CN111459349A

CN111459349A - Application recommendation method and electronic equipment

Info

Publication number: CN111459349A
Application number: CN202010229424.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 雷夏飞
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-03-27
Filing date: 2020-03-27
Publication date: 2020-07-28
Anticipated expiration: 2040-03-27
Also published as: CN111459349B

Abstract

The embodiment of the application recommendation method and the electronic equipment relate to the technical field of communication and solve the problem that the operation of searching for an APP icon in a desktop interface is inconvenient. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a first input of an icon of a first application in the desktop interface, wherein the icon of the first application is an icon corresponding to the installed first application of the electronic equipment; responding to the first input, displaying a first interface on the desktop interface, and displaying icons of M second applications in the first interface; wherein the second application is an application belonging to the same application type as the first application, and the M second applications include at least one of: the electronic device comprises an installed application and an uninstalled application, and M is a positive integer. The method can be applied to the scene of rapidly searching the APP of the same type.

Description

Application recommendation method and electronic equipment

Technical Field

The embodiment of the application relates to the technical field of communication, in particular to an application recommendation method and electronic equipment.

Background

With the development of electronic technology and communication technology, the functions of electronic equipment are more and more diversified, application programs of the electronic equipment are more and more abundant, and people can learn, work, socialize and the like by using the electronic equipment.

At present, a large number of Applications (APPs) are generally installed in an electronic device, which inevitably causes a large number of APP icons to be displayed on a desktop interface of the electronic device. If the application icons are not classified and placed in the folder, a large number of APP icons can be randomly displayed on the desktop interface, and the user cannot conveniently search the APP icons. If the APP icons are placed into different folders after being classified, if a user needs to use a certain APP, the user needs to open a certain folder, then the APP icons are searched in the folder, if the APP icons do not exist in the folder, the user needs to open another folder, then the APP icons are searched in the folder, and therefore the operation of searching the APP icons by the user is complex, time-consuming and labor-consuming.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application recommendation method and the electronic equipment can solve the problem that the operation of searching the APP icon in the existing desktop interface is not convenient and fast.

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

in a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an application recommendation method, which is applied to an electronic device, and the method includes: receiving a first input of an icon of a first application in the desktop interface, wherein the icon of the first application is an icon corresponding to the installed first application of the electronic equipment; responding to the first input, displaying a first interface on the desktop interface, and displaying icons of M second applications in the first interface; wherein the second application is an application belonging to the same application type as the first application, and the M second applications include at least one of: the electronic device comprises an installed application and an uninstalled application, and M is a positive integer.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an electronic device, which includes a receiving module and a display module. The receiving module is used for receiving a first input of an icon of a first application in the desktop interface, wherein the icon of the first application is an icon corresponding to the installed first application of the electronic equipment. The display module is used for responding to the first input received by the receiving module, displaying a first interface on the desktop interface and displaying M icons of the second application in the first interface; wherein the second application is an application belonging to the same application type as the first application, and the M second applications include at least one of: the electronic device comprises an installed application and an uninstalled application, and M is a positive integer.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an electronic device, which includes a processor, a memory, and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, and when executed by the processor, the electronic device implements the steps of the application recommendation method in the first aspect.

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

In an embodiment of the application, a first input to an icon of a first application in a desktop interface may be received, where the icon of the first application is an icon corresponding to an installed first application of an electronic device; responding to the first input, displaying a first interface on the desktop interface, and displaying icons of M second applications in the first interface; wherein the second application is an application belonging to the same application type as the first application, and the M second applications include at least one of: the electronic device comprises an installed application and an uninstalled application, and M is a positive integer. The application recommendation method provided by the embodiment of the application recommendation method can be applied to rapidly searching scenes of similar applications, a small number of application icons can be displayed in a desktop interface under the condition that a large number of applications are installed in electronic equipment, each application icon can be used as an entrance for rapidly displaying icons of related applications, and the electronic equipment can be triggered to display icons of a plurality of applications similar to the first application to a user by inputting the icon of the first application displayed in the desktop interface, so that the user can conveniently and rapidly search, and the application icons can be prevented from being displayed on the desktop interface disorderly and indiscriminately.

Drawings

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

fig. 2 is a schematic flowchart of an application recommendation method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 is one of schematic interfaces of an application recommendation method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a second schematic interface diagram of an application of the application recommendation method according to the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 is a third schematic interface diagram of an application of the application recommendation method according to the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6 is a fourth schematic interface diagram of an application of the application recommendation method according to the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present application;

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

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present application. 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.

The term "and/or" herein is an association relationship describing an associated object, meaning that three relationships may exist, e.g., a and/or B, may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist simultaneously, and B exists alone. The symbol "/" herein denotes a relationship in which the associated object is or, for example, a/B denotes a or B.

The terms "first" and "second," and the like, in the description and in the claims herein are used for distinguishing between different objects and not for describing a particular order of the objects. For example, the first input and the second input, etc. are for distinguishing different inputs, rather than for describing a particular order of inputs.

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

In the description of the embodiments of the present application, unless otherwise specified, "a plurality" means two or more, for example, a plurality of processing units means two or more processing units, or the like; plural elements means two or more elements, and the like.

The electronic device in the embodiment of the present application may be an electronic device having an operating system. The operating system may be an Android (Android) operating system, an ios operating system, or other possible operating systems, and embodiments of the present application are not limited specifically.

In the following, an android operating system is taken as an example, and a software environment applied by the application recommendation method provided by the embodiment of the application is introduced.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an architecture of a possible android operating system provided in an embodiment of the present application, in fig. 1, the architecture of the android operating system includes 4 layers, which are an application layer, an application framework layer, a system runtime layer, and a kernel layer (specifically, L inux kernel layer).

The application program layer comprises various application programs (including system application programs and third-party application programs) in an android operating system.

The application framework layer is a framework of the application, and a developer can develop some applications based on the application framework layer under the condition of complying with the development principle of the framework of the application.

The system runtime layer includes libraries (also called 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 lowest layer of a software layer of the android operating system, and the kernel layer provides core system services and hardware-related drivers for the android operating system based on L inux kernels.

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

The electronic device in the embodiment of the application may be a mobile terminal or a non-mobile terminal. For example, the mobile terminal may be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palm top computer, a vehicle-mounted terminal, a wearable device, an ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC), a netbook or a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), and the like, and the non-mobile terminal may be a Personal Computer (PC), a Television (TV), a teller machine, a self-service machine, and the like, and the embodiment of the present application is not particularly limited.

An execution subject of the application recommendation method provided in the embodiment of the present application may be the electronic device, or may also be a functional module and/or a functional entity capable of implementing the application recommendation method in the electronic device, which may be specifically determined according to actual use requirements, and the embodiment of the present application is not limited. The following takes an electronic device as an example, and with reference to each drawing, an application recommendation method provided in the embodiments of the present application is exemplarily described.

At present, electronic equipment is usually provided with a large number of Applications (APPs), so that a large number of application icons are inevitably displayed on a desktop interface of the electronic equipment, and if the application icons are not classified and placed in a folder, a large number of application icons are disorderly displayed on the desktop interface, which is inconvenient for a user to search for the application icons; if the application icons are classified and then placed into different folders, if a user needs to use a certain application, the user needs to open a certain folder and then search for the application icon in the folder, if the folder does not contain the application icon, the user needs to open another folder and then search for the application icon in the folder, and therefore the operation of searching for the application icon by the user is complex, time-consuming and labor-consuming.

In view of this, the embodiment of the present application provides a solution, which can implement convenient interface operation and intelligent application recommendation, and solve the defects of repeated operation, complexity and unfriendly interface when a user searches for homogeneous applications (i.e., applications of the same type).

As shown in fig. 2, an embodiment of the present application provides an application recommendation method, which may include steps 201 to 202 described below.

Step 201, an electronic device receives a first input of an icon of a first application in a desktop interface.

The icon of the first application is an icon corresponding to the installed first application of the electronic device.

In the embodiment of the application, the electronic device may display a small number of application icons on a desktop interface (e.g., a main interface), for example, the electronic device may display application icons corresponding to representative applications (e.g., applications frequently used by a user) on the desktop interface. Wherein, for each application type, one application icon may be displayed.

Specifically, the icon of the first application may be a representative application icon displayed on the desktop interface. For example, the first application icon may be an icon corresponding to any one of the following applications: social applications, reading applications, shopping applications, video applications, game applications.

It should be noted that the application types are exemplified and listed here, and it is understood that the embodiments of the present application include, but are not limited to, the application types listed above, which can be determined according to actual use requirements, and the embodiments of the present application are not limited.

For example, as shown in (a) in fig. 3, icons corresponding to different types of applications, such as a "social APP 1" icon 32, a "reading APP 1" icon 33, a "shopping APP 1" icon 34, and a "video APP 1" icon 35, may be displayed on the desktop interface 31, and these icons may be icons corresponding to applications commonly used by the user, so that the user can find and use the icons quickly at any time.

In the embodiment of the application, when a few frequently-used application icons are displayed on the desktop interface, a user can display other application icons related to the application icon to the user by performing first input on one application icon in the few frequently-used application icons, and therefore the user can conveniently and quickly search the application icon.

Specifically, under the condition that an icon of a first application is displayed on a desktop interface, if a user needs to view an icon of a second application on the desktop interface, and the second application and the first application belong to the same application type, the user can perform a first input on the icon of the first application to trigger the electronic device to display icons of other applications associated with the icon of the first application, wherein the icons of the other applications include the icon of the second application, so that the user can quickly find the same application through a certain application.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the first input may be a long-press input (that is, a press input with a press duration exceeding a preset duration) of the icon of the first application by the user (for example, by using a finger or an electronic pen), may also be a double-click input of the icon of the first application by the user, or may be any other input meeting an actual use requirement, which may specifically be determined according to the actual use requirement, and this embodiment of the application is not limited.

Step 202, the electronic device responds to the first input, displays a first interface on the desktop interface, and displays icons of M second applications in the first interface, wherein the second applications are applications belonging to the same application type as the first applications.

The term "M" refers to a positive integer and a preset value, for example, M may be preset to 5 or 10, and may be determined according to actual use requirements.

The icons of the M second applications are M icons that correspond to the M second applications one to one.

In this embodiment of the application, an application type (i.e., a classification of applications) of an application may be determined according to a function or an attribute of the application, for example, an application with a game attribute belongs to a game application, an application with a chat session function belongs to a communication application, and may specifically be determined according to an actual use requirement, which is not limited in this embodiment of the application.

Optionally, each application is accompanied by a corresponding application type flag, and the application type flag is used for indicating the application type of the application. Accordingly, the electronic device may determine whether two or more applications belong to the same application type or determine which applications belong to the same application type according to the type flag of the application.

In this embodiment of the application, the display size of the first interface may be smaller than or equal to the display size of the desktop interface. Specifically, the display size, the display position, and the display shape of the first interface may be determined according to actual use requirements, and the embodiment of the present application is not limited.

Since icons of a plurality of applications belonging to the same application type may be displayed in the first interface, and applications of the same application type may be referred to as a homogeneous application, the first interface may be referred to as a homogeneous application interface.

In an embodiment of the present application, the M second applications may include at least one of: the applications installed in the electronic device and the applications not installed in the electronic device are described below.

Case 1: the M second applications may include M second applications installed in the electronic device. Wherein the M second applications installed are different from each other, and the M second applications are of the same application type as the first application.

Specifically, if the user inputs an icon of a first application displayed in the desktop interface, the electronic device may determine, based on the first application, applications that are downloaded by the electronic device and are of the same type as the first application, then display the icons of the downloaded applications to the user, and recommend the icons to the user for searching and using, which is convenient for the user to operate.

It should be noted that, if, in actual implementation, the electronic device determines that the number of downloaded applications that are the same as the first application is N and N is less than M, the electronic device may display the icons of the N second applications in the first interface.

Case 2: the M second applications may include M second applications that are not installed in the electronic device. Wherein the M second applications that are not installed are different from each other. M is a predetermined number, for example M may be predetermined to be 5.

Specifically, if the user inputs an icon of a first application displayed in the desktop interface, the electronic device may determine, based on the first application, applications that are not downloaded by the electronic device and are of the same type as the first application, then display the icons of the undelivered applications to the user, and recommend the icons to the user for searching and downloading, so as to facilitate the user operation.

It should be noted that, in actual implementation, if the electronic device determines that the number of the applications that are not downloaded and are of the same type as the first application is P and P is less than M, the electronic device may display the icons of the P second applications in the first interface.

Case 3: the M second applications may include R second applications installed in the electronic device and T second applications not installed in the electronic device, where R and S are positive integers, and R + T ═ M. Wherein the M second applications are different from each other.

Specifically, if the user inputs an icon of a first application displayed in the desktop interface, the electronic device may determine, based on the first application, an application that is downloaded by the electronic device and is of the same type as the first application and an application that is not downloaded by the electronic device and is of the same type as the first application, and then display the icon of the downloaded application and the icon of the un-downloaded application to the user, and recommend the user to search for or download the downloaded application and the icon of the un-downloaded application, so that the user can operate the electronic device conveniently.

It should be noted that, in actual implementation, if the electronic device determines that the sum of the R second applications downloaded by the electronic device and the T second applications not downloaded by the electronic device is less than M, the electronic device may display the R second applications and the T second applications in the first interface.

In this case, the icons of the M second applications displayed in the first interface include an icon of an application not installed on the electronic device and an icon of an application not installed on the electronic device, and the M second applications are of the same application type as the first application.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, in response to a first input of the icon of the first application by the user, the electronic device may update a display form of the icon of the first application, for example, update a display color of the icon of the first application, or update a display size of the icon of the first application (for example, the display size of the icon of the first application is larger than that of the icons of the other applications), so as to highlight the icon of the first application and prompt the user that the icon of the first application has been selected.

The application recommendation method provided by the embodiment of the present application is exemplarily described below by taking the first application as a shopping application and taking an icon of the first application as a "shopping APP 1" icon as an example.

As shown in fig. 3 (a), the electronic device may present APP icons (which may be set by a user or by a system) with a high frequency of use in the desktop interface 31, for example, APP icons corresponding to different types of APPs, such as a "social APP 1" icon 32, a "reading APP 1" icon 33, a "shopping APP 1" icon 34, and a "video APP 1" icon 35, are displayed on the desktop interface 31.

If the user needs to search for a shopping APP, and the user makes a first input to the "shopping APP 1" icon 32, as shown in (b) of fig. 3, the electronic device may display the first interface 36, and display M second APP icons in the first interface 36: "shopping APP 2" icon 37, "shopping APP 3" icon 38, "shopping APP 4" icon 39, "shopping APP 5" icon 40, and "shopping APP 6" icon 41.

The shopping APP2 "icon 37 corresponding to the" shopping APP2 "icon 37, the shopping APP3 corresponding to the" shopping APP3 "icon 38, and the shopping APP4 corresponding to the" shopping APP4 "icon 39 are all applications which are installed on the electronic device and are of the same type as the shopping APP1, so that a user can conveniently and quickly find applications of the same type which are installed on the electronic device. Shopping APP5 corresponding to the shopping APP5 icon 40 and shopping APP6 corresponding to the shopping APP6 icon 41 are both applications which are similar to the shopping APP1 and are not installed on the electronic device, so that a user can quickly know which applications are recommended to be installed and used.

In this way, if the user inputs an icon of a first application displayed in the desktop interface, the electronic device may determine a downloaded application and/or an un-downloaded application that is the same kind as the first application based on the first application, and then recommend the downloaded application and/or the un-downloaded application that is the same kind as the first application to the user.

In the embodiment of the application, under the condition that a large number of applications are installed in the electronic device, a small number of application icons can be displayed in the desktop interface, wherein each application icon can be used as an entrance for rapidly displaying an icon of a related application, and the icons of a plurality of applications can be triggered to be displayed to a user by the electronic device through inputting the icon of the first application displayed in the desktop interface, and the applications belong to the same application type as the first application, that is, the applications of the same application type are rapidly displayed to the user, so that the user can conveniently and rapidly search, and the situation that the application icons are randomly displayed on the desktop interface can be avoided.

According to the application recommendation method provided by the embodiment of the application, a first input of a user to an icon of a first application in a desktop interface can be received, wherein the icon of the first application is an icon corresponding to the installed first application of the electronic equipment; responding to the first input, displaying a first interface on the desktop interface, and displaying icons of M second applications in the first interface; wherein the second application is an application belonging to the same application type as the first application, and the M second applications include at least one of: the electronic device comprises an installed application and an uninstalled application, and M is a positive integer. The application recommendation method provided by the embodiment of the application recommendation method can be applied to rapidly searching scenes of similar applications, a small number of application icons can be displayed in a desktop interface under the condition that a large number of applications are installed in electronic equipment, each application icon can be used as an entrance for rapidly displaying icons of related applications, and the electronic equipment can be triggered to display icons of a plurality of applications similar to the first application to a user by inputting the icon of the first application displayed in the desktop interface, so that the user can conveniently and rapidly search, and the application icons can be prevented from being displayed on the desktop interface disorderly and indiscriminately.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, if the first interface includes an icon of an application that is the same as the first application and is installed on the electronic device, the user may trigger to run the application by directly clicking the icon, so that the user may quickly find the icon of the application and directly click to use the icon.

Illustratively, after the step 202, the application recommendation method provided by the embodiment of the present application further includes the following steps 203 and 204.

Step 203, the electronic device receives a second input to the first target icon in the icons of the M second applications.

And the first target application corresponding to the first target icon is an installed application of the electronic equipment.

In this embodiment of the application, the second input may be a click input (for example, a click input or a double-click input) of the first target icon by a user (for example, through a finger or an electronic pen), or may also be any other input meeting an actual use requirement, which may specifically be determined according to the actual use requirement, and this embodiment of the application is not limited.

And step 204, the electronic equipment responds to the second input, runs the first target application and displays a running interface of the first target application.

In this embodiment of the application, under the condition that M icons of the second application are displayed in the first interface, assuming that a first target icon in the M icons of the second application is an application icon that a user needs to search, the user may perform a second input on the first target icon, and accordingly, the electronic device may respond to the second input, run the first target application corresponding to the first target icon, and display a running interface of the first target application.

Referring to (b) in fig. 3, shopping APP2 corresponding to "shopping APP 2" icon 37, shopping APP3 corresponding to "shopping APP 3" icon 38, and shopping APP4 corresponding to "shopping APP 4" icon 39 are all applications installed on the electronic device, if "shopping APP 2" icon 37 is an application icon that the user needs to find, the user may click on the "shopping APP 2" icon 37, and accordingly, the electronic device may respond to the user input, run APP shopping 2 corresponding to "shopping APP 2" icon 37, and display a running interface of shopping APP 2.

Therefore, the use requirement of a user for searching the application icons can be met only by displaying a small number of application icons in the desktop interface, the electronic equipment can recommend related applications of the same application type to the user based on the application only by clicking the icon of one application in the desktop interface, further, the user can quickly search in a plurality of applications of the same application type, and the application can be triggered to run by clicking the icon of the application.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, if the first interface includes an icon of an application that is the same as the first application and is not installed on the electronic device, the user may trigger installation of the application by directly clicking the icon, so that the user may quickly find the application icon and directly click to install the application icon.

Illustratively, after the step 202, the application recommendation method provided by the embodiment of the present application further includes the following steps 205 and 206.

Step 205, the electronic device receives a third input to a second target icon in the M second application icons.

And the second target application corresponding to the second target icon is an application which is not installed in the electronic equipment.

In this embodiment of the application, the third input may be a click input (for example, a single click input or a double click input) of the second target icon by a user (for example, through a finger or an electronic pen), may also be a long-time press input, or may be any other input meeting an actual use requirement, which may specifically be determined according to the actual use requirement, and this embodiment of the application is not limited.

And step 206, the electronic device responds to the third input, and a second target application is installed in the electronic device.

In this embodiment of the application, under the condition that M icons of the second application are displayed in the first interface, if a second target icon in the M icons of the second application is an application icon that a user needs to search, the user may perform a third input on the second target icon, and accordingly, the electronic device may respond to the third input, obtain an installation package of the second target application corresponding to the second target icon from the network, and install the second target application into the electronic device by using the installation package.

Referring to (b) of fig. 3 again, shopping APP5 corresponding to the "shopping APP 5" icon 40 and shopping APP6 corresponding to the "shopping APP 6" icon 41 are both applications that are not installed in the electronic device, and if the "shopping APP 5" icon 40 is an application icon that the user needs to find, the user may click on the "shopping APP 5" icon 40, and accordingly, the electronic device may directly install the shopping APP5 in the electronic device in response to the user input, or the electronic device may jump to an interface of an application market, so that the user may select whether to install the shopping APP5 according to the need.

According to the embodiment of the application, the intelligent recommendation of the local application is provided for the user through the data such as the application characteristics and the behavior characteristics of the user application, the whole-network application recommendation meeting the essential requirements of the user is further carried out by means of the internet big data, the user can conveniently search the homogeneous application, the concise management of the display interface of the electronic equipment is facilitated, convenience, intelligence and rich content can be integrated, and the user requirements are met.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, not only the icons of the M second applications but also the icon of the first application and the icons of other common applications are displayed in the first interface, so that a user may select the icons of other common applications to trigger the electronic device to display the icons of some applications associated with the application corresponding to the selected icon in the first interface. Therefore, several representative application icons of different types are displayed on the first interface, and a user can select an icon of a certain application according to actual use requirements, so that the electronic equipment can be triggered to display the icons of the similar applications.

Specifically, assuming that an icon of the first application and an icon of a third application are displayed in the first interface, where the third application is an application that is installed on the electronic device and belongs to a different application type from the first application, in this case, after the step 202, the application recommendation method provided in the embodiment of the present application further includes the following step 207 and step 208.

Step 207, the electronic device receives a fourth input of an icon of the third application.

The fourth input may be a click input (e.g., a single click input or a double click input) of the icon of the third application by the user (e.g., through a finger or an electronic pen), or may be any other input meeting the actual use requirement, which may be determined specifically according to the actual use requirement, and the embodiment of the present invention is not limited.

And step 208, in response to the fourth input, the electronic device updates the icons of the M second applications displayed in the first interface to the icons of S fourth applications, where the fourth applications are applications belonging to the same application type as the third applications.

Wherein the S fourth applications include at least one of: the electronic equipment comprises installed applications of the electronic equipment and uninstalled applications of the electronic equipment, and S is a positive integer.

It should be noted that the icons of the S fourth applications correspond to the S fourth applications one to one.

In this way, if the user inputs an icon of a third application displayed in the desktop interface, the electronic device may determine a downloaded application and/or an un-downloaded application that is the same kind as the third application based on the third application, and then recommend the downloaded application and/or the un-downloaded application that is the same kind as the third application to the user.

For the description of the S fourth application icons and the S fourth applications, reference may be made to the above detailed description of the M second application icons and the M second applications, which is not described herein again.

The application recommendation method provided by the embodiment of the present application is exemplarily described below by taking the third application as a game application and taking an icon of the third application as an icon of "game APP 1".

As shown in fig. 4 (a), the electronic device displays a first interface in which icons of M second applications are displayed: the icon includes a "shopping APP 2", a "shopping APP 3", a "shopping APP 4", a "shopping APP 5" and a "shopping APP 6". And, this first interface has "shopping APP 2" icon 42 and other a plurality of representative application icons that the user can through the sliding input (for example, slide left or slide right), trigger the electronic equipment to switch to show other representative application icons.

After the user's finger is slid on the first interface in the direction shown in fig. 4 (a), as shown in fig. 4 (b), a "game APP 1" icon 43 is displayed in the first interface. If the user needs to find or know applications that are the same kind as the "Game APP 1" icon 43, the user can click on the "Game APP 1" icon 43, and the electronic device correspondingly displays icons of S fourth applications in the first interface: a "game APP 2" icon 44, a "game APP 3" icon 45, and a "game APP 3" icon 46.

The game APP2 corresponding to the "game APP 2" icon 44 and the game APP3 corresponding to the "game APP 3" icon 45 are both applications installed on the electronic device, so that a user can quickly find applications installed on the electronic device and similar to the game APP 1. The game APP3 corresponding to the "game APP 3" icon 46 is an application of the same type as the game APP1, which is not installed on the electronic device, and is convenient for a user to quickly know which applications of the same type are recommended to be installed and used.

In the embodiment of the application, under the condition that several representative application icons of different types are displayed on the first interface, if a user selects an icon of a third application from the representative application icons, the electronic device may be triggered to switch and display the M second application icons displayed in the first interface into S icons of a fourth application. Therefore, the user can correspondingly display the icons of the similar applications to the user by selecting one of the representative application icons according to the actual use requirement; and the user selects another application icon in the representative application icons again, and the electronic equipment switches and displays the corresponding icons of the same type of application.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, if the M second applications include R second applications installed on the electronic device and T second applications not installed on the electronic device (R and S are positive integers), the R second applications may be sequentially arranged and displayed according to the recommendation degree; similarly, the T second applications may be sequentially displayed according to the recommendation degree, for example, the higher the recommendation degree of the application is, the higher the icon ranking of the application is.

For example, the step of displaying the icons of the M second applications in the first interface in the step 202 may be specifically implemented by the step 202A and the step 202B described below.

Step 202A, the electronic device displays R icons of the second application in a first area of the first interface according to a first arrangement sequence.

The icons of the R second applications correspond to the R second applications one by one.

Step 202B, the electronic device displays, in a second area in the first interface, the icons of the T second applications according to a second arrangement order.

The icons of the T second applications are in one-to-one correspondence with the T second applications.

Specific implementation modes of the steps are exemplarily described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

First, as shown in fig. 3 (b), an icon of a local APP is displayed in a first region in a first interface: a "shopping APP 2" icon 37, a "shopping APP 3" icon 38, and a "shopping APP 4" icon 39.

The local APP is the APP which is downloaded locally and associated with the user pressing the APP for the long time, if the user presses the icon of the shopping APP1 for the long time, the icon of the downloaded or installed APP of the same type is displayed on the local APP, and the user can conveniently and quickly open the APP.

In the embodiment of the application, the display sequence of the local APP can be determined through APP level homogeneous clustering, user operation frequency, correlation with the current long press APP, individual characteristic data of the user and the like, so that the same type of applications installed on the electronic equipment can be intelligently sequenced and recommended.

Next, as shown in fig. 3 (b), an icon of a recommended APP is displayed in the second area in the first interface: a "shopping APP 5" icon 40 and a "shopping APP 6" icon 41.

The recommended APP is the related APP recommended to the user based on the user pressing the APP for a long time without downloading locally.

In the embodiment of the application, the recommended result of recommending the APP can be intelligently sequenced and recommended through the correlation with the current long-press APP, the personal characteristic data of the user and the like.

Further, as shown in fig. 3 (b), a plurality of representative APP icon lists are also displayed in the first interface.

Wherein, the APP icon list means: and displaying the part of the APP list of the user desktop on the first interface. The list preferentially shows APPs within the closest interface range when the user presses the APP for a long time. The user can slide APP icon list from side to side, switches more APP icons, and facilitates quick switching of the user according to requirements.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, after the step 202, the application recommendation method provided in this embodiment of the application further includes the following step 209 and step 210.

Step 209, the electronic device receives a fifth input to the search control in the first interface.

In this embodiment of the application, the fifth input may be a click input (e.g., a single-click input or a double-click input) of the search control by the user (e.g., through a finger or an electronic pen), a long-press input of the search control, or any other input meeting an actual use requirement, which may be determined specifically according to the actual use requirement, and the embodiment of the application is not limited.

Step 210, the electronic device responds to a fifth input, and searches for a fifth application which belongs to the same application type as the first application.

Wherein the fifth application is an application different from the R second applications and the T second applications.

In the embodiment of the present application, as shown in (b) in fig. 3, when the recommended APP displayed in the second area does not meet the user requirement, the user may click the "search" button 47 to further search for more APP results.

The 'search' button further expands the requirement range of the user, for example, the user directly jumps to the application market to display more comprehensive results, so that the user can know more similar applications more conveniently and quickly.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, when a large number of applications are installed in the electronic device, a user generally has a need to sort icons of installed similar applications together, that is, the user has a need to sort a large number of application icons in a desktop interface into the same folder. In view of this, the present application provides a scheme for sorting multiple application icons into the same folder.

Illustratively, after the step 202, the application recommendation method provided in the embodiment of the present application further includes the following steps 211 and 212.

Step 211, the electronic device receives a sixth input to the combination control in the first interface.

As shown in fig. 5 (a), the sixth input may be a click input (e.g., a double-click input or a single-click input) of the user (e.g., by using a finger or an electronic pen) to "move to the same folder" 48 (i.e., a combination control), or may be any other possible input, which may be determined according to actual use requirements, and the embodiment of the present application is not limited thereto.

Step 212, the electronic device displays a first folder in the desktop interface in response to the sixth input, where the first folder includes an icon of the first application and R icons of the second applications.

In the embodiment of the application, as shown in fig. 5 (a), in a case that the electronic device displays the first interface, if a user needs to sort icons of applications of the same type installed in the electronic device into the same folder, the user may directly click the combination control at this time.

Accordingly, the electronic device puts the icon of the application selected by the current user and the icons of the same kind of applications into the same folder (e.g., a first folder), and as shown in (b) of fig. 5, the electronic device displays a first folder 49 including the icon of the first application (i.e., "shopping APP 1" icon) and the icons of R second applications ("shopping APP 2" icon, "shopping APP 3" icon, and "shopping APP 4" icon) in the first folder 49.

Therefore, the user can arrange the icons of the applications of the same type into the same folder more conveniently, the requirement of classifying and arranging a large number of application icons in the desktop interface by the user is met, and the situation that the application icons in the desktop interface are displayed disorderly and indiscriminately can be avoided by reasonably classifying the application icons in the desktop interface into the corresponding folders.

Further optionally, in this embodiment of the application, in a case that a large number of applications are installed on the electronic device, a user generally has a requirement of installing a certain application first, and then sorting icons of the installed application and icons of other installed similar applications together, that is, the user has a requirement of sorting a large number of application icons in a desktop interface into the same folder. In view of this, the present application provides a scheme for sorting multiple application icons into the same folder.

Illustratively, after the step 202, the application recommendation method provided by the embodiment of the present application further includes the following steps 213 to 215.

Step 213, the electronic device receives a seventh input of dragging a third target icon of the icons of the T second applications into the first area.

Illustratively, as shown in FIG. 6 (a), the seventh input may be an input by the user (e.g., via a finger or an electronic pen) dragging the "shopping APP 6" icon 41 in the second area into the first area (e.g., onto combination control 48).

And step 214, the electronic device responds to the seventh input, and an application corresponding to the third target icon is installed in the electronic device.

Step 215, the electronic device displays a second folder in the desktop interface, where the second folder includes icons of the first application, R icons of the second application, and icons of the third target.

In the embodiment of the present application, as shown in (a) in fig. 6, in the case that the electronic device displays the first interface, if the user needs to install "shopping APP 6" into the electronic device and sort the icons of the applications of the same kind installed in the electronic device into the same folder, the user may drag the "shopping APP 6" icon 41 in the second area directly onto the combination control 48 in the first area at this time.

Accordingly, the electronic device installs the shopping APP6 and then places icons for the same type of application in the same folder (e.g., the second folder). As shown in fig. 6 (b), the electronic device displays a second folder 50, and the second folder 50 includes "shopping APP 1" (i.e., an icon of the first application), "shopping APP 2" (i.e., an icon of the R second applications), "shopping APP 3" (i.e., an icon of the "shopping APP 4") and "shopping APP 6" (i.e., a third target icon).

Therefore, after the application is installed, the application icons and the icons of the similar applications are directly arranged in the same folder, the requirement that a user classifies and arranges a large number of application icons in the desktop interface is met, and the situation that the application icons in the desktop interface are displayed disorderly can be avoided.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, after the step 202, the application recommendation method provided in this embodiment of the application further includes the following step 216 and step 217.

In step 216, the electronic device receives an eighth input from the user.

For example, the eighth input may be an input (e.g., a click input) by a user (e.g., by a finger or an electronic pen) to an exit control in the first interface, or a sliding input by the user on the first interface, or may be any other possible input, which may be determined according to actual use requirements, and the embodiment of the present application is not limited thereto.

Step 217, the electronic device cancels the display of the first interface on the desktop interface in response to the eighth input.

In this embodiment of the application, when the user terminates the search of the homogeneous application, the user may exit the homogeneous application interface by sliding up (e.g., sliding from the lower side to the upper side of the electronic device). For example, the operation of exiting the first interface may be extended to sliding from one side of the electronic device to the edge of the electronic device, such as from a middle position to a left/right/lower side.

The improvement points of the embodiment of the application comprise the following aspects:

in the embodiment of the application, the user is helped to quickly search the homogenized APP based on the APP through convenient interface display and operation and by means of the realization technology recommended by the APP intelligence.

Secondly, in the embodiment of the application, by long-time pressing of the APP icon (or double-click of the icon and other operations), the homogenization APP is directly displayed, and the user local homogenization APP containing intelligent recommendation and/or the downloadable homogenization APP based on search recommendation are included.

Third, in the embodiment of the application, the user can switch the APP icon through sliding operation, and quickly check the homogenized APP of the switched APP.

In the embodiment of the application, the user can quickly quit the homogenization APP interface by sliding up the homogenization APP interface (or sliding left/right and other operations).

In the embodiment of the application, through intelligent APP recommendation and a convenient interface operation method, concise interface management is provided for a user, and the user only needs to keep a small amount of APPs on a desktop.

As shown in fig. 7, an embodiment of the present application provides an electronic device, where the electronic device 700 may include a receiving module 701 and a display module 702;

a receiving module 701, configured to receive a first input of an icon of a first application in a desktop interface, where the icon of the first application is an icon corresponding to an installed first application of an electronic device;

a display module 702, configured to, in response to the first input received by the receiving module 701, display a first interface on a desktop interface, and display icons of M second applications in the first interface;

wherein the second application is an application belonging to the same application type as the first application, and the M second applications include at least one of: the electronic device comprises an installed application and an uninstalled application, and M is a positive integer.

In a possible implementation manner, the electronic device provided in the embodiment of the present application further includes a first processing module;

the receiving module is further configured to receive a second input to a first target icon in the M second application icons after the display module displays the M second application icons in the first interface, where the first target application corresponding to the first target icon is an application installed in the electronic device;

a first processing module for running a first target application in response to the second input received by the receiving module;

and the display module is also used for displaying the running interface of the first target application under the condition that the first processing module runs the first target application.

In a possible implementation manner, the electronic device provided in the embodiment of the present application further includes a second processing module;

the receiving module is further configured to receive a third input of a user to a second target icon in the M second application icons after the display module displays the M second application icons in the first interface, where the second target application corresponding to the second target icon is an application that is not installed in the electronic device;

a second processing module for installing the second target application in the electronic device in response to the third input received by the receiving module.

In a possible implementation manner, an icon of a first application and an icon of a third application are also displayed in the first interface, where the third application is an application that is installed on the electronic device and belongs to a different application type from the first application;

the receiving module is further used for receiving a fourth input of the icon of the third application from the user after the display module displays the first interface on the desktop interface;

the display module is further used for responding to the fourth input received by the receiving module, and updating the icons of the M second applications displayed in the first interface into the icons of the S fourth applications;

wherein the fourth application is an application belonging to the same application type as the third application, the S fourth applications including at least one of: the electronic equipment comprises installed applications of the electronic equipment and uninstalled applications of the electronic equipment, and S is a positive integer.

In a possible implementation manner, the M second applications include R second applications installed and T second applications not installed in the electronic device, where R and S are positive integers;

the display module is specifically configured to display, in a first area in the first interface, the R icons of the second applications according to a first arrangement order, and display, in a second area in the first interface, the T icons of the second applications according to a second arrangement order.

In a possible implementation manner, the electronic device provided in the embodiment of the present application further includes a third processing module;

the receiving module is further used for receiving a fifth input of the search control in the first interface after the display module displays the first interface on the desktop interface;

a third processing module, configured to search for a fifth application that belongs to the same application type as the first application in response to a fifth input received by the receiving module;

In a possible implementation manner, the receiving module is further configured to receive, after the displaying module displays the first interface on the desktop interface, a sixth input of the user to the combination control in the first interface;

the display module is further used for responding to the sixth input received by the receiving module, and displaying a first folder in the desktop interface, wherein the first file comprises icons of the first application and the R second applications.

In a possible implementation manner, the electronic device provided in the embodiment of the present application further includes a fourth processing module;

the receiving module is further used for receiving a seventh input that the user drags a third target icon in the icons of the T second applications to the first area after the display module displays the icons of the M second applications in the first interface;

the fourth processing module is used for responding to the seventh input received by the receiving module and installing the application corresponding to the third target icon in the electronic equipment;

the display module is further configured to, after the fourth processing module installs the application corresponding to the third target icon in the electronic device, display a second folder in the desktop interface, where the second folder includes the icon of the first application, the R icons of the second applications, and the third target icon.

In a possible implementation manner, the receiving module is further configured to receive an eighth input of the user after the displaying module displays the first interface on the desktop interface;

and the display module is further used for responding to the eighth input received by the receiving module and canceling the display of the first interface on the desktop interface.

The electronic device provided in the embodiment of the present application can implement each process implemented by the electronic device in the above method embodiments, and is not described here again to avoid repetition.

The electronic device provided by the embodiment of the application can receive first input of a user on an icon of a first application in a desktop interface, wherein the icon of the first application is an icon corresponding to the installed first application of the electronic device; responding to the first input, displaying a first interface on the desktop interface, and displaying icons of M second applications in the first interface; wherein the second application is an application belonging to the same application type as the first application, and the M second applications include at least one of: the electronic device comprises an installed application and an uninstalled application, and M is a positive integer. The application recommendation method provided by the embodiment of the application recommendation method can be applied to rapidly searching scenes of similar applications, a small number of application icons can be displayed in a desktop interface under the condition that a large number of applications are installed in electronic equipment, each application icon can be used as an entrance for rapidly displaying icons of related applications, and the electronic equipment can be triggered to display icons of a plurality of applications similar to the first application to a user by inputting the icon of the first application displayed in the desktop interface, so that the user can conveniently and rapidly search, and the application icons can be prevented from being displayed on the desktop interface disorderly and indiscriminately.

Fig. 8 is a schematic hardware structure diagram of an electronic device implementing various embodiments of the present application. As shown in fig. 8, the electronic device 800 includes, but is not limited to: a radio frequency unit 801, a network module 802, an audio output unit 803, an input unit 804, a sensor 805, a display unit 806, a user input unit 807, an interface unit 808, a memory 809, a processor 810, and a power supply 811. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the electronic device configuration shown in fig. 8 does not constitute a limitation of the electronic device, and that the electronic device may include more or fewer components than shown, or some components may be combined, or a different arrangement of components. In the embodiment of the present application, the electronic device includes, but is not limited to, a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palm computer, a vehicle-mounted terminal, a wearable device, a pedometer, and the like.

The user input unit 807 is configured to receive a first input of an icon of a first application in the desktop interface by a user, where the icon of the first application is an icon corresponding to an installed first application of the electronic device; a display unit 806, configured to display the first interface on the desktop interface and display the icons of the M second applications in the first interface, according to the first input received by the user input unit 807; wherein the second application is an application belonging to the same application type as the first application, and the M second applications include at least one of: the electronic device comprises an installed application and an uninstalled application, and M is a positive integer.

The embodiment of the application provides electronic equipment which can be applied to rapidly searching scenes of similar applications, a small number of application icons can be displayed in a desktop interface under the condition that a large number of applications are installed in the electronic equipment, each application icon can be used as an entrance for rapidly displaying icons of related applications, the icons of a plurality of applications similar to the first application can be displayed to a user by triggering the electronic equipment through inputting the icon of the first application displayed in the desktop interface, so that the user can conveniently and rapidly search, and the situation that the application icons are randomly displayed on the desktop interface can be avoided.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the radio frequency unit 801 may be used for receiving and sending signals during a message sending and receiving process or a call process, and specifically, receives downlink data from a base station and then processes the received downlink data to the processor 810; in addition, the uplink data is transmitted to the base station. In general, radio frequency unit 801 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, at least one amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, and the like. Further, the radio frequency unit 801 can also communicate with a network and other devices through a wireless communication system.

The electronic device 800 provides wireless broadband internet access to the user via the network module 802, such as to assist the user in sending and receiving e-mail, browsing web pages, and accessing streaming media.

The audio output unit 803 may convert audio data received by the radio frequency unit 801 or the network module 802 or stored in the memory 809 into an audio signal and output as sound. Also, the audio output unit 803 may also provide audio output related to a specific function performed by the electronic apparatus 800 (e.g., a call signal reception sound, a message reception sound, etc.). The audio output unit 803 includes a speaker, a buzzer, a receiver, and the like.

The input unit 804 is used for receiving an audio or video signal. The input unit 804 may include an image capture device (e.g., a camera) 8040, a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 8041, and a microphone 8042. An image capture device 8040 (e.g., a camera) captures image data for still pictures or video. The graphic processor 8041 processes image data of still pictures or video obtained by the image capturing apparatus in the video capturing mode or the image capturing mode. The processed image frames may be displayed on the display unit 806. The image frames processed by the graphics processor 8041 may be stored in the memory 809 (or other storage medium) or transmitted via the radio frequency unit 801 or the network module 802. The microphone 8042 can receive sound, and can process such sound into audio data. The processed audio data may be converted into a format output transmittable to a mobile communication base station via the radio frequency unit 801 in case of a phone call mode.

The electronic device 800 also includes at least one sensor 805, such as light sensors, motion sensors, and other sensors. Specifically, the light sensor includes an ambient light sensor that can adjust the brightness of the display panel 8061 according to the brightness of ambient light and a proximity sensor that can turn off the display panel 8061 and/or the backlight when the electronic device 800 is moved to the ear. As one type of motion sensor, an accelerometer sensor can detect the magnitude of acceleration in each direction (generally three axes), detect the magnitude and direction of gravity when stationary, and can be used to identify the posture of an electronic device (such as horizontal and vertical screen switching, related games, magnetometer posture calibration), and vibration identification related functions (such as pedometer, tapping); the sensors 805 may also include fingerprint sensors, pressure sensors, iris sensors, molecular sensors, gyroscopes, barometers, hygrometers, thermometers, infrared sensors, etc., which are not described in detail herein.

The display unit 806 may include a display panel 8061, and the display panel 8061 may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display (L CD), an organic light-emitting diode (O L ED), or the like.

The user input unit 807 may be used to receive input numeric or character information and generate key signal inputs related to user settings and function control of the electronic apparatus. Specifically, the user input unit 807 includes a touch panel 8071 and other input devices 8072. The touch panel 8071, also referred to as a touch screen, may collect touch operations by a user on or near the touch panel 8071 (e.g., operations by a user on or near the touch panel 8071 using a finger, a stylus, or any other suitable object or accessory). The touch panel 8071 may include two portions of a touch detection device and a touch controller. The touch detection device detects the touch direction of a user, detects a signal brought by touch operation and transmits the signal to the touch controller; the touch controller receives touch information from the touch sensing device, converts the touch information into touch point coordinates, sends the touch point coordinates to the processor 810, receives a command from the processor 810, and executes the command. In addition, the touch panel 8071 can be implemented by various types such as a resistive type, a capacitive type, an infrared ray, and a surface acoustic wave. In addition to the touch panel 8071, the user input unit 807 can include other input devices 8072. In particular, other input devices 8072 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 8071 can be overlaid on the display panel 8061, and when the touch panel 8071 detects a touch operation on or near the touch panel 8071, the touch operation is transmitted to the processor 810 to determine the type of the touch event, and then the processor 810 provides a corresponding visual output on the display panel 8061 according to the type of the touch event. Although in fig. 8, the touch panel 8071 and the display panel 8061 are two independent components to implement the input and output functions of the electronic device, in some embodiments, the touch panel 8071 and the display panel 8061 may be integrated to implement the input and output functions of the electronic device, and the implementation is not limited herein.

The interface unit 808 is an interface for connecting an external device to the electronic apparatus 800. For example, the external device may include a wired or wireless headset port, an external power supply (or battery charger) port, a wired or wireless data port, a memory card port, a port for connecting a device having an identification module, an audio input/output (I/O) port, a video I/O port, an earphone port, and the like. The interface unit 808 may be used to receive input (e.g., data information, power, etc.) from external devices and transmit the received input to one or more elements within the electronic device 800 or may be used to transmit data between the electronic device 800 and external devices.

The memory 809 may be used to store software programs as well as various data. The memory 809 may mainly include a storage program area and a storage data area, wherein the storage program area may store an operating system, an application program required by at least one function (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.), and the like; the storage data area may store data (such as audio data, a phonebook, etc.) created according to the use of the cellular phone, and the like. Further, the memory 809 can include high speed random access memory, and can 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 810 is a control center of the electronic device, connects various parts of the whole electronic device by using various interfaces and lines, performs various functions of the electronic device and processes data by running or executing software programs and/or modules stored in the memory 809 and calling data stored in the memory 809, thereby monitoring the whole electronic device. Processor 810 may include one or more processing units; optionally, the processor 810 may integrate an application processor and a modem processor, wherein the application processor mainly handles operating systems, user interfaces, application programs, and the like, and the modem processor mainly handles wireless communications. It will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into processor 810.

The electronic device 800 may also include a power supply 811 (e.g., a battery) for powering the various components, and optionally, the power supply 811 may be logically coupled to the processor 810 via a power management system to manage charging, discharging, and power consumption management via the power management system.

In addition, the electronic device 800 includes some functional modules that are not shown, and are not described in detail herein.

Optionally, an electronic device is further provided in an embodiment of the present application, and includes a processor 810 as shown in fig. 8, a memory 809, and a computer program that is stored in the memory 809 and can be run on the processor 810, and when the computer program is executed by the processor 810, the processes of the above application recommendation method embodiment are implemented, and the same technical effect can be achieved, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the computer program implements the processes of the foregoing embodiment of the application recommendation method, and can achieve the same technical effects, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not repeated here. The computer-readable storage medium may include a read-only memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic or optical disk, 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 an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

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

While the present embodiments have been described with reference to the accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the precise embodiments described above, which are meant to be illustrative and not restrictive, and that various changes may be made therein by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

Claims

1. An application recommendation method applied to an electronic device is characterized by comprising the following steps:

receiving a first input of an icon of a first application in a desktop interface, wherein the icon of the first application is an icon corresponding to the installed first application of the electronic equipment;

responding to the first input, displaying a first interface on the desktop interface, and displaying icons of M second applications in the first interface;

wherein the second application is an application belonging to the same application type as the first application, and the M second applications include at least one of: the electronic equipment comprises an installed application and an uninstalled application, and M is a positive integer.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein after displaying icons of the M second applications in the first interface, the method further comprises:

receiving a second input of a first target icon in the icons of the M second applications, wherein the first target application corresponding to the first target icon is an installed application of the electronic equipment;

and responding to the second input, running the first target application, and displaying a running interface of the first target application.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein after displaying icons of the M second applications in the first interface, the method further comprises:

receiving a third input of a second target icon in the icons of the M second applications, wherein the second target application corresponding to the second target icon is an application which is not installed in the electronic equipment;

installing the second target application in the electronic device in response to the third input.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein an icon of a third application and an icon of the first application are also displayed in the first interface, and the third application is an application which is installed on the electronic device and is of a different application type from the first application;

after the displaying the first interface on the desktop interface, the method further comprises:

receiving a fourth input to an icon of the third application;

updating the icons of the M second applications displayed in the first interface to icons of S fourth applications in response to the fourth input;

wherein the fourth application is an application belonging to the same application type as the third application, and the S fourth applications include at least one of: the electronic equipment comprises an installed application and an uninstalled application, and S is a positive integer.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the M second applications comprise R second applications installed and T second applications not installed on the electronic device, wherein icons of the R second applications are displayed in a first arrangement order in a first area in the first interface, icons of the T second applications are displayed in a second arrangement order in a second area in the first interface, and R and S are positive integers;

receiving a fifth input to a search control in the first interface;

in response to the fifth input, searching for a fifth application that is of the same application type as the first application;

6. The method of claim 5, wherein after the first interface is displayed on the desktop interface, the method further comprises:

receiving a sixth input to a combination control in the first interface;

in response to the sixth input, displaying a first folder in the desktop interface, wherein the first folder comprises icons of the first application and icons of the R second applications.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein after displaying the icons of the M second applications in the first interface, the method further comprises:

receiving a seventh input dragging a third target icon of the T second application icons into the first area;

responding to the seventh input, installing an application corresponding to the third target icon in the electronic equipment, and displaying a second folder in the desktop interface, wherein the second folder comprises the icon of the first application, the icons of the R second applications and the third target icon.

8. An electronic device, comprising a receiving module and a display module;

the receiving module is used for receiving a first input of an icon of a first application in a desktop interface, wherein the icon of the first application is an icon corresponding to the installed first application of the electronic equipment;

the display module is used for responding to the first input received by the receiving module, displaying a first interface on the desktop interface, and displaying icons of M second applications in the first interface;

9. The electronic device of claim 8, further comprising a first processing module;

the receiving module is further configured to receive a second input of a first target icon in the icons of the M second applications after the display module displays the icons of the M second applications in the first interface, where a first target application corresponding to the first target icon is an installed application of the electronic device;

the first processing module is used for responding to the second input received by the receiving module and running the first target application;

the display module is further configured to display an operation interface of the first target application when the first processing module operates the first target application.

10. The electronic device of claim 8, further comprising a second processing module;

the receiving module is further configured to receive a third input to a second target icon in the M second application icons after the display module displays the M second application icons in the first interface, where the second target application corresponding to the second target icon is an application that is not installed in the electronic device;

the second processing module is configured to install the second target application in the electronic device in response to the third input received by the receiving module.

11. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein an icon of a third application and an icon of the first application are also displayed in the first interface, and an application corresponding to the icon of the third application is an application that is installed in the electronic device and belongs to a different application type from the first application;

the receiving module is further configured to receive a fourth input of an icon of the third application after the display module displays the first interface on the desktop interface;

the display module is further configured to update the icons of the M second applications displayed in the first interface to icons of S fourth applications in response to the fourth input received by the receiving module;

12. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the M second applications include R second applications installed and T second applications not installed on the electronic device, wherein icons of the R second applications are displayed in a first arrangement order in a first area in the first interface, wherein icons of the T second applications are displayed in a second arrangement order in a second area in the first interface, and wherein R and S are positive integers; the electronic equipment further comprises a third processing module;

the receiving module is further configured to receive a fifth input to the search control in the first interface after the display module displays the first interface on the desktop interface;

the third processing module is configured to search for a fifth application that belongs to the same application type as the first application in response to the fifth input received by the receiving module;

13. The electronic device of claim 12,

the receiving module is further configured to receive a sixth input to the combination control in the first interface after the display module displays the first interface on the desktop interface;

the display module is further configured to display a first folder in the desktop interface in response to the sixth input received by the receiving module, where the first file includes an icon of the first application and icons of the R second applications.

14. The electronic device of claim 12, further comprising a fourth processing module;

the receiving module is further configured to receive a seventh input that drags a third target icon of the icons of the T second applications into the first area after the displaying module displays the icons of the M second applications in the first interface;

the fourth processing module is configured to install, in response to the seventh input received by the receiving module, an application corresponding to the third target icon in the electronic device;

the display module is further configured to, after the fourth processing module installs the application corresponding to the third target icon in the electronic device, display a second folder in the desktop interface, where the second file includes the icon of the first application, the icons of the R second applications, and the third target icon.