region may include a first sub-region and a second sub-region, where the first sub-region may be used to display an icon in the N icons, and the second sub-region may be used to display an icon in the target folder, and the icon of the target folder may be any icon in the N icons.

Illustratively, as shown in (a) of fig. 7, the first area includes the icon 16 and the icon 2 of the target folder, and the second area includes the icon 3, the icon 4, the icon 5, the icon 6, and the icon 7. After the user makes a fifth input to the icon 16 of the target folder, as shown in (b) of fig. 7, the electronic device may display a first sub-region, which may include the icon 3, the icon 4, the icon 5, the icon 6, and the hidden icon 7, and a second sub-region, which may include the sub-icon 1, the sub-icon 2, and the sub-icon 3 in the target folder.

It should be noted that, the first sub-area and the second sub-area may include at least one display interface, and the user may trigger the electronic device to switch and display different display interfaces of the first sub-area through a sliding operation on the first sub-area; and triggering the electronic equipment to switch and display different display interfaces of the second subarea through sliding operation of the second subarea.

In the embodiment of the invention, because the electronic device can display the icons included in the target folder in the second sub-area, the user can determine at least one icon from the icons included in the target folder and trigger the electronic device to process the at least one icon.

Optionally, after the electronic device displays the icon included in the target folder in the second sub-region of the second region, the user may determine at least one icon from the icons included in the target folder, and input the at least one icon, so that the electronic device may sort the position of the at least one icon in response to the input.

For example, after "displaying the icon included in the target folder in the second sub-region of the second region" in S210 above, the icon arrangement method provided by the embodiment of the present invention may further include S211 to S212 described below.

S211, the electronic device receives a sixth input of moving a target icon in icons included in the target folder to a second position in the first area.

Alternatively, the sixth input may be an input to move the target icon to the second position. Specifically, after the user determines the target icon, the user may press the target icon first to make the target icon be in a movable state, and then, the user may drag the target icon to the second position.

Alternatively, the target icon may be an icon specified by the user among icons included in the target folder.

In the embodiment of the invention, when the icon included in the target folder is displayed in the second sub-region of the second region, the user may determine that at least one icon is the target icon from among the icons included in the target folder, and then the user may perform a sixth input of dragging the target icon to the second position in the first region.

S212, the electronic device responds to the sixth input and displays a target icon at the second position.

The electronic device may receive the sixth input and cancel display of the target icon in the second sub-region and display the target icon in the second position of the first region in response to the sixth input.

It is understood that the second position is a different icon display position in the first region from the first position. I.e. a first position may be used for displaying an icon of the N icons and a second position may be used for displaying an icon of the target folder.

After displaying the target icon at the second position, the electronic device may display N-M icons at other positions except the first position and the second position in the first area, and if all the N-M icons cannot be displayed at other positions in the first area, the electronic device may newly add a display interface and display an icon which cannot be displayed in the first area of the target interface in the first area of the newly added display interface.

In the embodiment of the invention, the user can determine the target icon from the folder and perform the sixth input on the target icon, so that the electronic equipment can receive and respond to the sixth input of moving the target icon to the second position in the first area, and display the target icon at the second position, thereby enabling the electronic equipment to sort the positions of the icons in the folder according to the wish of the user.

As shown in fig. 8, an embodiment of the present invention provides an electronic device 800. The electronic device 800 may include a receiving module 801, a processing module 802, and a display module 803. The receiving module 801 may be configured to receive a first input of N icons in a first region of a target interface. The processing module 802 may be configured to move the N icons from the first area to the second area of the target interface in response to the first input received by the receiving module 801. The receiving module 801 may also be configured to receive a second input to move M icons of the N icons to a first position in the first area. The display module 803 may be configured to display M icons at a first location and N-M icons, which are icons other than M icons among the N icons, at other locations than the first location in the first area in response to the second input received by the receiving module 801. Wherein N and M are both positive integers, and M is less than or equal to N.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present invention, the receiving module 801 may be further configured to receive a third input to the first control before the display module 803 displays the N-M icons in the first area at positions other than the first position. The display module 803 may be specifically configured to display N-M icons in a position other than the first position in the first area in the display order of the N-M icons in the second area in response to the third input received by the receiving module 801.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present invention, the receiving module 801 may be further configured to receive a fourth input to the second control before receiving the third input to the first control. The processing module 802 may be further configured to rearrange the display order of the N-M icons in the second area according to a preset rule in response to the fourth input received by the receiving module 801, where the preset rule may include at least one of the following: the color of the icon, the name of the icon, the type of the application corresponding to the icon, the installation time of the application corresponding to the icon, and the storage path of the application corresponding to the icon.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present invention, the receiving module 801 may be further configured to, when at least one icon of the N icons is displayed in the second area, receive a fifth input of an icon of a target folder, where the icon of the target folder is an icon in the first area or the second area. The display module 803 may be further configured to keep displaying at least one icon in the first sub-area of the second area and display an icon included in the target folder in the second sub-area of the second area in response to the fifth input received by the receiving module 801.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present invention, the receiving module 801 may be further configured to receive, after the displaying module 803 displays the icons included in the target folder in the second sub-area of the second area, a sixth input for moving the target icon in the icons included in the target folder to the second position in the first area. The display module 803 may be further configured to display the target icon at the second location in response to the sixth input received by the receiving module 801.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present invention, the display module 803 may be further configured to display N icons in a preset ratio in the second area after the processing module 802 moves the N icons from the first area to the second area of the target interface, where the preset ratio is smaller than a display ratio of the N icons in the first area.

The electronic device provided by the embodiment of the present invention can implement each process implemented by the electronic device in the above method embodiment, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

The embodiment of the invention provides electronic equipment, when N icons are displayed in a first area of a target interface, if a user wants to arrange the display positions of the icons, the user can trigger the electronic equipment to move the N icons to a second area of the target interface through one input, then select M icons needing to be assigned to the display positions from the N icons, and move the M icons to the first position in the first area. In this way, the electronic device can display M icons at the first position and display other icons of the N icons at other positions than the first position in the first area. Namely, the embodiment of the invention can specify the display positions for a plurality of icons in the target interface without repeated arrangement of the icons by a user, thereby simplifying the process of arranging the icons by the electronic equipment.

Fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an electronic device implementing various embodiments of the present invention. As shown in fig. 9, the electronic device 100 includes, but is not limited to: radio frequency unit 101, network module 102, audio output unit 103, input unit 104, sensor 105, display unit 106, user input unit 107, interface unit 108, memory 109, processor 110, and power supply 111. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the electronic device structure shown in fig. 9 does not constitute a limitation of the electronic device, and the electronic device may include more or less components than illustrated, or may combine certain components, or may have a different arrangement of components. In the embodiment of the invention, the electronic equipment comprises, 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.

Wherein the processor 110 may be configured to control the user input unit 107 to receive a first input of N icons in a first area of the target interface; and means for moving the N icons from the first area to a second area of the target interface in response to the first input.

The processor 110 may be further configured to control the user input unit 107 to receive a second input to move M icons of the N icons to a first position in the first area; and a control unit 106 for controlling the display unit to display M icons at the first position and N-M icons, which are icons other than the M icons among the N icons, at positions other than the first position in the first area in response to the second input. Wherein N and M are both positive integers, and M is less than or equal to N.

It may be appreciated that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the receiving module 801 in the schematic structural diagram of the electronic device (for example, fig. 8) may be implemented by the user input unit 107, the processing module 802 may be implemented by the processor 110, and the display module 803 may be implemented by the display unit 106.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the radio frequency unit 101 may be configured to receive and send information or signals during a call, specifically, receive downlink data from a base station, and then process the received downlink data with the processor 110; and, the uplink data is transmitted to the base station. Typically, the radio frequency unit 101 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, at least one amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, and the like. In addition, the radio frequency unit 101 may also communicate with networks and other devices through a wireless communication system.

The electronic device provides wireless broadband internet access to the user through the network module 102, such as helping the user to send and receive e-mail, browse web pages, access streaming media, and the like.

The audio output unit 103 may convert audio data received by the radio frequency unit 101 or the network module 102 or stored in the memory 109 into an audio signal and output as sound. Also, the audio output unit 103 may also provide audio output (e.g., a call signal reception sound, a message reception sound, etc.) related to a specific function performed by the electronic device 100. The audio output unit 103 includes a speaker, a buzzer, a receiver, and the like.

The input unit 104 is used for receiving an audio or video signal. The input unit 104 may include a graphics processor (graphics processing unit, GPU) 1041 and a microphone 1042, the graphics processor 1041 processing image data of still pictures or video obtained by an image capturing device (e.g., a camera) in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The processed image frames may be displayed on the display unit 106. The image frames processed by the graphics processor 1041 may be stored in the memory 109 (or other storage medium) or transmitted via the radio frequency unit 101 or the network module 102. Microphone 1042 may receive sound and be capable of processing such sound into audio data. The processed audio data may be converted into a format output that can be transmitted to the mobile communication base station via the radio frequency unit 101 in the case of a telephone call mode.

The electronic device 100 also includes at least one sensor 105, such as a light sensor, a motion sensor, and other sensors. Specifically, the light sensor includes an ambient light sensor and a proximity sensor, wherein the ambient light sensor can adjust the brightness of the display panel 1061 according to the brightness of ambient light, and the proximity sensor can turn off the display panel 1061 and/or the backlight when the electronic device 100 moves to the ear. As one of the motion sensors, the accelerometer sensor can detect the acceleration in all directions (generally three axes), and can detect the gravity and direction when stationary, and can be used for recognizing the gesture of the electronic equipment (such as horizontal and vertical screen switching, related games, magnetometer gesture calibration), vibration recognition related functions (such as pedometer and knocking), and the like; the sensor 105 may further include a fingerprint sensor, a pressure sensor, an iris sensor, a molecular sensor, a gyroscope, a barometer, a hygrometer, a thermometer, an infrared sensor, etc., which are not described herein.

The display unit 106 is used to display information input by a user or information provided to the user. The display unit 106 may include a display panel 1061, and the display panel 1061 may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display (liquid crystal display, LCD), an organic light-emitting diode (OLED), or the like.

The user input unit 107 is operable to receive input numeric or character information and to generate key signal inputs related to user settings and function control of the electronic device. Specifically, the user input unit 107 includes a touch panel 1071 and other input devices 1072. The touch panel 1071, also referred to as a touch screen, may collect touch operations thereon or thereabout by a user (e.g., operations of the user on the touch panel 1071 or thereabout using any suitable object or accessory such as a finger, stylus, etc.). The touch panel 1071 may include two parts of a touch detection device and a touch controller. The touch detection device detects the touch azimuth 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 detection device, converts the touch information into touch point coordinates, and sends the touch point coordinates to the processor 110, and receives and executes commands sent by the processor 110. Further, the touch panel 1071 may be implemented in various types such as resistive, capacitive, infrared, and surface acoustic wave. The user input unit 107 may include other input devices 1072 in addition to the touch panel 1071. In particular, other input devices 1072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (e.g., volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, and a joystick, which are not described in detail herein.

Further, the touch panel 1071 may be overlaid on the display panel 1061, and when the touch panel 1071 detects a touch operation thereon or nearby, the touch operation is transmitted to the processor 110 to determine the type of touch event, and then the processor 110 provides a corresponding visual output on the display panel 1061 according to the type of touch event. Although in fig. 9, the touch panel 1071 and the display panel 1061 are two independent components for implementing the input and output functions of the electronic device, in some embodiments, the touch panel 1071 may be integrated with the display panel 1061 to implement the input and output functions of the electronic device, which is not limited herein.

The interface unit 108 is an interface to which an external device is connected to the electronic apparatus 100. For example, the external devices may include a wired or wireless headset port, an external power (or battery charger) port, a wired or wireless data port, a memory card port, a port for connecting a device having an identification module, an audio input/output (I/O) port, a video I/O port, an earphone port, and the like. The interface unit 108 may be used to receive input (e.g., data information, power, etc.) from an external device and transmit the received input to one or more elements within the electronic apparatus 100 or may be used to transmit data between the electronic apparatus 100 and an external device.

Memory 109 may be used to store software programs as well as various data. The memory 109 may mainly include a storage program area that may store an operating system, application programs required for at least one function (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.), and a storage data area; the storage data area may store data (such as audio data, phonebook, etc.) created according to the use of the handset, etc. In addition, memory 109 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 110 is a control center of the electronic device, connects various parts of the entire electronic device using various interfaces and lines, and performs various functions of the electronic device and processes data by running or executing software programs and/or modules stored in the memory 109, and calling data stored in the memory 109, thereby performing overall monitoring of the electronic device. Processor 110 may include one or more processing units; alternatively, the processor 110 may integrate an application processor that primarily handles the operating system, the user first interface, and applications, etc., with a modem processor that primarily handles wireless communications. It will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into the processor 110.

The electronic device 100 may also include a power supply 111 (e.g., a battery) for powering the various components, and optionally the power supply 111 may be logically connected to the processor 110 via a power management system that performs functions such as managing charging, discharging, and power consumption.

In addition, the electronic device 100 includes some functional modules, which are not shown, and will not be described herein.

Optionally, the embodiment of the present invention further provides an electronic device, including a processor 110 shown in fig. 9, a memory 109, and a computer program stored in the memory 109 and capable of running on the processor 110, where the computer program when executed by the processor 110 implements each process of the above embodiment of the icon sorting method, and the same technical effects can be achieved, so that repetition is avoided, and no further description is given here.

The embodiment of the invention also provides a computer readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored, which when executed by a processor, implements the processes of the icon arranging method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effects, and in order to avoid repetition, the description is omitted here. The computer readable storage medium may include, among others, read-only memory (ROM), random access memory (random access memory, RAM), magnetic or optical disks, and the like.

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 one … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

From the above description of the embodiments, it will be clear to those skilled in the art that the above-described embodiment method may be implemented by means of software plus a necessary general hardware platform, but of course may also be implemented by means of hardware, but in many cases the former is a preferred embodiment. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present application may be embodied essentially or in a part contributing to the prior art in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium (e.g. ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) comprising several instructions for causing an electronic device (which may be a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device, etc.) to perform the method according to the embodiments of the present application.

The embodiments of the present application have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, but the present application is not limited to the above-described embodiments, which are merely illustrative and not restrictive, and many forms may be made by those having ordinary skill in the art without departing from the spirit of the present application and the scope of the claims, which are to be protected by the present application.

Claims

1. An icon sorting method applied to electronic equipment is characterized by comprising the following steps:

receiving a first input of N icons in a first area of a target interface;

responsive to the first input, moving the N icons from the first area to a second area of the target interface;

receiving a second input moving M icons of the N icons to a first position in the first area;

displaying the M icons at the first location in response to the second input;

receiving a fifth input of an icon of a target folder in the N icons;

in response to the fifth input, maintaining at least one icon displayed in a first sub-region of the second region, and displaying an icon included in the target folder in a second sub-region of the second region;

Receiving a sixth input of moving a target icon of icons included in the target folder to a second position in the first area;

displaying the target icon at the second location in response to the sixth input;

receiving a fourth input to the second control;

rearranging the display order of the N-M icons in the second area according to a preset rule in response to the fourth input;

receiving a third input to the first control;

responsive to the third input, displaying the N-M icons in the first area at other positions than the first position in a display order of the N-M icons in the second area; the N-M icons are icons except the M icons in the N icons;

wherein N and M are both positive integers, and M is less than or equal to N.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the preset rules include at least one of: the color of the icon, the name of the icon, the type of the application corresponding to the icon, the installation time of the application corresponding to the icon, and the storage path of the application corresponding to the icon.

3. The method of any one of claims 1 or 2, wherein the icon of the target folder is an icon in the first region or the second region.

4. The method of any one of claims 1 or 2, wherein after the moving the N icons from the first region to the second region of the target interface, the method further comprises:

and displaying the N icons in the second area according to a preset proportion, wherein the preset proportion is smaller than the display proportion of the N icons in the first area.

5. An electronic device is characterized by comprising a receiving module, a processing module and a display module;

the receiving module is used for receiving first inputs of N icons in a first area of the target interface;

the processing module is used for responding to the first input received by the receiving module and moving the N icons from the first area to a second area of the target interface;

the receiving module is further configured to receive a second input that moves M icons of the N icons to a first position in the first area;

the display module is used for responding to the second input received by the receiving module and displaying the M icons at the first position;

the receiving module is further used for receiving a fifth input of the icon of the target folder;

The display module is further configured to keep displaying at least one icon in a first sub-area of the second area and display an icon included in the target folder in a second sub-area of the second area in response to the fifth input received by the receiving module;

the receiving module is further configured to receive a sixth input for moving a target icon from among icons included in the target folder to a second position in the first area;

the display module is further configured to display the target icon at the second location in response to the sixth input received by the receiving module;

the receiving module is further used for receiving a fourth input to the second control;

the processing module is further configured to rearrange the display order of the N-M icons in the second area according to a preset rule in response to the fourth input received by the receiving module;

the receiving module is further used for receiving a third input to the first control;

the display module is further configured to display the N-M icons in a position other than the first position in the first area according to a display order of the N-M icons in the second area in response to the third input received by the receiving module; the N-M icons are icons except the M icons in the N icons;

Wherein N and M are both positive integers, and M is less than or equal to N.

6. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein the receiving module is further configured to receive a fourth input to the second control prior to the receiving the third input to the first control;

the processing module is further configured to rearrange, in response to the fourth input received by the receiving module, a display order of the N-M icons in the second area according to a preset rule, where the preset rule includes at least one of: the color of the icon, the name of the icon, the type of the application corresponding to the icon, the installation time of the application corresponding to the icon, and the storage path of the application corresponding to the icon.

7. The electronic device of any one of claims 5 or 6, wherein the icon of the target folder is an icon in the first region or the second region.

8. The electronic device of any one of claims 5 or 6, wherein the display module is further configured to display the N icons in a preset ratio in a second area of the target interface after the processing module moves the N icons from the first area to the second area, the preset ratio being smaller than a display ratio of the N icons in the first area.