CN112099710A

CN112099710A - Application starting method, device, equipment and computer readable storage medium

Info

Publication number: CN112099710A
Application number: CN202010969929.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李媚; 李昕; 郭瑄; 林洁娴; 杨浩; 祝云龙; 姜昭延
Original assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Co Ltd
Current assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-09-15
Filing date: 2020-09-15
Publication date: 2020-12-18

Abstract

The invention provides an application starting method, device, equipment and a computer readable storage medium; the method comprises the following steps: when receiving sliding operation acting on the current interface, tracking the sliding track of the sliding operation in real time; when the sliding distance of the sliding track along the first preset direction is smaller than the first preset distance, displaying the shortcut entrance interface in a preset display area of the current interface; the shortcut entry interface is used for displaying a preset number of candidate applications; when the sliding track continues to slide along a second preset direction, positioning a target application from a preset number of candidate applications according to the current sliding track; and when the sliding operation is finished, jumping to a display interface corresponding to the target application. By the method and the device, the calling efficiency of the application can be improved.

Description

Application starting method, device, equipment and computer readable storage medium

Technical Field

The present invention relates to terminal technologies, and in particular, to a method, an apparatus, a device, and a computer-readable storage medium for starting an application.

Background

At present, most applications installed on a terminal expand application content and service capability by accessing and calling small programs in an application image-text browsing scene. In the operation mode of calling the applet, the applet needs to be called into the applet center by performing pull-down operation on a screen, then the applet center selects the target applet to be called, and finally the applet homepage is called by clicking the icon of the target applet. It can be seen that the current operation mode needs to go through multiple operations to open the target applet to be called, so the calling efficiency of the applet or application is low.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides an application starting method, an application starting device and a computer readable storage medium, which can improve the calling efficiency of an application.

The technical scheme of the embodiment of the invention is realized as follows:

the embodiment of the invention provides an application starting method, which comprises the following steps:

when receiving a sliding operation acting on a current interface, tracking a sliding track of the sliding operation in real time;

when the sliding distance of the sliding track along a first preset direction is smaller than a first preset distance, displaying a shortcut entrance interface in a preset display area of the current interface; the shortcut entry interface is used for displaying a preset number of candidate application icons;

when the sliding track continues to slide along a second preset direction, positioning a target application from the preset number of candidate applications according to the current sliding track;

and when the sliding operation is finished, jumping to a display interface corresponding to the target application.

An embodiment of the present invention provides an application starting apparatus, including: .

The tracking module is used for tracking the sliding track of the sliding operation in real time when the sliding operation acting on the current interface is received;

the display module is used for displaying a shortcut entrance interface in a preset display area of the current interface when the sliding distance of the sliding track along a first preset direction is smaller than a first preset distance; the shortcut entry interface is used for displaying a preset number of candidate applications;

the positioning module is used for positioning a target application from the preset number of candidate applications according to the current sliding track when the sliding track continuously slides along a second preset direction;

and the starting module is used for jumping to a display interface corresponding to the target application when the sliding operation is finished.

An embodiment of the present invention provides an electronic device, including:

a memory for storing executable instructions;

and the processor is used for realizing the application starting method provided by the embodiment of the invention when the executable instructions stored in the memory are executed.

The embodiment of the invention provides a computer-readable storage medium, which stores executable instructions and is used for causing a processor to execute the executable instructions so as to realize the application starting method provided by the embodiment of the invention.

The embodiment of the invention has the following beneficial effects:

when the sliding operation acting on the current interface is received, a shortcut entrance interface can be called out according to the sliding distance of the sliding track in the first preset direction, the target application can be positioned from the shortcut entrance interface through the current sliding track in the second preset direction, and finally the target application is started when the sliding operation is finished; therefore, calling out the application entry interface, positioning the target application and starting the target application can be realized through one-time sliding operation, screen operation required for calling and starting the target application in the current interface is reduced, and calling efficiency of the application is improved.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating a display effect of a pull-down second floor page according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the display effect of an applet center provided in an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating the display effect of the main page of the applet provided in the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating the operation steps of currently launching an applet from a current application according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is an alternative structural diagram of an application launching system architecture provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is an alternative structural diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is an alternative flowchart of an application starting method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram illustrating operation steps of calling up a shortcut entry interface according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of an enlarged icon of a preset mark effect according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram illustrating operation steps of selecting a target application in a shortcut entry interface according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 11 is an alternative flowchart of an application starting method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram illustrating an effect of a display process of a shortcut entry interface according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 13 is a diagram illustrating an effect of a hidden area of a candidate application according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 14 is a schematic diagram illustrating operation steps of displaying a hidden application in a shortcut entry interface according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 15 is an alternative flowchart of an application starting method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating a method for dividing a preset number of screen regions according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 17 is a schematic view of an interaction flow between a front end and a background of a terminal when a target applet is selected and started to implement a drop shortcut entry interface according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 18 is a schematic diagram illustrating operation steps of calling up a shortcut entry interface, selecting an applet in the shortcut entry interface, and starting the applet according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 19 is a schematic diagram illustrating a display effect of a preset selected application in a shortcut entry interface according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 20 is a schematic view of an interaction flow between a front end and a background of a terminal when implementing a method for dropping and collapsing a shortcut entry interface according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 21 is a schematic view of the steps for retracting a shortcut entry interface provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 22 is a schematic diagram illustrating the operation steps of calling out an application portal interface according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 23-1 is a schematic structural diagram of an operation layer of a terminal screen according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 23-2 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal screen function entry layer according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 23-3 is a schematic structural diagram of a base page layer of a terminal screen according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 24 is a diagram illustrating a terminal screen hierarchy provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 25 is an alternative flowchart of an application starting method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention clearer, the present invention will be further described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, the described embodiments should not be construed as limiting the present invention, and all other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art without creative efforts shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

In the following description, reference is made to "some embodiments" which describe a subset of all possible embodiments, but it is understood that "some embodiments" may be the same subset or different subsets of all possible embodiments, and may be combined with each other without conflict.

In the following description, references to the terms "first \ second \ third" are only to distinguish similar objects and do not denote a particular order, but rather the terms "first \ second \ third" are used to interchange specific orders or sequences, where appropriate, to enable embodiments of the invention described herein to be practiced in other than the order shown or described herein.

Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing embodiments of the invention only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention.

Before further detailed description of the embodiments of the present invention, terms and expressions mentioned in the embodiments of the present invention are explained, and the terms and expressions mentioned in the embodiments of the present invention are applied to the following explanations.

1) The applet is a program which is developed based on a front-end-oriented Language (such as JavaScript) and realizes services in a hypertext Markup Language (HTML) page, can be immediately interpreted and executed in the client after being downloaded by the client, and saves steps installed in the client.

2) Events, a communication mode from the view layer to the logic layer of the applet, data generated when user operation occurs in the web page view component is transmitted to the logic layer in the form of events, and event processing functions bound with the events are executed in the logic layer, for example, various capability interfaces of the system are called.

3) A client, such as a local client (Native App), is software that a user needs to download and install on a user terminal (e.g., a smartphone) in order to use.

4) In response to the condition or state on which the performed operation depends, one or more of the performed operations may be in real-time or may have a set delay when the dependent condition or state is satisfied; there is no restriction on the order of execution of the operations performed unless otherwise specified.

5) Pulling down a second floor: and a page on the screen above the current interface is in an undisplayed area of the mobile phone screen before being pulled down.

6) The small program center: the set of multiple applet portals may be, for example, an applet mall, my applet, a recently used applet, etc. in a practical application scenario.

7) Applet home page: and the first page of the small program is displayed after the small program is entered.

At present, when a user of a device needs to invoke another application in a using process of a current application, a pull-down second floor page as shown in fig. 1 is displayed on a current interface of the current application in an overlaying manner on a screen of a mobile phone by performing a pull-down operation on the current interface. The display content of the second floor page is an applet center as shown in fig. 2, a plurality of corresponding applet entries are displayed in the applet center through a plurality of applet icons, and then the user can select an applet to be entered from the plurality of applet entries displayed in the applet center. Illustratively, after the user selects applet 1, the user can enter the homepage of applet 1 as shown in FIG. 3 by clicking on applet 1. Further, fig. 4 shows the operation of the applet 3 currently being started in a current application, such as WeChat. It can be seen that currently starting up an applet in current applications typically requires at least two operations: the homepage of the small program which is required to be accessed can be reached only by pulling down and clicking, and the application calling efficiency is low; when the user wants to enter the applet center, the user needs to pull up again to close the applet center and return to the previous use interface again, so that the efficiency of application starting and calling is further reduced.

Embodiments of the present invention provide an application starting method, apparatus, device, and computer-readable storage medium, which can improve application invoking efficiency, and an exemplary application of the application starting device provided in the embodiments of the present invention is described below, where the device provided in the embodiments of the present invention may be implemented as various types of user terminals such as a notebook computer, a tablet computer, a desktop computer, a set-top box, a mobile device (e.g., a mobile phone, a portable music player, a personal digital assistant, a dedicated messaging device, and a portable game device), and may also be implemented as a server. In the following, an exemplary application will be explained when the device is implemented as a terminal.

Referring to fig. 5, fig. 5 is an alternative architecture diagram of the application startup system 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention, in which the terminal 400 is connected to the server 200 through the network 300, and the network 300 may be a wide area network or a local area network, or a combination of both.

The terminal 400 is configured to track a sliding track of a sliding operation in real time when the sliding operation acting on the current interface is received; when the sliding distance of the sliding track along the first preset direction is smaller than the first preset distance, displaying a shortcut entrance interface in a preset display area of the current interface in the graphical interface 410-1; the shortcut entry interface is used for displaying a preset number of candidate application icons; when the sliding track continues to slide along a second preset direction, positioning a target application from a preset number of candidate applications according to the current sliding track; and when the sliding operation is finished, jumping to a display interface corresponding to the target application, and displaying the display interface of the target application through the graphical interface 410-1. The server 200 is configured to obtain at least one application information of at least one candidate application corresponding to the current interface from the database 500, and provide the application information to the terminal 400 through the network 300, for example, the server 200 may obtain at least one candidate application specified or recommended by the current application, so that the terminal application displays candidate application icons of a preset number of candidate applications in the at least one candidate application in the shortcut entry interface. The server 200 is further configured to obtain page data required by the running of the target application from the database 500 according to the request of the target application, and provide the page data to the terminal 400 through the network 300, so that when the terminal 400 jumps to the display interface of the target application, the display interface of the target application can be normally loaded according to the page data and the function of the target application can be normally run.

In some embodiments, when the at least one candidate application is an applet, the network 300 may be a content distribution network, the server 200 may be a backend server of the applet, and the terminal 400 may start and run the applet through a built-in client. When the terminal 400 runs the applet for the first time, the applet needs to be downloaded, a client on the terminal 400 sends an initialization request to the server 200 to download the applet, in order to improve the downloading speed, the request can be redirected to the Content Delivery network 300 (CDN), and a data packet (Package) of the applet, that is, a source code of the applet, is sent by the server 200 to the client on the terminal 400 through the Content Delivery network 300 from an appropriate node server in the Content Delivery network 300 (for example, a node server is selected based on a shortest link condition, a load balancing condition, and the like), so as to implement downloading of the applet; after the initialization of the applet is completed by the client on the terminal 400, the applet page is loaded by interpreting the applet code, the applet obtains the data required by the page display and the page update by sending a data request to the server 200, the applet performs the page rendering according to the obtained data, and the page display of the applet in the client is realized on the graphical interface 410-1 in the terminal 400.

In some embodiments, the server 200 may be an independent physical server, may also be a server cluster or a distributed system formed by a plurality of physical servers, and may also be a cloud server providing basic cloud computing services such as a cloud service, a cloud database, cloud computing, a cloud function, cloud storage, a network service, cloud communication, a middleware service, a domain name service, a security service, a CDN, and a big data and artificial intelligence platform. The terminal 400 may be, but is not limited to, a smart phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a desktop computer, a smart speaker, a smart watch, and the like. The terminal and the server may be directly or indirectly connected through wired or wireless communication, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to fig. 6, fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal 400 according to an embodiment of the present invention, where the terminal 400 shown in fig. 6 includes: at least one processor 410, memory 450, at least one network interface 420, and a user interface 430. The various components in the terminal 400 are coupled together by a bus system 440. It is understood that the bus system 440 is used to enable communications among the components. The bus system 440 includes a power bus, a control bus, and a status signal bus in addition to a data bus. For clarity of illustration, however, the various buses are labeled as bus system 440 in fig. 6.

The Processor 410 may be an integrated circuit chip having Signal processing capabilities, such as a general purpose Processor, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic device, discrete hardware components, or the like, wherein the general purpose Processor may be a microprocessor or any conventional Processor, or the like.

The user interface 430 includes one or more output devices 431, including one or more speakers and/or one or more visual displays, that enable the presentation of media content. The user interface 430 also includes one or more input devices 432, including user interface components that facilitate user input, such as a keyboard, mouse, microphone, touch screen display, camera, other input buttons and controls.

The memory 450 may be removable, non-removable, or a combination thereof. Exemplary hardware devices include solid state memory, hard disk drives, optical disk drives, and the like. Memory 450 optionally includes one or more storage devices physically located remote from processor 410.

The memory 450 includes either volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, and may include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile Memory may be a Read Only Memory (ROM), and the volatile Memory may be a Random Access Memory (RAM). The memory 450 described in embodiments of the invention is intended to comprise any suitable type of memory.

In some embodiments, memory 450 is capable of storing data, examples of which include programs, modules, and data structures, or a subset or superset thereof, to support various operations, as exemplified below.

An operating system 451, including system programs for handling various basic system services and performing hardware-related tasks, such as a framework layer, a core library layer, a driver layer, etc., for implementing various basic services and handling hardware-based tasks;

a network communication module 452 for communicating to other computing devices via one or more (wired or wireless) network interfaces 420, exemplary network interfaces 420 including: bluetooth, wireless compatibility authentication (WiFi), and Universal Serial Bus (USB), etc.;

a presentation module 453 for enabling presentation of information (e.g., user interfaces for operating peripherals and displaying content and information) via one or more output devices 431 (e.g., display screens, speakers, etc.) associated with user interface 430;

an input processing module 454 for detecting one or more user inputs or interactions from one of the one or more input devices 432 and translating the detected inputs or interactions.

In some embodiments, the application starting apparatus provided by the embodiments of the present invention may be implemented in software, and fig. 6 illustrates an application starting apparatus 455 stored in the memory 450, which may be software in the form of programs and plug-ins, and includes the following software modules: a tracking module 4551, a display module 4552, a positioning module 4553 and an activation module 4554, which are logical and thus may be arbitrarily combined or further split depending on the functions implemented.

The functions of the respective modules will be explained below.

In other embodiments, the apparatus provided in the embodiments of the present invention may be implemented in hardware, and for example, the application starting apparatus provided in the embodiments of the present invention may be a processor in the form of a hardware decoding processor, which is programmed to execute the apparatus provided in the embodiments of the present invention. . Methods, for example, a processor in the form of a hardware decoding processor may employ one or more Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), DSPs, Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs), Complex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLDs), Field-Programmable Gate arrays (FPGAs), or other electronic components.

The application starting method provided by the embodiment of the present invention will be described in conjunction with exemplary applications and implementations of the terminal provided by the embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to fig. 7, fig. 7 is an alternative flowchart of a method for providing application startup according to an embodiment of the present invention, which will be described with reference to the steps shown in fig. 7.

And S101, when the sliding operation acting on the current interface is received, tracking the sliding track of the sliding operation in real time.

The method in the embodiment of the invention is suitable for a scene of realizing the extended function by calling the applet or other applications in the current application.

Illustratively, the scenario of jumping from the current interface to the applet interface is realized by calling out an applet entry interface, such as the recently used or frequently used applet interface, on the current interface.

In the embodiment of the invention, the application starting device can monitor the screen operation in real time, and when the sliding operation acting on the current interface is received, the application starting device tracks the sliding track of the sliding operation in real time so as to perform subsequent processing based on the sliding track, and finally realize the starting of the target application.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the current interface may be an APP display interface currently in use, or may also be a standby desktop or a screen locking interface, and the selection is specifically performed according to an actual situation, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present invention.

In the embodiment of the invention, the sliding track is a motion path formed on the screen of the equipment by the sliding operation. In some embodiments, for a screen of a device such as a mobile phone and a tablet, when a sliding operation is a touch sliding on the screen, the application starting device may acquire, through a pressure sensor disposed on the screen such as the mobile phone or the tablet, sensing data of a user touching the screen, and determine a position of a current touch point on the screen through the sensing data; the application starting device tracks the sliding operation in real time, namely the position of each touch point corresponding to the sliding operation can be obtained, so that a sliding track formed by a plurality of touch points is obtained, and the sliding direction and the sliding distance of the sliding track are obtained according to the positions and the trends of the plurality of touch points.

In some embodiments, the application starting apparatus may obtain the sliding direction of the sliding track by analyzing a position relationship of each touch point in the time sequence; the application starting device may calculate different touch points according to the position coordinates of each touch point, such as a distance between the start touch point and the current touch point, as the sliding distance.

S102, when the sliding distance of the sliding track along the first preset direction is smaller than a first preset distance, displaying a shortcut entrance interface in a preset display area of a current interface; the shortcut entry interface is used for displaying a preset number of candidate application icons.

In the embodiment of the invention, when the application starting device monitors that the sliding track moves along the first preset direction through the real-time tracking of the sliding track, the application starting device can calculate the sliding distance of the sliding track in the first preset direction.

In the embodiment of the invention, when the sliding track generates displacement in the first preset direction and the sliding distance in the first preset direction is less than the first preset distance, the application starting device displays the shortcut entrance interface in the preset display area of the current interface.

In the embodiment of the invention, the preset display area can be a display area with a preset size and position on the terminal screen. In some embodiments, the preset display area does not need to completely cover the current interface, and the size and the position of the preset display area may correspond to the first preset direction and the first preset distance.

For example, when the first preset direction is downward sliding, the position of the preset display area may be set at the top of the screen, so that the preset display area may be pulled out through a sliding track that slides downward to display an effect that a display process of the shortcut entry interface corresponds to a sliding operation process. In some embodiments, the width of the preset display area may be the total width of the whole screen, and the height may be set to be the same as the first preset distance, for example, the first preset distance is 1/4 screen height, the height of the preset display area may also be 1/4 screen height, the size of the preset display area may also be set to other values according to the actual use requirement, and the size is specifically selected according to the actual situation, which is not limited in the embodiments of the present invention.

In some embodiments, when the first preset direction is upward or leftward, the preset display area may also be correspondingly disposed below or on the right side of the screen, and the position of the preset display area may be adjusted according to actual application requirements, and is specifically selected according to actual situations, which is not limited in the embodiments of the present invention.

In the embodiment of the invention, the preset display area is used for displaying the shortcut entry interface, and the shortcut entry interface is used for displaying the preset number of candidate applications, namely the calling entries of the preset number of candidate applications. The shortcut entry interface may display a preset number of candidate applications in the form of application icons, or may be in the form of marks or characters, and is specifically selected according to an actual situation. The following embodiment is a scenario in which candidate applications are displayed by application icons.

In the embodiment of the invention, the preset number can be set according to the size of the terminal screen and the size of the application icons. In some embodiments, when the first preset direction is downward and the application starting device is in the effective sliding area and it is monitored that the downward sliding distance of the sliding track is smaller than the first preset distance, the application starting device may display the shortcut entry interface 8-1 shown in fig. 8 in a preset display area of the terminal screen; the shortcut entrance interface displays the application used by the terminal recently in the form of an application icon, the application comprises four candidate applications from the small program 1 to the small program 4, and the application starting device can take the application icon of each small program in the shortcut entrance interface as a call entrance, correspondingly call the corresponding small program and enter the homepage of the small program.

In the embodiment of the invention, the shortcut entrance interface can be displayed with a dynamic slide-out effect along with the sliding process of the sliding track in the first preset direction; or the sliding distance of the sliding track in the first preset direction may be directly displayed when the sliding distance reaches the first preset distance, which is specifically selected according to the actual situation, and the embodiment of the present invention is not limited.

S103, when the sliding track continues to slide along a second preset direction, positioning the target application from the preset number of candidate applications according to the current sliding track.

In the embodiment of the invention, if the sliding operation is not interrupted after the shortcut entrance interface is called out and the sliding track is converted to slide along the second preset direction, the application starting device can position the target application from the preset number of candidate applications according to the sliding position where the sliding track is currently located.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the second preset direction may be a direction corresponding to a preset arrangement sequence of a preset number of candidate applications on the shortcut entry interface, and for example, when the preset number of candidate applications are arranged in a horizontal direction, the second preset direction may be left or right, so that the application starting apparatus may correspond to a position of each candidate application according to a position of the sliding track in the second preset direction, so as to further determine the target application. In some embodiments, the second preset direction may also be set to other directions, which are specifically selected according to actual situations, and the embodiments of the present invention are not limited.

In the embodiment of the invention, the application starting device can display the preset marking effect on the target application so as to prompt the target application. The preset marking effect comprises at least one of the following items: amplifying, selecting frames, and changing transparency.

In some embodiments, the application launching device may enlarge the application icon of the target application by 140% as a preset marking result to mark the target application from a preset number of candidate applications, and the enlargement effect is as shown in fig. 9.

In the embodiment of the invention, as the sliding operation is continuously performed, the current sliding track changes in real time, so that the target application also changes in real time according to the change of the current sliding track. In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 10, when the slide position of the current slide trajectory corresponds to the applet 1, the application launching apparatus determines the applet 1 as a target application icon and renders a zoom-in effect on the icon of the applet 1; when the sliding position of the current sliding track continues to move rightward to the position corresponding to the applet 2, the application launching device determines the applet 2 as the target application and renders a magnification effect on the icon of the applet 2.

In the embodiment of the invention, the application starting device can position the target application icon from the preset number of candidate applications according to the absolute position relation between the positions of the preset number of candidate applications on the screen and the position of the current sliding track; the target application can also be positioned from the preset number of candidate applications according to the relative position relationship between the preset number of candidate applications and the current sliding track.

And S104, jumping to a display interface corresponding to the target application when the sliding operation is finished.

In the embodiment of the invention, when the sliding operation is finished, the sliding track is disconnected, the application starting device takes the end of the sliding operation as a trigger instruction for starting the target application, responds to the trigger instruction for starting the target application, and invokes the target application through the calling entrance of the target application and jumps to the display interface of the target application.

In some embodiments, when the user's finger is released, the application starting device may monitor that the touch pressure on the screen is greatly reduced through the pressure sensor, so that the sliding operation may be considered to be finished. The application starting device may also define other screen events as the end of the sliding operation, such as a heavy press, a preset gesture pattern, or the like, which is specifically selected according to the actual situation, and the embodiment of the present invention is not limited.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the display interface of the target application may be a homepage of the target application or a designated page of the target application, and is specifically selected according to an actual situation, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present invention.

It can be understood that, in the embodiment of the present invention, when a sliding operation acting on the current interface is received, the application starting apparatus may call the shortcut entry interface according to a sliding distance of the sliding track in the first preset direction, and may locate the target application from the shortcut entry interface through the current sliding track in the second preset direction, and finally start the target application when the sliding operation is finished; therefore, calling out an application entry interface, positioning a target application and starting the target application can be realized through one-time sliding operation, screen operation required for calling and starting the target application from the current interface is reduced, and calling efficiency of the application is improved.

In some embodiments of the present invention, referring to fig. 11, fig. 11 is an optional flowchart of the method according to an embodiment of the present invention, based on fig. 7, when the sliding distance of the sliding track along the first preset direction is smaller than the first preset distance, displaying the shortcut entry interface in the preset display area of the current interface in S102 may specifically be implemented by S1021-S1022, and the following steps are combined:

s1021, the current display content of the current interface is displayed in a moving mode along the first preset direction so as to display a preset display area, and in the display process of the preset display area, a quick entry interface is displayed along the display area through which the current display content slides.

In the embodiment of the present invention, as a display mode of the shortcut entrance interface, when the sliding distance of the sliding track along the first preset direction is smaller than the first preset distance, the application starting device may move and display the current display content of the current interface along the first preset direction along with the sliding operation being performed on the current interface, so as to gradually display the preset display area in the screen display area, and in the preset display area, the shortcut entrance interface is displayed along the display area through which the current display content slides, so as to embody an effect that the shortcut entrance interface is gradually displayed along with the sliding operation.

In some embodiments, the current interface is a browser interface, the current display content is as shown in figure 12, when the application starting device monitors the downward sliding operation and the downward sliding distance of the sliding track is less than a first preset distance, the application starting device can integrally move down the currently displayed content 12-1 of the current browser interface, including a search box, a page control, page image-text content and the like, in the process of the sliding operation, and displays the display content of the corresponding position in the shortcut entrance interface 12-3 in the display area 12-2 where the current display content slides, so as to embody the effect of gradually pulling out the shortcut entrance interface 12-1 from above the screen, and when the downward sliding distance reaches a first preset distance, the preset display area is completely displayed, and the shortcut entrance interface 12-3 is completely displayed in the preset display area by applying the starting device.

S1022, displaying a preset number of candidate applications on a preset number of display positions in the shortcut entrance interface according to a preset arrangement sequence; the preset number of candidate applications is a preset number of candidate applications in the at least one candidate application; at least one of the candidate applications is a page-implemented application.

In the embodiment of the invention, in order to determine which terminal application icons are displayed in the shortcut entry interface, the application starting device reads at least one candidate application corresponding to the current interface from the background.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the at least one candidate application acquired by the application starting apparatus may be a shortcut application customized by a user for a current interface, may also be an application recommended in association with the current application, and may also be an application recently run by the terminal or an application recommended by a terminal background and commonly used by a specific user group, which is specifically selected according to an actual situation, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present invention.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 8, the at least one candidate application acquired by the application starting apparatus is an applet 1 to an applet 4 that have been used by the terminal recently. The method comprises the steps that a terminal background can sort small programs running on a terminal in advance according to the sequence of running time from back to front, when an application starting device obtains the small programs used recently from the terminal background, the terminal background can provide the small programs which are ranked forward currently, such as the small programs 1 to the small programs 4, as the small programs used recently to the application starting device, and the small programs are displayed in a quick entry interface.

In the embodiment of the present invention, when the application starting apparatus obtains at least one candidate application, the application starting apparatus may determine a preset number of candidate applications from the at least one candidate application according to a preset arrangement order, and display the preset number of candidate applications on a preset number of display positions of the shortcut entry interface according to the preset arrangement order.

In the embodiment of the invention, because the display position of the shortcut entrance interface is limited, if the icons of at least one candidate application cannot be completely displayed in the shortcut entrance interface, the application starting device can determine the previous preset number of candidate applications from the at least one candidate application according to the preset number of the display positions of the shortcut entrance interface and the preset arrangement sequence, and take the icons corresponding to the previous preset number of candidate applications as the preset number of candidate applications to be sequentially displayed on the corresponding preset number of display positions in the shortcut entrance interface.

In some embodiments, when the shortcut entry interface includes 4 display positions and the application starting apparatus obtains 8 candidate applications, the application starting apparatus may determine, from the 8 candidate applications, the first 4 candidate applications from the 8 candidate applications according to a preset arrangement order of the shortcut entry interface, for example, an order of usage time from back to front and usage frequency from few to few, and display the first 4 candidate applications in the shortcut entry interface.

In some embodiments of the present invention, after S1022, S1023 may also be performed as follows:

and S1023, hiding candidate applications after a preset number of candidate applications in an invisible area of a terminal screen according to a preset arrangement sequence in at least one candidate application.

In the embodiment of the invention, in the shortcut entrance interface, after the application starting device displays the preset number of candidate applications on the preset number of display positions according to the preset arrangement sequence, for the candidate applications arranged behind the preset number of candidate applications, the application starting device hides the candidate applications in the invisible area on one side of the screen according to the preset arrangement sequence, and then the display processing is carried out when needed.

In some embodiments, after the application starting apparatus determines 4 candidate applications from 8 candidate applications, such as the applet 1 to the applet 4, and displays the applet 1 to the applet 4 from left to right on 4 display positions of the shortcut entry interface 13-1, for the remaining 4 candidate applications, such as the applet 5 to the applet 8, the application starting apparatus hides the candidate applications in sequence in a preset arrangement order in the invisible candidate application hiding area 13-2 on the right side of the screen, as shown in fig. 13.

In this embodiment of the present invention, after S1023, S1024 may be further performed, as follows:

and S1024, when the target application is the candidate applications with the preset number and the sliding track continues to slide along the direction corresponding to the preset arrangement sequence, moving the candidate applications with the preset number and the candidate applications before the candidate applications with the preset number to the previous display position, and displaying the candidate applications next to the candidate applications with the preset arrangement sequence at the last display position of the display positions with the preset number.

In the embodiment of the present invention, when the target application icon is the candidate applications with the first preset number, it is described that the target application is the last candidate application in the preset number. Since at least one candidate application is arranged according to the preset arrangement sequence, if the sliding track continues to slide along the corresponding direction of the preset arrangement sequence, the purpose of the sliding operation is to view the candidate applications after the first preset number of candidate applications in the shortcut entry interface. The application starting device may move the first preset number of candidate applications and the candidate applications before the first preset number of candidate applications to the previous display position to vacate the last display position, and display the next candidate application in the preset arrangement order at the last display position correspondingly.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 14, at least one candidate application is an applet 1 to an applet 8, the direction corresponding to the preset arrangement sequence is from left to right, and the applets 1 to 4 are displayed on 4 display positions in the shortcut entry interface 14-1 from left to right, where the applet 4 is located at the 4 th display position, that is, the last display position. The applets 5 to 8 hide the candidate application hidden area 14-2 on the right side of the screen. When the target application is the applet 4 and the application starting device monitors that the sliding track continues to slide rightwards, the application starting device sequentially moves the applet 4 and the

applets

1, 2 and 3 before the applet 4 forwards by one display position, displays the applet 2 on the first display position, displays the applet 4 on the 3 rd display position, vacates the 4 th display position, namely the last display position, and migrates the applet 5 after the applet 4 to display on the 4 th display position. In this way, the displayed applets of the current shortcut entry interface are the applet 2, the applet 3, the applet 4 and the applet 5 from left to right, and the display of the candidate application in the candidate application hidden area 14-2 is realized.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present invention, when the number of the at least one candidate application is less than the preset number, the application starting device may completely display the applications corresponding to the at least one candidate application at the corresponding display positions according to the preset arrangement sequence, and does not perform display processing on redundant display positions.

It can be understood that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the application starting apparatus may display a plurality of candidate applications through the shortcut entry interface, and the application starting apparatus may hide candidate applications that are not displayed in the shortcut entry interface, and open and display the hidden candidate applications through the sliding track in the direction corresponding to the preset arrangement sequence, so that the display space of the shortcut entry interface is saved, and the terminal may simultaneously display the current display content of the current interface and the shortcut entry interface through one screen page, so that a user may know the currently callable candidate applications while browsing the current display content, and determine whether to call the applications, thereby improving the efficiency of calling the applications.

In some embodiments of the present invention, referring to fig. 15, fig. 15 is an optional flowchart schematic diagram of a method provided in the embodiments of the present invention, based on fig. 7, when the sliding track slides along the second preset direction, locating the target application from the preset number of candidate applications according to the current sliding track in S103 may be specifically implemented through S1031 to S1033, which will be described with reference to the following steps:

s1031, obtaining the current sliding position of the sliding track; the current sliding position is the position of the current track point of the sliding track on the display screen.

In the embodiment of the invention, when the sliding track slides along the second preset direction, the application starting device acquires the current closest track point of the sliding track on the screen as the current sliding position.

In some embodiments, the current sliding position is a current coordinate of a closest track point of the sliding track on the terminal screen.

S1032, determining the target screen area where the current sliding position falls.

In the embodiment of the invention, the application starting device can divide the display area of the terminal screen into the preset number of subareas along the second preset direction, so that the preset number of screen areas can be obtained. The screen areas with the preset number correspond to the candidate applications with the preset number one by one, and each screen area contains one candidate application. In this way, the application starting device may determine, from a preset number of screen regions, a target screen region into which the current sliding position falls according to the current sliding position of the sliding trajectory, and further determine the candidate application included in the target screen region.

In some embodiments, the second predetermined direction may be a transverse left-to-right or right-to-left direction. When 4 candidate applications are displayed in the shortcut entry interface in a horizontal row, the application starting apparatus may transversely divide the display area of the terminal screen with the width W into 4 screen areas, where each screen area is 1/4 of the width of the terminal screen, and one candidate application is displayed in each screen area, as shown in fig. 16.

In some embodiments, the application starting apparatus may determine, from a preset number of screen regions, a screen region including the current coordinate as the target screen region by an absolute coordinate of the current sliding position, that is, the current coordinate. Specifically, the application starting device compares the current sliding position with the area range occupied by the preset number of screen areas, and determines the screen area containing the current sliding position as the target screen area.

In some embodiments, the application launching device may also determine the target screen area by relative coordinates. Specifically, the application starting device can determine real-time relative displacement according to the sliding track; based on the mapping relationship between the preset displacement and the application, illustratively, the real-time relative displacement is amplified by a preset multiple, and the target application corresponding to the real-time relative displacement is determined from the preset number of candidate applications, so that the current coordinate can be mapped to the whole screen area in a smaller moving range, and the moving distance of a user during operation is reduced.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the application starting apparatus determines the target screen area according to the absolute coordinate or the relative coordinate corresponding to the current sliding position, which is to implement two parallel method flows of S1032, and may be selected according to specific needs in practical application, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present invention.

S1033, determining candidate applications having a corresponding relationship with the target screen area from the preset number of candidate applications as target applications.

In the embodiment of the invention, after the application starting device determines the target screen area, because each screen area is in one-to-one correspondence with the candidate application, the application starting device takes the candidate application having the correspondence with the target screen area as the target application.

In some embodiments, the application launching device treats the candidate application contained in the target screen area as the target application.

In some embodiments, when the first preset direction is downward, the second preset direction is leftward or rightward, and the first preset distance is Y1, based on the preset number of screen regions shown in fig. 16, the process of the application launching device invoking the quick access interface through a pull-down operation, and determining and launching the target application from the quick access interface may be as shown in fig. 17. The description will be made with reference to the steps:

and S170, monitoring a pull-down operation.

In S170, the application starting device monitors the screen operation of the current interface, and when the finger of the user slides down on the current interface, the application starting device can monitor the pull-down operation acting on the current interface.

And S171, acquiring a pull-down distance H.

In S171, the application starting device obtains the downward displacement of the pull-down operation on the Y axis on the screen coordinate system, and obtains the pull-down distance H.

And S172, reading the recently used applet by the terminal background, and sending the read at least one applet icon and name to the front-end interface.

In S172, the newly used applet corresponds to at least one candidate application in the embodiment of the present invention. And when H is more than 0 and less than or equal to Y1, reading the most recently used applet by the terminal background, sending the read at least one applet icon and the name to the front-end interface, receiving the applet icon and the name by the application starting device, and displaying the applet icon as an entry of the at least one applet in the shortcut entry interface through the application starting device.

And S173, a falling shortcut entrance interface.

In S173, when H is greater than 0 and less than or equal to Y1, the application launching device drops the shortcut entrance interface from above the current interface.

And S174, acquiring the current sliding position.

In S174, when the application starting device detects that the sliding track corresponding to the sliding operation has displacement on the X axis, it indicates that the sliding track turns to the second preset direction. And the application starting device acquires the coordinate of the nearest track point in the sliding track as the current sliding position.

And S175, judging the X-axis coordinate in the current sliding position.

In S175, the application starting apparatus determines a position relationship between the X-axis coordinate in the current sliding position and the preset number of screen regions in fig. 16, so as to correspond to the target screen region according to the X-axis coordinate in the current sliding position, thereby determining the target application.

And S176, when the X is more than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 1/4W, the application starting device enlarges the applet 1 icon by 140%.

In S176, when X is equal to or greater than 0 and X is equal to or less than 1/4W, the X-axis coordinate in the current sliding position falls within the screen area 1 of fig. 16, the application startup device displays an icon enlargement effect on the target application with the screen area 1 as the target screen area and the applet 1 in the screen area 1 as the target application, and enlarges the application icon of the applet 1 by 140%.

And S177, when X is larger than 1/4W and X is smaller than or equal to 2/4W, the application starting device enlarges the application icon of the small program 2 by 140%.

In S177, when X is greater than 1/4W and X is less than or equal to 2/4W, the X-axis coordinate in the current sliding position falls within the screen area 2 of fig. 16, the application startup device displays an icon enlargement effect on the target application with the screen area 2 as the target screen area and the applet 2 in the screen area 2 as the target application, and enlarges the application icon of the applet 2 by 140%.

And S178, when X is larger than 2/4W and X is smaller than or equal to 3/4W, the application launching device enlarges the application icon of the small program 3 by 140%.

In S178, when X is greater than 2/4W and X is less than or equal to 3/4W, the X-axis coordinate in the current sliding position falls in the screen area 3 of fig. 16, the application startup device displays an icon enlargement effect on the target application with the screen area 3 as the target screen area and the applet 3 in the screen area 3 as the target application, enlarging the application icon of the applet 3 by 140%.

And S179, when X is larger than 3/4W and X is smaller than or equal to W, the application starting device enlarges the application icon of the small program 4 by 140%.

In S179, when X is greater than 3/4W and X is less than or equal to W, the X-axis coordinate in the current sliding position falls within the screen area 4 of fig. 16, the application startup device displays an icon enlargement effect on the target application with the screen area 4 as the target screen area and the applet 4 in the screen area 4 as the target application, and enlarges the application icon of the applet 4 by 140%.

And S180, finishing the sliding operation and starting the small program 1.

In S180, when it is monitored that the sliding operation is finished when the target application is the applet 1, the application starting apparatus starts the applet 1 and notifies the terminal background to call the applet 1.

S181, the slide operation is completed, and the applet 2 is started.

In S181, when it is monitored that the sliding operation is completed when the target application is the applet 2, the application starting apparatus starts the applet 2, and notifies the terminal background to call the applet 2.

S182, the slide operation is completed, and the applet 3 is started.

In S182, when it is detected that the sliding operation is finished when the target application is the applet 3, the application starting apparatus starts the applet 3 and notifies the terminal background to call the applet 3.

And S183, finishing the sliding operation and starting the small program 4.

In S183, when it is monitored that the sliding operation is completed when the target application is the applet 4, the application starting apparatus starts the applet 4, and notifies the terminal background to call the applet 4.

And S184, calling a single applet software development kit, and opening an applet homepage.

In S184, the terminal background receives the applet that needs to be started and is notified by the front end, and calls a single applet Software Development Kit (SDK) of the applet to open the applet homepage.

In some embodiments, for a scenario where a user performs applet calling by sliding a finger on a screen, as shown in fig. 18, when a pull-down distance of the user performing a pull-down operation on the screen is less than a first preset distance, the application starting apparatus pulls down a shortcut entry interface from a current interface, that is, a browser home page, where the most recently used applets 1 to 4 are displayed in the shortcut entry interface. The user can slide left and right to select the nearest applet without lifting a finger in the state of pulling out the shortcut entrance interface display, namely, the sliding operation is not finished, but the applet to be called is selected from the applet 1 and the applet 4 by sliding the finger in the left and right directions, then the selected applet is stopped to be released to enter the applet home page, if the selected applet 1 is stopped to be released, the application starting device can monitor that the sliding operation is finished, the user jumps to the applet 1 home page, and the applet 1 is called.

In some embodiments of the present invention, after S1022 and before S103, S001-S002 may also be performed as follows:

and S001, determining a preset selected application from the preset number of candidate applications.

In the embodiment of the invention, when the application starting device determines that the preset number of candidate applications are displayed in the shortcut entry interface from the at least one candidate application, the application starting device may further determine the preset selected application from the preset number of candidate applications, and take the application of the preset selected application as the first target application.

In the embodiment of the invention, the application starting device determines a first candidate application in a preset number of candidate applications as a preset selected application according to a preset arrangement sequence; or determining the current application corresponding to the current interface; and acquiring a preset associated application corresponding to the current application as a preset selected application.

In some embodiments, the application starting device may further take a candidate application corresponding to the closest trajectory point of the current sliding trajectory as a preset selected application when the sliding operation slides in the first preset direction to pull out the shortcut entry interface and the sliding trajectory does not start to move in the second preset direction, and the selection is specifically performed according to an actual situation, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present invention.

And S002, rendering a preset marking effect on the preset selected application.

In the embodiment of the invention, the application starting device also performs preset marking effect rendering on the application icon corresponding to the preset selected application, illustratively performs preset marking effects such as amplification, frame selection, check, transparency change and the like to embody the selected state of the preset selected application.

In some embodiments, the application starting apparatus may obtain whether the current application has a recommended applet or application, and when the applet recommended by the current application, for example, a browser home page, is the applet 3, the application starting apparatus takes the applet 3 as a preset selected application by obtaining the recommended applet of the browser home page, and performs rendering of a preset marking effect of icon enlargement by 140% on the applet 3 when a shortcut entry interface is displayed, as shown in fig. 19.

It can be understood that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the application starting apparatus may determine the preset selected application from the preset number of candidate applications, so that the target application may be quickly located through the preset selected application, and the efficiency of application invocation is improved.

In some embodiments of the present invention, based on fig. 7, after S102, S105 may be further executed, which will be described with reference to the following steps:

s105, when the sliding track slides along the direction opposite to the first preset direction, the shortcut entrance interface is retracted, and the current display content of the current interface is moved to the initial position of the current display content along with the sliding track.

In the embodiment of the present invention, after the shortcut entrance interface is displayed in S102, when the application starting device monitors that the sliding direction of the sliding track is changed to the opposite direction of the first preset direction, the shortcut entrance interface is retracted along the opposite direction of the first preset direction, and the current display content of the current interface slides through the display area to the initial position of the current display content along with the retracted shortcut entrance interface.

In some embodiments, based on the method flow shown in fig. 17, after S173, S185-S186 can be executed as shown in fig. 20, which will be described in conjunction with the steps.

And S185, acquiring a pull-down distance H2.

In S185, when the application starting device monitors that the sliding track generated in real time by the sliding operation generates displacement in the Y axis, the application starting device calculates the pull-down distance H2 corresponding to the current Y axis displacement according to the starting point coordinate of the sliding track in the Y axis and the current closest track point coordinate.

And S186, when H2 is smaller than H, retracting the shortcut entrance interface.

In S186, when H2 is smaller than H, it indicates that the sliding direction of the sliding track is changed to the direction opposite to the first preset direction, and the shortcut entrance interface is retracted by the application starting device along the direction opposite to the first preset direction, so as to close the display of the shortcut entrance interface.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 21. After the user displays the shortcut entrance interface through the pull-down operation, if the user continues to pull up without loosing his hand in the display state of the shortcut entrance interface, the application starting device can determine that the sliding direction is changed to the opposite direction of the first preset direction by tracking the sliding track. And the application starting device retracts the shortcut entrance interface and restores the display of the current display content in the current interface on the initial position.

It can be understood that in the embodiment of the invention, the display and the retraction of the shortcut entry interface can be completed through one-time sliding operation, so that the operation paths for unfolding and closing the shortcut entry interface are reduced, and the convenience of screen operation is improved.

In some embodiments of the present invention, based on fig. 7, after S101, S106 may be further executed, which will be described with reference to the following steps:

and S106, when the sliding distance of the sliding track along the first preset direction is larger than the first preset distance and smaller than the second preset distance, covering the current interface by adopting a previous layer, and displaying an application entry interface in the previous layer.

In the embodiment of the invention, when the sliding distance of the sliding track along the first preset direction is greater than the first preset distance and smaller than the second preset distance, the application starting device displays the application entry interface in a covering manner in the upper layer of the current interface.

In some embodiments, when the first preset direction is downward, for a pull-down operation in which the pull-down distance is greater than the first preset distance and less than the second preset distance, the application launching apparatus may completely overlay and display the application entry interface on the current interface, i.e., the browser home page interface, as shown in fig. 22, for example, the application entry interface may be implemented as an applet center.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal screen may be divided into an operation layer as shown in fig. 23-1, a function entry layer as shown in fig. 23-2, and a base page layer as shown in fig. 23-3, where the positional relationship between the operation layer, the function entry layer, and the base page layer is as shown in fig. 24, the function entry layer is displayed to be overlaid on the base page layer, and the operation layer is an invisible layer and is overlaid on the function entry layer.

In the embodiment of the invention, the operation layer is used for receiving external operations such as clicking, sliding, long pressing and the like on a terminal screen, and when the sliding operation along a first preset direction is received, the application starting device can compare the sliding distance of the sliding track in the first preset direction with a first preset distance and a second preset distance so as to correspondingly call a shortcut entrance interface or an application entrance interface in the function entrance layer; the function entry layer is used for displaying at least one application entry of the application so as to realize page display and function realization by jumping to a specified application from the current application through the at least one application entry. In some embodiments, when the first preset direction is downward, the page layout of the function portal layer may lay the application portal interface 23-12 above the shortcut portal interface 23-11 as shown in fig. 23-2. Therefore, when the sliding distance in the first preset direction is smaller than the first preset distance and the starting device is applied to pull down the page corresponding to the function entry layer, the shortcut entry interface is displayed firstly; and when the sliding distance is continuously downward until the sliding distance is larger than the first preset distance and is smaller than or equal to the second preset distance, the shortcut entrance interface is pulled down to a non-display area below the terminal screen, and the application starting device displays the application entrance interface on the terminal screen. The base page layer is used to display the current display content of the current interface, and may be, for example, a home page of the browser application.

It can be understood that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the application starting device may call the shortcut entry interface or the application entry interface correspondingly through different sliding distances of the sliding track in the first preset direction, and may complete display of the two interfaces through one sliding operation, thereby improving operation efficiency of the terminal interface.

In the following, an exemplary application of the embodiments of the present invention in a practical application scenario will be described.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the width of the terminal screen is W, when the current interface is a browser home page, the application entry interface is an applet center, the first preset direction is downward, the second preset direction is leftward or rightward, the first preset distance is Y1, and the second preset distance is Y2, the application starting apparatus may implement the application starting method in the embodiment of the present invention through the method flow shown in fig. 25, as follows:

and S240, monitoring an operation layer.

In S240, based on the terminal screen structures shown in fig. 23-1 and fig. 24, the application starting apparatus listens for a screen operation event occurring on the operation layer.

And S241, when the pull-down operation is monitored, executing S243, otherwise, executing S242.

And S242, displaying the browser home page.

In S242, when the pull-down operation is not monitored, the application starting apparatus normally displays the current display content of the browser home page.

And S243, acquiring a pull-down distance H.

In S243, when the pull-down distance is monitored, the application starting apparatus may calculate the pull-down distance H according to the coordinate from the starting point of the pull-down operation to the current closest point. When H is greater than zero and less than or equal to Y1, S245 is executed correspondingly; when H is greater than Y1 and less than or equal to Y2, S244 is performed accordingly.

And S244, dropping the center of the small program.

The process of the applet center drop in S244 is the same as that described in S106, and is not described again here.

And S245, dropping the quick entrance interface.

In S245, the process of dropping the shortcut entry interface is consistent with the descriptions of S1021-S1024, and is not described herein again.

And S246, acquiring the current sliding position.

In S246, after the shortcut entrance interface falls and displays, the application starting apparatus continues to track the current sliding position of the sliding track, and when the current sliding position generates displacement in the X axis of the terminal screen, S247 is executed; when the current slide position is displaced in the X-axis of the terminal screen, S248 is performed.

And S247, acquiring the X-axis coordinate of the current sliding position.

In S247, the process of obtaining the X-axis coordinate of the current sliding position is consistent with the description of S175, and is not further described here.

And S248, acquiring a pull-down distance H2.

In S248, the process of obtaining the pull-down distance H2 is consistent with the description of S185, and is not described herein again.

And S249, when the X-axis coordinate is greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 1/4W, enlarging the applet 1 icon as a target application icon by 140%.

The process of S249 is consistent with the description of S176, and is not described herein again.

And S250, when the X-axis coordinate is larger than 1/4W and smaller than or equal to 2/4W, enlarging the icon of the small program 2 as a target application icon by 140%.

The process of S250 is consistent with the description of S177, and is not described herein again.

And S251, when the X-axis coordinate is larger than 2/4W and smaller than or equal to 3/4W, the small program 3 icon is used as the target application icon and is enlarged by 140%.

The process of S251 is consistent with that of S178, and is not described herein again.

And S252, when the X-axis coordinate is larger than 3/4W and smaller than or equal to W, magnifying the icon of the applet 4 as a target application icon by 140%.

The process of S252 is consistent with the description of S179, and is not described herein again.

And S253, finishing the sliding operation and starting the small program 1.

The process of S253 is consistent with the description of S180, and is not described herein again.

S254, the slide operation is ended, and the applet 2 is started.

The process of S254 is consistent with that described in S181, and is not described again here.

S255, the sliding operation is ended, and the applet 3 is started.

The process of S255 is consistent with the description of S182, and is not described herein again.

S256, the sliding operation is completed, and the applet 4 is started.

The process of S256 is consistent with that of S183, and is not described herein again.

S257, retracting the shortcut interface.

The process of S257 is consistent with that of S186, and is not described again here.

And S258, dropping the center of the small program.

The process of S258 is consistent with the description of S244, and is not repeated here.

It can be understood that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the application starting apparatus may track the sliding track generated by one sliding operation, complete interface display of different function pages and display and positioning of different applications according to the distance or position of the sliding track in different preset directions, and open the positioned target application when the sliding operation is finished, thereby implementing calling of the target application through one operation, and improving the calling efficiency of the application.

Continuing with the exemplary structure of the application launching device 455 provided by the embodiments of the present invention implemented as software modules, in some embodiments, as shown in fig. 6, the software modules stored in the application launching device 455 of the memory 450 may include:

the tracking module 4551 is configured to track a sliding track of a sliding operation in real time when the sliding operation acting on a current interface is received;

a display module 4552, configured to display a shortcut entry interface in a preset display area of the current interface when a sliding distance of the sliding track along a first preset direction is smaller than a first preset distance; the shortcut entry interface is used for displaying a preset number of candidate application icons;

a positioning module 4553, configured to, when the sliding track continues to slide along a second preset direction, position a target application from the preset number of candidate applications according to a current sliding track;

and a starting module 4554, configured to jump to a display interface corresponding to the target application when the sliding operation is finished.

In some embodiments, the display module 4552 is further configured to display the currently displayed content of the current interface in a moving manner along the first preset direction to display the preset display area, and in the displaying process of the preset display area, display a shortcut entry interface along the display area through which the currently displayed content slides; displaying the preset number of candidate applications on a preset number of display positions in the shortcut entrance interface according to a preset arrangement sequence; the preset number of candidate applications is a preset number of candidate applications in at least one candidate application; the at least one candidate application is a page-implemented application.

In some embodiments, the positioning module 4553 is further configured to acquire a current sliding position of the sliding track; the current sliding position is the position of a current track point of the sliding track on a display screen; determining a target screen area in which the current sliding position falls; and determining candidate applications having a corresponding relation with the target screen area from the preset number of candidate applications as the target applications.

In some embodiments, the positioning module 4553 is further configured to compare the current sliding position with an area range occupied by a preset number of screen areas, and determine that the screen area including the current sliding position is the target screen area; the preset number of screen areas is obtained by dividing a display area of a terminal screen into a preset number of partitions along a second preset direction, and the preset number of screen areas corresponds to the preset number of candidate applications one to one.

In some embodiments, the positioning module 4553 is further configured to determine a real-time relative displacement according to the sliding trajectory; and determining a target application corresponding to the real-time relative displacement from the preset number of candidate applications based on the mapping relation between the preset displacement and the application.

In some embodiments, the display module 4552 is further configured to, after the shortcut entry interface is displayed in the preset display area of the current interface, when the sliding track slides in a direction opposite to the first preset direction, collapse the shortcut entry interface, and move the currently displayed content of the current interface to an initial position of the currently displayed content.

In some embodiments, the display module 4552 is further configured to, after the real-time tracking of the sliding track of the sliding operation, cover the current interface with a previous layer and display an application entry interface in the previous layer when a sliding distance of the sliding track along a first preset direction is greater than the first preset distance and smaller than the second preset distance.

In some embodiments, the display module 4552 is further configured to display a preset mark-up effect on the target application after the target application is located from the preset number of candidate applications according to the current sliding track, where the preset mark-up effect includes at least one of: amplifying, selecting frames, and changing transparency.

In some embodiments, the application starting apparatus 455 further includes a determining module, configured to determine, after the preset number of candidate applications are displayed at the preset number of display positions according to the preset arrangement order in the shortcut entry interface, a preset selected application from the preset number of candidate applications before a target application is located from the preset number of candidate applications according to the current sliding track; and displaying a preset marking effect on the preset selected application.

In some embodiments, the determining module is further configured to determine, according to the preset arrangement order, a first candidate application of the preset number of candidate applications as a preset selected application; or determining the current application corresponding to the current interface; and acquiring a preset associated application corresponding to the current application as the preset selected application.

In some embodiments, the display module 4552 is further configured to hide, in the shortcut entrance interface, the candidate applications after the preset number of candidate applications in the at least one candidate application in the invisible area of the terminal screen according to a preset arrangement order after the preset number of candidate applications are displayed at a preset number of display positions.

In some embodiments, the display module 4552 is further configured to, after hiding the candidate applications, which are subsequent to the preset number of candidate applications, in the at least one candidate application according to the preset arrangement order, when the target application is a first preset number of candidate applications and the sliding track continues to slide along a direction corresponding to the preset arrangement order, move the first preset number of candidate applications and the candidate applications that are previous to the first preset number of candidate applications to a previous display position, and display a next candidate application in the preset arrangement order at a last display position of the preset number of display positions.

It should be noted that the above description of the embodiment of the apparatus, similar to the above description of the embodiment of the method, has similar beneficial effects as the embodiment of the method. For technical details not disclosed in the embodiments of the apparatus according to the invention, reference is made to the description of the embodiments of the method according to the invention for understanding.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer program product or computer program comprising computer instructions stored in a computer readable storage medium. The processor of the computer device reads the computer instructions from the computer-readable storage medium, and the processor executes the computer instructions, so that the computer device executes the application starting method according to the embodiment of the present invention.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method provided by embodiments of the present invention, for example, the method shown in fig. 7.

In some embodiments, the computer-readable storage medium may be memory such as FRAM, ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM, flash, magnetic surface memory, optical disk, or CD-ROM; or may be various devices including one or any combination of the above memories.

In some embodiments, executable instructions may be written in any form of programming language (including compiled or interpreted languages), in the form of programs, software modules, scripts or code, and may be deployed in any form, including as a stand-alone program or as a module, component, subroutine, or other unit suitable for use in a computing environment.

By way of example, executable instructions may correspond, but do not necessarily have to correspond, to files in a file system, and may be stored in a portion of a file that holds other programs or data, such as in one or more scripts in a hypertext Markup Language (HTML) document, in a single file dedicated to the program in question, or in multiple coordinated files (e.g., files that store one or more modules, sub-programs, or portions of code).

By way of example, executable instructions may be deployed to be executed on one computing device or on multiple computing devices at one site or distributed across multiple sites and interconnected by a communication network.

In summary, according to the embodiment of the present invention, when a sliding operation acting on a current interface is received, a shortcut entry interface can be called according to a sliding distance of a sliding track in a first preset direction, a target application can be located from the shortcut entry interface through the current sliding track in a second preset direction, and finally the target application is started when the sliding operation is finished; therefore, calling out an application entry interface, positioning a target application and starting the target application can be realized through one-time sliding operation, screen operation required for calling and starting the target application from the current interface is reduced, and calling efficiency of the application is improved. Furthermore, the application starting device can display a plurality of candidate applications through the shortcut entrance interface, the application starting device can hide the candidate applications which are not displayed in the shortcut entrance interface, the hidden candidate applications are opened and displayed through the sliding tracks in the corresponding directions of the preset arrangement sequence, the display space of the shortcut entrance interface is saved, the current display content of the current interface and the shortcut entrance interface can be displayed simultaneously through one screen page at the terminal, a user can conveniently know the current available candidate applications while browsing the current display content, and whether the application is available or not is determined, so that the application calling efficiency is improved. Furthermore, the application starting device can determine the preset selected application from the preset number of candidate applications, so that the target application can be quickly positioned through the preset selected application, and the application calling efficiency is further improved. Furthermore, the application starting device can complete the display and the packing of the shortcut entrance interface through one-time sliding operation, so that the operation paths for unfolding and closing the shortcut entrance interface are reduced, and the convenience of screen operation is improved.

The above description is only an example of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. Any modification, equivalent replacement, and improvement made within the spirit and scope of the present invention are included in the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. An application startup method, comprising:

when the sliding distance of the sliding track along a first preset direction is smaller than a first preset distance, displaying a shortcut entrance interface in a preset display area of the current interface; the shortcut entry interface is used for displaying a preset number of candidate applications;

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the displaying the shortcut entry interface in the preset display area of the current interface comprises:

moving and displaying the current display content of the current interface along the first preset direction to display the preset display area, and displaying a shortcut entrance interface along the display area through which the current display content slides in the display process of the preset display area;

displaying the preset number of candidate applications on a preset number of display positions in the shortcut entrance interface according to a preset arrangement sequence; the preset number of candidate applications is a preset number of candidate applications in at least one candidate application; the at least one candidate application is a page-implemented application.

3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the locating a target application from the preset number of candidate applications according to the current sliding trajectory comprises:

acquiring the current sliding position of the sliding track; the current sliding position is the position of a current track point of the sliding track on a display screen;

determining a target screen area in which the current sliding position falls;

and determining candidate applications having a corresponding relation with the target screen area from the preset number of candidate applications as the target applications.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein determining the target screen area into which the current swipe location falls comprises:

comparing the current sliding position with the area range occupied by a preset number of screen areas, and determining the screen area containing the current sliding position as the target screen area; the preset number of screen areas is obtained by dividing a display area of a terminal screen into a preset number of partitions along a second preset direction, and the preset number of screen areas corresponds to the preset number of candidate applications one to one.

5. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the locating a target application from the preset number of candidate applications according to the current sliding trajectory comprises:

determining real-time relative displacement according to the sliding track;

and determining a target application corresponding to the real-time relative displacement from the preset number of candidate applications based on the mapping relation between the preset displacement and the application.

6. The method according to any one of claims 1-5, wherein after displaying the shortcut entry interface in the preset display area of the current interface, the method further comprises:

when the sliding track slides along the direction opposite to the first preset direction, the shortcut entrance interface is retracted, and the current display content of the current interface is moved to the initial position of the current display content along with the sliding track.

7. The method according to any one of claims 1-5, wherein after tracking the sliding trajectory of the sliding operation in real time, the method further comprises:

and when the sliding distance of the sliding track along a first preset direction is greater than the first preset distance and smaller than the second preset distance, covering the current interface by adopting a previous layer, and displaying an application entry interface in the previous layer.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein after locating the target application from the preset number of candidate applications according to the current sliding trajectory, the method further comprises:

displaying a preset marking effect on the target application, wherein the preset marking effect comprises at least one of the following items: amplifying, selecting frames, and changing transparency.

9. The method according to claim 2, wherein after displaying the preset number of candidate applications at a preset number of display positions according to a preset arrangement order in the shortcut entry interface, before locating a target application from the preset number of candidate applications according to a current sliding track, the method further comprises:

determining a preset selected application from the preset number of candidate applications;

and displaying a preset marking effect on the preset selected application.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein determining a predetermined selected application from the predetermined number of candidate applications comprises:

determining a first candidate application in the preset number of candidate applications as a preset selected application according to the preset arrangement sequence; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

determining a current application corresponding to the current interface; and acquiring a preset associated application corresponding to the current application as the preset selected application.

11. The method according to any one of claims 2 to 10, wherein after displaying the preset number of candidate applications on a preset number of display positions in a preset arrangement order in the shortcut entry interface, the method further comprises:

and hiding the candidate applications after the preset number of candidate applications in the at least one candidate application in an invisible area of a terminal screen according to the preset arrangement sequence.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein after hiding the candidate applications of the at least one candidate application after the predetermined number of candidate applications in the predetermined arrangement order, the method further comprises:

when the target application is a first preset number of candidate applications and the sliding track continues to slide along the direction corresponding to the preset arrangement sequence, the first preset number of candidate applications and the candidate applications before the first preset number of candidate applications are moved to the previous display position, and the next candidate application in the preset arrangement sequence is displayed at the last display position of the preset number of display positions.

13. An application startup device, characterized by comprising:

14. An electronic device, comprising:

a memory for storing executable instructions;

a processor for implementing the method of any one of claims 1 to 12 when executing executable instructions stored in the memory.

15. A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon executable instructions for, when executed by a processor, implementing the method of any one of claims 1 to 12.