CN112181229A

CN112181229A - Icon display control method and device and electronic equipment

Info

Publication number: CN112181229A
Application number: CN202011060504.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 何彦军
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Hangzhou Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Hangzhou Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-09-30
Filing date: 2020-09-30
Publication date: 2021-01-05
Also published as: WO2022068720A1

Abstract

The application discloses an icon display control method and device and electronic equipment, and belongs to the technical field of communication. The problem of low grouping efficiency of the corresponding icons can be solved. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a first input of a first combined icon and a target icon, wherein the first combined icon is an icon formed by combining M sub-icons, the target icon is an application icon or an icon formed by combining N sub-icons, and M and N are integers larger than 1; and in response to the first input, canceling the display of the first combined icon and the target icon, and displaying a second combined icon, wherein the second combined icon is an icon formed by combining the M sub-icons and the one application icon, or an icon formed by combining the M sub-icons and the N sub-icons.

Description

Icon display control method and device and electronic equipment

Technical Field

The application belongs to the technical field of communication, and particularly relates to an icon display control method and device and electronic equipment.

Background

With the development of communication technology, more and more applications are installed on electronic devices.

Generally, when the number of applications installed on the electronic device is large, a user may trigger the electronic device to place icons of a plurality of applications (hereinafter, simply referred to as application icons) in one folder, thereby triggering the electronic device to group the plurality of application icons.

However, based on the above grouping manner of the application icons, if a user wants to put the application icons in one group and the application icons in another group into one folder, the user can drag the application icons in the one group into the other group one by one, which results in low efficiency of grouping the application icons by the electronic device.

Disclosure of Invention

An object of the embodiments of the present application is to provide an icon display control method and apparatus, and an electronic device, which can solve the problem of low efficiency in grouping icons.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an icon display control method, including: receiving a first input of a first combined icon and a target icon, wherein the first combined icon is an icon formed by combining M sub-icons, the target icon is an application icon or an icon formed by combining N sub-icons, and M and N are integers larger than 1; and in response to the first input, canceling the display of the first combined icon and the target icon, and displaying a second combined icon, wherein the second combined icon is an icon formed by combining the M sub-icons and the one application icon, or an icon formed by combining the M sub-icons and the N sub-icons. Wherein each sub-icon is used to indicate an application.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an icon display control apparatus, including: the device comprises a receiving module and a display module. The receiving module is used for receiving a first input of a first combined icon and a target icon, wherein the first combined icon is an icon combined by M sub-icons, the target icon is an application icon or an icon combined by N sub-icons, and M and N are integers larger than 1. And the display module is used for responding to the first input received by the receiving module, canceling the display of the first combined icon and the target icon and displaying a second combined icon, wherein the second combined icon is an icon formed by combining the M sub-icons and the application icon or an icon formed by combining the M sub-icons and the N sub-icons. Wherein each sub-icon is used to indicate an application.

In a third aspect, embodiments of the present application provide an electronic device, which includes a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored on the memory and executable on the processor, where the program or instructions, when executed by the processor, implement the steps of the method as in the first aspect.

In a fourth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a readable storage medium, on which a program or instructions are stored, which when executed by a processor implement the steps of the method as in the first aspect described above.

In a fifth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a chip, where the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, where the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is configured to execute a program or instructions to implement the method as in the first aspect.

In the embodiment of the application, a first input to a first combined icon and a target icon can be received, wherein the first combined icon is an icon combined by M sub-icons, the target icon is an application icon or an icon combined by N sub-icons, and M and N are integers greater than 1; and in response to the first input, canceling the display of the first combined icon and the target icon, and displaying a second combined icon, wherein the second combined icon is an icon formed by combining the M sub-icons and the one application icon, or an icon formed by combining the M sub-icons and the N sub-icons. Wherein each sub-icon is used to indicate an application. By the scheme, if a user wants to group the M sub-icons included in the first combined icon and the target icon into one group, the user can trigger the electronic device to display the second combined icon including the M sub-icons and the target icon through one input of the first combined icon and the target icon, namely, the first combined icon and the target icon are combined to group the M sub-icons and the target icon into one group, and the user does not need to frequently trigger to drag the application icons in one group into another group one by one. Thus, the efficiency of grouping the corresponding icons is improved.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an icon display control method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a combination icon triggered to be displayed according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 3 is a second schematic diagram of a combination icon triggered to be displayed according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a second schematic diagram illustrating an icon display control method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating an update sub-icon display manner according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 6 is a third schematic diagram illustrating an icon display control method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 7 is a fourth schematic diagram illustrating an icon display control method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 is a third schematic diagram illustrating a combination icon being triggered to be displayed according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of an application program according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of an icon display control apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 11 is a second schematic structural diagram of an icon display control apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 12 is a schematic structural diagram of an electronic device provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 13 is a hardware schematic diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present application. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

The terms first, second and the like in the description and in the claims of the present application are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used is interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the application are capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein. In addition, "and/or" in the specification and claims means at least one of connected objects, a character "/" generally means that a preceding and succeeding related objects are in an "or" relationship.

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

In the description of the embodiments of the present application, unless otherwise specified, "a plurality" means two or more, for example, a plurality of icons means two or more icons, and the like.

The embodiment of the application provides an icon display control method and device and electronic equipment, and the method and device can receive first input of a first combined icon and a target icon, wherein the first combined icon is an icon formed by combining M sub-icons, the target icon is an application icon or an icon formed by combining N sub-icons, and M and N are integers larger than 1; and in response to the first input, canceling the display of the first combined icon and the target icon, and displaying a second combined icon, wherein the second combined icon is an icon formed by combining the M sub-icons and the one application icon, or an icon formed by combining the M sub-icons and the N sub-icons. Wherein each sub-icon is used to indicate an application. By the scheme, if a user wants to group the M sub-icons and the target icon included in the first combined icon into one group, the user can trigger the display of the second combined icon including the M sub-icons and the target icon through one input of the first combined icon and the target icon, namely, the combination of the first combined icon and the target icon is realized, so that the M sub-icons and the target icon are grouped into one group, and the user does not need to frequently trigger the application icons in one group to be dragged into another group one by one. Thus, the efficiency of grouping the corresponding icons is improved.

The icon display control method, the icon display control device, and the electronic device provided in the embodiments of the present application are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings through specific embodiments and application scenarios thereof.

As shown in fig. 1, an embodiment of the present application provides an icon display control method, which includes the following steps S101 and S102.

S101, the icon display control device receives first input of the first combined icon and the target icon.

The first combined icon is an icon combined by M sub-icons, the target icon is an application icon or an icon combined by N sub-icons, and M and N are integers greater than 1.

It should be noted that in the embodiments of the present application, the icon of the application may be simply referred to as an application icon, and in the following embodiments, the application icon is collectively described as the application icon, which is used to replace the icon of the application.

In addition, in this embodiment of the application, the combined icon is an icon generated by combining a plurality of application icons, the combined icon includes a plurality of sub-icons, and one application icon in the plurality of application icons corresponds to one sub-icon in the plurality of sub-icons, that is, one sub-icon may be an icon obtained by reducing one application icon by a preset multiple, or may be a part of one application icon. The plurality of application icons may be the same or different in kind, and each of the plurality of application icons may be an icon of a system application or an icon of a third party application. In the embodiment of the present application, the manner of generating the combined icon in a combined manner is a grouping manner for a plurality of application icons.

Alternatively, the display size of the combination icon and the display size of the general application icon may be the same or different. Further, the display sizes of any two sub-icons of the plurality of sub-icons included in the combined icon may be the same or different.

Illustratively, assume that the display size of a normal application icon is s and the display size of one sub-icon is d. And when the display size of the first combined icon is the same as that of the common application icon and the display sizes of any two sub-icons in the M sub-icons included in the first combined icon are the same, d is 1/M s.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the first combined icon is a combined icon generated by combining M application icons, that is, the first combined icon includes M sub-icons, and one application icon of the M application icons corresponds to one sub-icon of the M sub-icons.

Optionally, the target icon is a combined icon generated by combining the N application icons. The target icon is an icon formed by combining N sub-icons, that is, the target icon includes N sub-icons, and one application icon of the N application icons corresponds to one sub-icon of the N sub-icons.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the first input may be a touch input, a gesture input, a voice input, or the like for the first combined icon and the target icon. For example, the touch input is an input of dragging the target icon to the first combined icon.

S102, the icon display control device responds to the first input, cancels the display of the first combined icon and the target icon, and displays a second combined icon.

The second combined icon is an icon formed by combining M sub-icons and an application icon, or an icon formed by combining M sub-icons and N sub-icons. Each sub-icon is used to indicate an application.

Optionally, the S102 may specifically be: the icon display control means generates a second combined icon in response to the first input, displays the second combined icon, and cancels display of the first combined icon and the target icon

Specifically, the above S102 may include two possible implementation manners:

in one possible implementation, the icon display control means cancels the display of the first combined icon and the target icon in response to the first input, and displays the second combined icon at a display position of the first combined icon before the first input is received.

In another possible implementation, the icon display control means cancels display of the first combined icon and the target icon in response to the first input, and displays the second combined icon at a display position of the target icon before the first input is received.

Optionally, the second combined icon may include one icon page or a plurality of icon pages. Specifically, the following possibilities can be included:

in one possible case, where the second combined icon includes one icon page, the icon page displays a plurality of sub-icons.

In another possible case, in a case where the second combined icon includes a plurality of icon pages, one of the icon pages may display one sub-icon, and other icon pages than the one icon page among the icon pages may respectively display a plurality of sub-icons.

In another possible case, in a case where the second combined icon includes a plurality of icon pages, each of the plurality of icon pages may display a plurality of sub-icons, respectively.

Optionally, the second combined icon may include K icon pages, each icon page displaying P sub-icons, K and P being integers greater than 1, and M + N > P. S102 may be specifically implemented by S102A described below.

S102A, the icon display control device responds to the first input, and respectively displays P sub-icons on (K-1) icon pages of the K icon pages, and displays M + N- (K-1) × P sub-icons on one icon page of the K icon pages except the (K-1) icon pages, and displays K page identifiers corresponding to the K icon pages.

Optionally, in an embodiment of the present application, M + N- (K-1) × P is less than or equal to P.

Optionally, when the second combined icon includes K icon pages, the K icon pages correspond to K paging identifiers, that is, one icon page corresponds to one paging identifier.

Optionally, the S102A may specifically be: the icon display control device responds to the first input, displays a first icon page of the K icon pages of the second combined icon, and displays K paging identifications corresponding to the K icon pages. Wherein (K-1) icon pages in the K icon pages respectively display P sub-icons, and one icon page except the (K-1) icon pages in the K icon pages displays M + N- (K-1) × P sub-icons. It should be noted that the first icon page may be any one of the K icon pages, so that the first icon page may display P sub-icons or M + N- (K-1) × P sub-icons.

Optionally, the second combined icon includes K icon pages. After S102A, the icon display control method provided in the embodiment of the present application may further include: and receiving input of a user, and responding to the input to sequentially display each icon page in the K icon pages.

It can be understood that, since the second combined icon includes K icon pages, and each icon page can display a plurality of sub-icons, the user can select, as needed, an application program that triggers the sub-icon indication included in one of the K icon pages.

It should be noted that, in the case of displaying the combined icon, it means that a plurality of sub-icons included in the combined icon are displayed, and therefore, a user can directly perform a touch operation on the plurality of sub-icons.

For example, the target icon is an independent application icon, and the icon display control device is a mobile phone. As shown in fig. 2 (a), a combination icon 01, an application icon E, and an application icon F are displayed in the interface of the mobile phone. The combined icon 01 includes a sub-icon a, a sub-icon B, a sub-icon C, and a sub-icon D. If the user wants to scratch application icon E into a grouping of composite icons 01, the user can drag the application icon E (i.e., the target icon) to the composite icon 01 (i.e., the first composite icon). After the mobile phone receives an input that the user drags the application icon E to the combined icon 01, in response to the dragging input, as shown in fig. 2 (b), the mobile phone generates and displays a combined icon 02, i.e., a second combined icon, and displays two page identifiers 03. The combined icon 02 includes a sub-icon a, a sub-icon B, a sub-icon C, a sub-icon D, and a sub-icon D of the application icon E, and each paging indicator may indicate an icon page of the combined icon 02.

For example, the target icon is taken as a combined icon, and the icon display control device is taken as a mobile phone. As shown in fig. 3 (a), a combination icon 01 and a combination icon 04 are displayed on the interface of the mobile phone. The combined icon 01 comprises a sub-icon A, a sub-icon B, a sub-icon C and a sub-icon D, and the combined icon 04 comprises a sub-icon E and a sub-icon F. If the user wants to scratch the app icon in the combined icon 01 and the app icon in the combined icon 04 into one group, the user can drag the combined icon 04 (i.e., the target icon) to the combined icon 01 (i.e., the first combined icon). After the mobile phone receives an input that the user drags the combined icon 04 to the combined icon 01, in response to the drag input, as shown in (b) of fig. 3, the mobile phone generates and displays a combined icon 05, i.e., a second combined icon, and displays two page identifiers 06. The combined icon 05 includes a sub-icon a, a sub-icon B, a sub-icon C, a sub-icon D, a sub-icon E, and a sub-icon F, and each paging indicator may indicate an icon page of the combined icon 05. As shown in fig. 3 (B), the mobile phone displays one icon page of the combined icon 05, which displays sub-icon a, sub-icon B, sub-icon C, and sub-icon D, and if the user wants to view another icon page of the combined icon 05, the user can slide the combined icon 05. After the mobile phone receives the slide input, in response to the slide input, as shown in (c) in fig. 3, the mobile phone displays another icon page 07 of the combined icon 05, the other icon page 07 being displayed with the sub-icon E and the sub-icon F.

The embodiment of the application provides an icon display control method, if a user wants to group M sub-icons and a target icon included in a first combined icon into a group, the user can trigger and display a second combined icon including the M sub-icons and the target icon through one input of the first combined icon and the target icon, namely, the first combined icon and the target icon are combined to group the M sub-icons and the target icon into a group, and the user does not need to frequently trigger to drag application icons in one group into another group one by one. Thus, the efficiency of grouping the corresponding icons is improved.

Optionally, after displaying the second combined icon, if the application program indicated by one sub-icon included in the second combined icon receives a message, the user is prompted by changing the display mode of the one sub-icon. Exemplarily, with reference to fig. 1, as shown in fig. 4, after the above S102, the icon display control method provided in the embodiment of the present application may further include the following S103.

S103, when the first application receives the target message, the icon display control device updates the display mode of the first sub-icon of the M + N sub-icons to the first display mode, and updates the display modes of the other sub-icons except the first sub-icon of the M + N sub-icons to the second display mode.

The first application program is indicated by the first sub-icon.

Alternatively, the first application program may be a communication application program or other types of application programs. The target message may be a chat message or a notification message. It is understood that, in the case that the target message is a chat message, the first application is a communication application; in the case where the target message is a notification message, the first application is any type of application.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, a display manner of the first sub-icon may include at least one of the following: display position, display size, display shape, display color, display identification, and the like. For example, the first sub-icon is displayed in red, is displayed in a rectangular shape, and is indicated by "a".

Optionally, before the first application receives the target message, the display manners of the M + N sub-icons may be the same or different, which is determined specifically according to the actual situation, and this is not limited in this embodiment of the application. In addition, in this embodiment of the application, the first display mode and the second display mode are different, and for the first display mode and the second display mode, reference may be made to the description of the display mode of the first sub-icon in the foregoing embodiment, and details are not described here again.

It should be noted that, in the above embodiment, the display mode of the received target message update sub-icon is taken as an example, and this embodiment of the present application may also provide another implementation mode: and updating the display mode of each sub-icon according to the use parameters of the application program indicated by each sub-icon, wherein the use parameters can comprise use frequency, click frequency and use duration. In this way, since the use parameters of the application program indicated by each sub-icon are different, the display mode of each sub-icon is different.

Exemplarily, the icon display control device is taken as a mobile phone. As shown in fig. 5 (a), a combined icon 05 is displayed in the interface of the mobile phone, where the combined icon 05 includes two icon pages, and one of the two icon pages displays a sub-icon a, a sub-icon B, a sub-icon C, and a sub-icon D. Wherein the display size of each sub-icon is the same, and the display size of each sub-icon is 1/4 of the display size of the combined icon 05. If application a indicated by sub-icon a receives a new message, the handset may update the display size of sub-icon a in combined icon 05 to 1/2 of the display size of combined icon 05 and update the display sizes of sub-icon B, sub-icon C, and sub-icon D to 1/6 of the display size of combined icon 03, respectively, as shown in (B) of fig. 5. In this way, the user can know that the application a indicated by the sub-icon a receives a new message according to the enlargement of the display size of the sub-icon a.

According to the icon display control method provided by the embodiment of the application, when the first application program indicated by the first sub-icon in the M + N sub-icons receives the target message, the display mode of the first sub-icon can be updated to the first display mode, and the display modes of other sub-icons except the first sub-icon in the M + N sub-icons are updated to the second display mode, so that the user is reminded of receiving the message by the change of the display modes, and the user can conveniently distinguish which application program indicated by the sub-icon receives the message.

Optionally, after the user triggers and displays the target message of the first application program, that is, the target message is a read message, so that the display mode of the first sub-icon corresponding to the first application program can be controlled to be restored to the initial display mode. For example, with reference to fig. 4, as shown in fig. 6, after S103, the icon display control method provided in the embodiment of the present application may further include S104.

And S104, under the condition that the target message is the read message, the icon display control device updates the display mode of the first sub-icon to the third display mode and updates the display modes of other sub-icons to the fourth display mode.

And the third display mode is the display mode of the first sub-icon before the target message is received. The fourth display mode is the display mode of other sub-icons before the target message is received.

Optionally, before the step S104, the icon display control method provided in the embodiment of the present application may further include: and receiving input of the first sub-icon, and responding to the input to display the target message of the first application program indicated by the first sub-icon.

Optionally, the third display mode and the fourth display mode may be the same or different. For the third display mode and the fourth display mode, reference may be made to the description of the display mode of the first sub-icon in the foregoing embodiment, and details are not described here.

For example, the icon display control device is taken as a mobile phone. As shown in fig. 5 (B), a combined icon 05 is displayed in the interface of the mobile phone, where the combined icon 05 includes two icon pages, and one of the two icon pages displays a sub-icon a, a sub-icon B, a sub-icon C, and a sub-icon D. Since the display size of sub-icon a is 1/2 of the display size of combined icon 05 and the display sizes of sub-icon B, sub-icon C, and sub-icon D are 1/6 of the display size of combined icon 05, the user can determine that application a indicated by sub-icon a receives a new message, and the user can trigger application a to display the new message. In this way, in the case where the new message is a read message, as shown in fig. 5 (a), the mobile phone can update the display size of the sub icon a to 1/4 of the display size of the combined icon 05, and update the display sizes of the sub icon B, the sub icon C, and the sub icon D to 1/4 of the display size of the combined icon 05, respectively. I.e. each sub-icon is restored to the original display mode.

According to the icon display control method provided by the embodiment of the application, when the target message is a read message, the display mode of the first sub-icon can be updated to the display mode before the target message is received, and the display modes of other sub-icons are updated to the display modes before the target message is received, that is, the first sub-icon and other sub-icons are restored to the initial display state, so that a user can know that a new message is not received currently.

Optionally, with reference to fig. 1, as shown in fig. 7, before the foregoing S101, the icon display control method provided in the embodiment of the present application may further include the following S105 and S106.

And S105, the icon display control device receives second input of the first application icon and the second application icon.

Optionally, the number of the first application icon and the second application icon may be one or more. When the number of the first application icons and the number of the second application icons are both multiple, the number of the first application icons and the number of the second application icons may be the same or different. The method can be determined according to actual conditions, and is not limited in the embodiment of the application.

Illustratively, the number of the first application icons is one, and the number of the second application icons is multiple; the number of the first application icons is multiple, and the number of the second application icons is one; the number of the first application icons is multiple, and the number of the second application icons is multiple.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the first application program corresponding to the first application icon and the second application program corresponding to the second application icon may be the same type of application program or different types of application programs. Specifically, the embodiments of the present application are not limited to this, as determined by practical circumstances.

Optionally, in a case where the target interface displays the first application icon and the second application icon, the target interface also displays other application icons except for the first application icon and the second application icon. The target interface may be a desktop interface or other possible interfaces.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the first input may be a touch input, a gesture input, a voice input, or the like for the first application icon and the second application icon. For example, the touch input is an input of dragging a first application icon to a second application icon.

S106, the icon display control device responds to the second input, cancels the display of the first application icon and the second application icon, and generates and displays a first combined icon.

The M sub-icons comprise sub-icons of the first application icon and sub-icons of the second application icon.

Specifically, the above S106 may include two possible implementation manners:

in one possible implementation, the icon display control means generates a first combined icon in response to the second input and cancels display of the first application icon and the second application icon, and displays the first combined icon at a display position of the first application icon before the second input is received.

In another possible implementation, the icon display control means generates a first combined icon in response to the second input and cancels display of the first application icon and the second application icon, and displays the first combined icon at a display position of the second application icon before the second input is received.

Optionally, in a case that the second input is a touch input, the display position of the first combined icon is related to a touch sequence of the first application icon and the second application icon.

Exemplarily, it is assumed that the second input is a drag input. If the dragging input is the input of dragging the first application icon to the second application icon, displaying the first combined icon at the display position of the second application icon; and if the dragging input is the input of dragging the second application icon to the first application icon, displaying the first combined icon at the display position of the first application icon. That is, when the second input is the touch input, the first combined icon is displayed at the display position where the object finally touched by the touch input is located.

Optionally, the first combined icon may include one icon page or a plurality of icon pages. Specifically, reference may be made to the description in the above embodiments, which are not repeated herein.

For example, the icon display control device is taken as a mobile phone. As shown in fig. 8 (a), an application icon a, an application icon B, an application icon C, and an application icon D are displayed in the interface of the mobile phone. If the user wants to group application icon a and application icon B into one group, the user may drag the application icon B to the application icon a. After the mobile phone receives an input that the user drags the application icon B to the application icon a, in response to the dragging input, as shown in (B) of fig. 8, the mobile phone generates and displays a combined icon 08, i.e., a first combined icon, where the combined icon 08 includes a sub-icon a of the application icon a and a sub-icon B of the application icon B. In this way, the user can drag the application icon C and the application icon D to the combined icon 08 respectively by referring to the above operation process, so that as shown in (C) in fig. 8, the mobile phone can generate and display the combined icon 08, where the combined icon 08 includes the sub-icon a of the application icon a, the sub-icon B of the application icon B, the sub-icon C of the application icon C, and the sub-icon D of the application icon D.

According to the icon display control method provided by the embodiment of the application, a user can trigger generation and display of the first combined icon and cancel display of the first application icon and the second application icon through input of the first application icon and the second application icon. Thus, referring to the above process, the user may trigger the plurality of independent application icons to generate the combined icon, i.e., group the plurality of independent application icons.

Optionally, after displaying the second combined icon, the user may trigger opening the application as desired. After S102, the icon display control method provided in the embodiment of the present application may further include S107 and S108 described below.

And S107, the icon display control device receives a third input of the second combined icon.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the third input may be a touch input, a gesture input, a voice input, or the like for the second sub-icon. For example, the touch input is a click input of the second sub-icon.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present application, each sub-icon in the M + N sub-icons indicates one application program, so that a user can trigger and display an interface of an application program indicated by one sub-icon through input to one sub-icon.

And S108, the icon display control device responds to the third input and displays the interface of the application program indicated by the second sub-icon in the second combined icon.

Optionally, in a case that the second combined icon includes one icon page, M + N sub-icons are displayed on the one icon page, that is, the second sub-icon is a sub-icon displayed on the one icon page. In the case where the second combined icon includes a plurality of icon pages, M + N sub-icons are displayed on the plurality of icon pages, that is, the second sub-icon is a sub-icon displayed on a target icon page among the plurality of icon pages.

It should be noted that, in the case of displaying the target icon page of the second combined icon, the second sub-icon is displayed in the target icon page, that is, S107 and S108 may be directly executed; in the case of displaying other icon pages in the second combined icon except for the target icon page, before executing the above S107, the icon display control method provided in the embodiment of the present application may further include: receiving an input for a second combined icon, in response to which a target icon page of the second combined icon is displayed with a second sub-icon, and then S107 and S108 may be performed.

Optionally, the interface of the application indicated by the second sub-icon may be a preset interface or any interface of the application. For example, the interface of the application program indicated by the second sub-icon is the main interface of the application program.

For example, the icon display control device is taken as a mobile phone. As shown in fig. 9 (a), a combined icon 05 is displayed in the interface of the mobile phone, where the combined icon 05 includes two icon pages, and one of the two icon pages displays a sub-icon a, a sub-icon B, a sub-icon C, and a sub-icon D. If the user wants to use the application program D indicated by the sub-icon D, the user can click on the sub-icon D (i.e., the second sub-icon) in the combined icon 05. After the mobile phone receives the click input of the user, in response to the click input, the application D indicated by the sub-icon D is executed, and as shown in (b) in fig. 9, the mobile phone displays the interface 10 (i.e., the interface of the application D), so that the user can operate on the interface of the application D according to the use requirement.

According to the icon control method provided by the embodiment of the application, under the condition that the second combined icon is displayed, because the second combined icon includes M + N sub-icons, if a user wants to use an application program indicated by the second sub-icon in the M + N sub-icons, the user can directly trigger an interface of the application program indicated by the second sub-icon in the second combined icon through inputting the second combined icon, and the user does not need to trigger the folder and display the application icon in the folder first and then trigger the application program indicated by the application icon that the user wants to use. Therefore, the application program indicated by any sub icon in the combined application icon can be started quickly.

In the icon display control method provided in the embodiment of the present application, the execution main body may be an icon display control device, or a control module in the icon display control device for executing the icon display control method. In the embodiment of the present application, an icon display control method executed by an icon display control device is taken as an example, and the icon display control device provided in the embodiment of the present application is described.

As shown in fig. 10, an embodiment of the present application provides an icon display control apparatus 200, which may include a receiving module 201 and a display module 202. The receiving module 201 may be configured to receive a first input of a first combined icon and a target icon, where the first combined icon is an icon combined by M sub-icons, the target icon is an application icon or an icon combined by N sub-icons, and M and N are integers greater than 1. The display module 202 may be configured to cancel displaying the first combined icon and the target icon and display a second combined icon in response to the first input received by the receiving module 201, where the second combined icon is an icon combined by the M sub-icons and the one application icon or an icon combined by the M sub-icons and the N sub-icons. Wherein each sub-icon is used to indicate an application.

Optionally, the second combined icon includes K icon pages, each icon page displays P sub-icons, K and P are integers greater than 1, and M + N > P. The display module 202 may be specifically configured to display P sub-icons on (K-1) icon pages of the K icon pages, and display M + N- (K-1) × P sub-icons on one icon page of the K icon pages except the (K-1) icon pages, and display K page identifiers corresponding to the K icon pages.

Optionally, the display module 202 may be further configured to update a display manner of a first sub icon of the M + N sub icons to the first display manner and update display manners of other sub icons except the first sub icon of the M + N sub icons to the second display manner after the second combined icon is displayed and the first application program receives the target message. The first application program is the application program indicated by the first sub-icon.

Optionally, the display module 202 may be further configured to update the display mode of the first sub-icon to the third display mode and update the display modes of the other sub-icons to the fourth display mode when the target message is a read message. The third display mode is the display mode of the first sub-icon before the target message is received, and the fourth display mode is the display mode of the other sub-icons before the target message is received.

Optionally, in conjunction with fig. 10, as shown in fig. 11, the icon display control apparatus may further include a processing module 203. The receiving module 201 may be further configured to receive a second input for the first application icon and the second application icon before receiving the first input for the first combination icon and the target icon. The processing module 203 may be configured to generate the first combined icon in response to the second input received by the receiving module 201. The display module 202 may be further configured to cancel displaying the first application icon and the second application icon and display the first combined icon after the processing module 203 generates the first combined icon. The M sub-icons comprise sub-icons of the first application icon and sub-icons of the second application icon.

Optionally, the receiving module 201 may be further configured to receive a third input to the second combined icon after the displaying module displays the second combined icon. The display module 202 may be further configured to display an interface of the application program indicated by the second sub-icon in the second combined icon in response to the third input received by the receiving module 201.

The embodiment of the application provides an icon display control device, if a user wants to classify M sub-icons included in a first combined icon and a target icon into one group, the user can trigger the icon display control device to display a second combined icon including the M sub-icons and the target icon through one input of the first combined icon and the target icon, namely, the first combined icon and the target icon are combined to classify the M sub-icons and the target icon into one group, and the user does not need to frequently trigger to drag application icons in one group into another group one by one. Thus, the efficiency of grouping the corresponding icons is improved.

The icon display control device in the embodiment of the present application may be a device, or may be a component, an integrated circuit, or a chip in a terminal. The device can be mobile electronic equipment or non-mobile electronic equipment. Illustratively, the mobile electronic device may be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palm top computer, a vehicle-mounted electronic device, a wearable device, an ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC), a netbook or a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), and the like, and the non-mobile electronic device may be a server, a Network Attached Storage (NAS), a Personal Computer (PC), a Television (TV), a teller machine or a self-service machine, and the like, and the embodiment of the present application is not particularly limited.

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

The icon display control device provided in the embodiment of the present application can implement each process implemented by the method embodiments of fig. 1 to 9, and is not described here again to avoid repetition.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 12, an electronic device 300 is further provided in this embodiment of the present application, and includes a processor 301, a memory 302, and a program or an instruction stored in the memory 302 and executable on the processor 301, where the program or the instruction is executed by the processor 301 to implement the processes of the embodiment of the icon display control method, and can achieve the same technical effects, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

It should be noted that the electronic devices in the embodiments of the present application include the mobile electronic devices and the non-mobile electronic devices described above.

Fig. 13 is a schematic hardware structure diagram of an electronic device implementing an embodiment of the present application.

The electronic device 400 includes, but is not limited to: radio unit 401, network module 402, audio output unit 403, input unit 404, sensor 405, display unit 406, user input unit 407, interface unit 408, memory 409, and processor 410.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the electronic device 400 may further include a power source (e.g., a battery) for supplying power to various components, and the power source may be logically connected to the processor 410 through a power management system, so as to implement functions of managing charging, discharging, and power consumption through the power management system. The electronic device structure shown in fig. 13 does not constitute a limitation of the electronic device, and the electronic device may include more or less components than those shown, or combine some components, or arrange different components, and thus, the description is omitted here.

The user input unit 407 is configured to receive a first input to a first combined icon and a target icon, where the first combined icon is an icon combined by M sub-icons, the target icon is an application icon or an icon combined by N sub-icons, and M and N are integers greater than 1. A display unit 406, configured to cancel displaying the first combined icon and the target icon and display a second combined icon in response to the first input received by the user input unit 407, where the second combined icon is an icon combined by the M sub-icons and the one application icon or an icon combined by the M sub-icons and the N sub-icons. Wherein each sub-icon is used to indicate an application.

Optionally, the second combined icon includes K icon pages, each icon page displays P sub-icons, K and P are integers greater than 1, and M + N > P. The display unit 406 is specifically configured to display P sub-icons on (K-1) icon pages of the K icon pages, and display M + N- (K-1) × P sub-icons on one icon page of the K icon pages except the (K-1) icon pages, and display K page identifiers corresponding to the K icon pages.

Optionally, the processor 410 is further configured to update a display manner of a first sub icon of the M + N sub icons to the first display manner and update display manners of other sub icons of the M + N sub icons except the first sub icon to the second display manner when the first application program receives the target message after the second combined icon is displayed. The first application program is the application program indicated by the first sub-icon.

Optionally, the processor 410 is further configured to update the display manner of the first sub-icon to the third display manner and update the display manners of the other sub-icons to the fourth display manner when the target message is a read message. The third display mode is the display mode of the first sub-icon before the target message is received, and the fourth display mode is the display mode of the other sub-icons before the target message is received.

Optionally, the user input unit 407 is further configured to receive a second input to the first application icon and the second application icon before receiving the first input to the first combination icon and the target icon. A processor 410 for generating the first combined icon in response to the second input received by the user input unit 407. The display unit 406 is further configured to cancel displaying the first application icon and the second application icon and display the first combined icon after the processor 410 generates the first combined icon. The M sub-icons comprise sub-icons of the first application icon and sub-icons of the second application icon.

Optionally, the user input unit 407 is further configured to receive a third input to the second combined icon after the display unit 406 displays the second combined icon. The display unit 406 is further configured to display an interface of the application program indicated by the second sub-icon in the second combined icon in response to the third input received by the user input unit 407.

The embodiment of the application provides an electronic device, and if a user wants to group M sub-icons included in a first combined icon and a target icon into one group, the user can trigger the electronic device to display a second combined icon including the M sub-icons and the target icon through one input of the first combined icon and the target icon, namely, the first combined icon and the target icon are combined to group the M sub-icons and the target icon into one group, and the user does not need to frequently trigger application icons in one group to be dragged into another group one by one. Thus, the efficiency of grouping the corresponding icons is improved.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the input unit 404 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 4041 and a microphone 4042, and the graphics processor 4041 processes image data of a still picture or a video obtained by an image capturing device (such as a camera) in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The display unit 406 may include a display panel 4061, and the display panel 4061 may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light emitting diode, or the like. The user input unit 407 includes a touch panel 4071 and other input devices 4072. A touch panel 4071, also referred to as a touch screen. The touch panel 4071 may include two parts, a touch detection device and a touch controller. Other input devices 4072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (e.g., volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, and a joystick, which are not described in detail herein. The memory 409 may be used to store software programs as well as various data including, but not limited to, application programs and an operating system. The processor 410 may integrate an application processor, which primarily handles operating systems, user interfaces, applications, etc., and a modem processor, which primarily handles wireless communications. It will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into the processor 410.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a readable storage medium, where a program or an instruction is stored on the readable storage medium, and when the program or the instruction is executed by a processor, the program or the instruction implements each process of the embodiment of the icon display control method, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

The processor is the processor in the electronic device in the above embodiment. Readable storage media, including computer-readable storage media such as a computer-read-only memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic or optical disk, and so forth.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a chip, where the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is configured to execute a program or an instruction to implement each process of the embodiment of the icon display control method, and the same technical effect can be achieved.

It should be understood that the chips mentioned in the embodiments of the present application may also be referred to as system-on-chip, system-on-chip or system-on-chip, etc.

It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element. Further, it should be noted that the scope of the methods and apparatus of the embodiments of the present application is not limited to performing the functions in the order illustrated or discussed, but may include performing the functions in a substantially simultaneous manner or in a reverse order based on the functions involved, e.g., the methods described may be performed in an order different than that described, and various steps may be added, omitted, or combined. In addition, features described with reference to certain examples may be combined in other examples.

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

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

Claims

1. An icon display control method, characterized by comprising:

receiving a first input of a first combined icon and a target icon, wherein the first combined icon is an icon formed by combining M sub-icons, the target icon is an application icon or an icon formed by combining N sub-icons, and M and N are integers larger than 1;

in response to the first input, canceling the display of the first combined icon and the target icon, and displaying a second combined icon, which is an icon combined by the M sub-icons and the one application icon, or an icon combined by the M sub-icons and the N sub-icons;

wherein each sub-icon is used to indicate an application.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein after displaying the second combined icon, the method further comprises:

under the condition that a first application program receives a target message, updating the display mode of a first sub icon in M + N sub icons into a first display mode, and updating the display modes of other sub icons except the first sub icon in the M + N sub icons into a second display mode;

and the first application program is the application program indicated by the first sub-icon.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein after updating the display mode of the first sub-icon to the first display mode and updating the display modes of the other sub-icons to the second display mode, the method further comprises:

under the condition that the target message is a read message, updating the display mode of the first sub-icon to a third display mode, and updating the display modes of other sub-icons to a fourth display mode;

the third display mode is the display mode of the first sub-icon before the target message is received; and the fourth display mode is the display mode of the other sub-icons before the target message is received.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein prior to receiving the first input of the first combined icon and the target icon, the method further comprises:

receiving a second input to the first application icon and the second application icon;

canceling the display of the first application icon and the second application icon and generating and displaying the first combined icon in response to the second input;

wherein the M sub-icons include a sub-icon of the first application icon and a sub-icon of the second application icon.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein after displaying the second combined icon, the method further comprises:

receiving a third input to the second combined icon;

and responding to the third input, and displaying an interface of the application program indicated by the second sub-icon in the second combined icon.

6. The icon display control device is characterized by comprising a receiving module and a display module;

the receiving module is used for receiving a first input of a first combined icon and a target icon, wherein the first combined icon is an icon combined by M sub-icons, the target icon is an application icon or an icon combined by N sub-icons, and M and N are integers larger than 1;

the display module is configured to cancel displaying the first combined icon and the target icon and display a second combined icon in response to the first input received by the receiving module, where the second combined icon is an icon formed by combining the M sub-icons and the one application icon or an icon formed by combining the M sub-icons and the N sub-icons;

wherein each sub-icon is used to indicate an application.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the display module is further configured to update a display manner of a first sub icon of the M + N sub icons to a first display manner and update display manners of other sub icons of the M + N sub icons except the first sub icon to a second display manner when the first application receives the target message after the second combined icon is displayed;

8. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the display module is further configured to update the display mode of the first sub-icon to a third display mode and update the display modes of the other sub-icons to a fourth display mode when the target message is a read message;

9. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the icon display control means further comprises a processing module;

the receiving module is further configured to receive a second input for the first application icon and the second application icon before receiving the first input for the first combined icon and the target icon;

the processing module is used for responding to the second input received by the receiving module and generating the first combined icon;

the display module is further configured to cancel displaying the first application icon and the second application icon and display the first combination icon after the processing module generates the first combination icon;

10. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the receiving module is further configured to receive a third input to the second combined icon after the displaying module displays the second combined icon;

the display module is further configured to display an interface of an application program indicated by a second sub-icon in the second combined icon in response to the third input received by the receiving module.

11. An electronic device comprising a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the program or instructions when executed by the processor implementing the steps of the icon display control method according to any one of claims 1-5.

12. A readable storage medium, characterized in that a program or instructions are stored thereon, which when executed by a processor, implement the steps of the icon display control method according to any one of claims 1-5.