CN114942807A

CN114942807A - Application program switching method and device

Info

Publication number: CN114942807A
Application number: CN202210459359.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 陈广
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-04-27
Filing date: 2022-04-27
Publication date: 2022-08-26

Abstract

The application discloses an application program switching method and device, and belongs to the technical field of communication. The method comprises the following steps: in a case where a first application is running in the foreground, a first input is received. And under the condition that the first input is a first preset input, responding to the first input, controlling the first application to be switched to the background operation, and controlling the second application running in the background to be switched to the foreground operation. And under the condition that the first input is a second preset input, responding to the first input, and displaying a background application interface, wherein the background application interface comprises a task window of at least one background application, and the at least one background application comprises the first application. Under the condition that the first input is a third preset input, responding to the first input, and displaying a background application operation menu interface, wherein the background application operation menu interface comprises an application identifier of the first application; and after the first input is finished, controlling the first application to return to the foreground running.

Description

Application program switching method and device

Technical Field

The application belongs to the technical field of communication, and particularly relates to a method and a device for switching application programs.

Background

With the development of communication technology, electronic devices have become more powerful. For example, when the electronic device runs a certain application in the foreground, the electronic device may simultaneously run at least one application in the background, i.e., the at least one application running in the background may be referred to as a background application.

Generally, when a user needs to use a certain background application, the user may first trigger the electronic device to display a background application interface, where the background application interface includes at least one task window of the background application; then, the user can select a task window of the background application from the task windows of the at least one background application according to the requirement; so as to trigger the electronic equipment to switch the background application to the foreground for running.

However, in the process that the electronic device switches the full background application to the foreground operation, the user needs to trigger the electronic device switching interface for multiple times, so that the step of switching the background application to the foreground operation by the electronic device is complicated.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides an application switching method and device, and the method and device can solve the problem that the step of switching background application to foreground operation by electronic equipment is complex.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an application switching method, where the method includes: in a case where a first application is running in the foreground, a first input is received. And under the condition that the first input is a first preset input, responding to the first input, controlling the first application to be switched to the background operation, and controlling the second application running in the background to be switched to the foreground operation. And under the condition that the first input is a second preset input, responding to the first input, and displaying a background application interface, wherein the background application interface comprises a task window of at least one background application, and the at least one background application comprises the first application. Under the condition that the first input is a third preset input, responding to the first input, and displaying a background application operation menu interface, wherein the background application operation menu interface comprises an application identifier of the first application; and after finishing the first input, controlling the first application to be restored to the foreground running.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an application running apparatus, including: the device comprises a receiving module and a control module. The receiving module is used for receiving a first input under the condition that the first application is operated in the foreground. And the control module is used for responding to the first input received by the receiving module under the condition that the first input is a first preset input, controlling the first application to be switched to the background operation and controlling the second application running in the background to be switched to the foreground operation. The display module is used for responding to the first input received by the receiving module and displaying a background application interface under the condition that the first input is a second preset input, wherein the background application interface comprises a task window of at least one background application, and the at least one background application comprises the first application. Or the display module is configured to, in a case that the first input is a third preset input, respond to the first input received by the receiving module, display a background application operation menu interface, where the background application operation menu interface includes an application identifier of the first application. And the control module is used for controlling the first application to be restored to the foreground for running after the first input is finished.

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

In a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides 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 according to the first aspect.

In a sixth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a computer program product, stored on a storage medium, for execution by at least one processor to implement the method according to the first aspect.

In an embodiment of the application, a first input is received in a case where a foreground runs a first application. And under the condition that the first input is a first preset input, responding to the first input, controlling the first application to be switched to the background operation, and controlling the second application running in the background to be switched to the foreground operation. And under the condition that the first input is a second preset input, responding to the first input, and displaying a background application interface, wherein the background application interface comprises a task window of at least one background application, and the at least one background application comprises the first application. Under the condition that the first input is a third preset input, responding to the first input, and displaying a background application operation menu interface, wherein the background application operation menu interface comprises an application identifier of the first application; and after finishing the first input, controlling the first application to return to the foreground running. Through the scheme, when one application is operated by the foreground of the electronic equipment, if a user wants to use a certain background application, the user can directly trigger and control the application to be switched to the background operation through one input which accords with the first preset input, and control the background application to be switched to the foreground operation, so that the purpose of switching the background application meeting the user requirements to the foreground operation can be realized only through one input, and the user does not need to trigger the electronic equipment switching interface for many times. Therefore, the step of switching the background application to the foreground operation by the electronic equipment is simplified.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an application switching method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 2 is a schematic view of an interface for application foreground and background switching according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 3 is a second schematic interface diagram illustrating application of foreground and background switching according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 4 is a third schematic interface diagram for applying foreground and background switching according to the embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 5 is a fourth schematic interface diagram for applying foreground and background switching according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a switching device for an application according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

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

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

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

fig. 10 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 described clearly 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 that can be derived by one of ordinary skill in the art from the embodiments given herein are intended to be within the scope of the present disclosure.

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 will be appreciated that the data so used may be interchanged under appropriate circumstances such that embodiments of the application are capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein, and that the terms "first," "second," etc. are generally used in a generic sense and do not limit the number of terms, e.g., a first term can be one or more than one. 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 related art, two methods are generally used for switching between foreground and background applications, one method is: triggering and displaying a background application interface by sliding or clicking a background application button of a navigation bar on the bottom of a screen of the electronic equipment; the background application interface comprises at least one task window of the background application, so that one background application can be selected from the background application interface, and the background application is triggered to be switched to the foreground for running. In the process, an upward sliding gesture (or clicking a background application button of a navigation bar) needs to be completed to enter a background application list interface, at least one task window of the background application is slid left and right to find the background application to be switched, and the task window of the background application is clicked to complete application switching, so that the step of switching the background application to the foreground operation of the electronic equipment is complicated, the electronic equipment is not convenient and quick enough, and the operation is inconvenient to complete through a thumb and is easy to touch by mistake under the conditions that the screen of the electronic equipment is large and the electronic equipment is held by a single hand.

In another mode: under the condition that the electronic equipment displays the interface of foreground application, a user switches the latest application running in the background to the foreground running through a left-right sliding gesture. The method can be used for conveniently switching the latest application to foreground operation, but can not select the required background application to switch to the foreground operation.

Based on the above technical problem, an embodiment of the present application provides an application switching method, when an application runs on a foreground of an electronic device, if a user wants to use a certain background application, the user may directly trigger and control the application to switch to the background running through an input conforming to a first preset input, and control the background application to switch to the foreground running, so that the purpose of switching the background application meeting the user requirements to the foreground running can be achieved only through one input, and the user does not need to trigger a switching interface of the electronic device many times. Therefore, the step of switching the background application to the foreground operation by the electronic equipment is simplified.

The following describes in detail an application switching method and an application switching device provided in the embodiments of the present application with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As shown in fig. 1, the method for switching application programs according to the embodiment of the present application may include the following steps S101 and S102; alternatively, S101 and S103; still alternatively, S101 and S104. I.e., S102, S103 and S104 are performed alternatively.

S101, under the condition that a foreground runs a first application, the electronic equipment receives a first input.

Optionally, at least one application (also referred to as at least one application program) is installed on the electronic device, and the first application is any one of the at least one application.

Optionally, the first application may be a system application or a third-party application.

It is understood that, in the case that the first application is run in the foreground of the electronic device, one interface of the first application is displayed on the screen of the electronic device, and the one interface is any possible interface of the first application.

Optionally, the first input is a touch input of a touch object (e.g., a finger of a user, a stylus, or the like) on a screen of the electronic device. For example, the touch input is a sliding input of a touch object on a screen.

S102, under the condition that the first input is a first preset input, the electronic equipment responds to the first input, controls the first application to be switched to the background to run, and controls the second application running in the background to be switched to the foreground to run.

Optionally, the first preset input may be factory set or user-defined set.

Optionally, the first preset input may include any one of: and inputting a first preset gesture.

Illustratively, the first preset input is that after the finger slides up and down on the screen, the finger leaves the screen after continuing to slide up and down on the screen quickly.

Optionally, in a case that the first input is a first preset input, the second application is an application that satisfies a preset condition.

Optionally, the preset condition may include at least one of: the most recent usage time, the most frequent, associated with the first application, conforms to the user's portrait.

For example, the second application is an application that the user has recently used; for another example, the second application is an application recommended according to a user history usage record.

Optionally, the second application may be a system application or a third-party application.

Optionally, at least one background application is running in the background of the electronic device, and the second application is an application in the at least one background application.

Further, the second application may be determined according to the input parameter of the first input.

Optionally, the input parameters of the first input may include at least one of: input position information, input direction information, input trajectory information, and the like.

Illustratively, the application running device is taken as a mobile phone. The mobile phone runs the application A in the foreground, and if the user wants to use the application B running in the background, the finger of the user can slide upwards and then downwards on the screen, and then the finger continues to slide quickly on the screen and leaves the screen. After the mobile phone receives the sliding input, the mobile phone may control the application a to be switched to the background operation and control the application B to be switched to the foreground operation in response to the sliding input under the condition that the sliding input is the first preset input.

S103, under the condition that the first input is the second preset input, the electronic equipment responds to the first input and displays a background application interface.

The background application interface comprises a task window of at least one background application, and the at least one background application comprises a first application.

Optionally, the second preset input may be factory set or user-defined set.

Optionally, the second preset input may include any one of: and inputting a second preset control and inputting a second preset gesture.

Illustratively, the second preset input is an input that the user's finger leaves the screen after sliding the finger upward on the screen.

Optionally, the background application interface is an interface for displaying an application running in the background, and one task window is a visualization window of an application running in the background. For the detailed description of the background application interface and the task window, reference may be made to the detailed description in the following embodiments, which are not repeated herein.

Optionally, after S103, the method for switching the application program provided in the embodiment of the present application may further include: the electronic equipment receives input of a user on a task window of a target background application in task windows of at least one background application; in response to the input, the target background application is switched to the foreground for running. In this way, the interface of the target background application can be displayed in the foreground.

It will be appreciated that when a first application is running in the foreground, the interface for the first application is displayed. Further, in the case that the first input is the second preset input, in response to the first input, the interface of the first application is cancelled and a background application interface is displayed, and since the background application interface includes the task window of the first application, the first application is switched to the background running.

And S104, under the condition that the first input is a third preset input, the electronic equipment responds to the first input, displays a background application operation menu interface, and controls the first application to be recovered to the foreground for running after the first input is finished.

The background application operation menu interface comprises an application identifier of the first application.

Optionally, the third preset input may be factory set or user-defined set.

Optionally, the third preset input may include any one of: and inputting a third preset control and inputting a third preset gesture.

Illustratively, the third preset input is an input that the finger leaves the screen after the finger slides first upward and then downward on the screen. I.e. when the finger leaves the screen, it means that the first input is ended.

It will be appreciated that when a first application is running in the foreground, the interface for the first application is displayed. Further, in the case that the first input is a third preset input, in response to the first input, canceling the display of the interface of the first application and displaying a background application operation menu interface, where the background application operation menu interface includes an application identifier of the first application, and therefore switching the first application to a background operation is implied.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present application, when the first input is a first preset input, the first application may be triggered to be switched to the background operation, and the second application running in the background may be controlled to be switched to the foreground operation; or, under the condition that the first input is a second preset input, triggering and displaying a background application interface to switch the first application to background operation; or under the condition that the first input is a third preset input, triggering and displaying a background application operation menu interface so as to switch the first application to the background operation. This is done. The first input of different input modes can trigger the electronic equipment to execute different operations, and the application program can be controlled to perform foreground and background switching according to different modes.

The embodiment of the application provides an application switching method, when an application is operated in a foreground of an electronic device, if a user wants to use a certain background application, the user can directly trigger and control the application to be switched to the background operation through an input meeting a first preset input, and control the background application to be switched to the foreground operation, so that the purpose of switching the background application meeting the user requirements to the foreground operation can be achieved only through one-time input, and the user does not need to trigger the electronic device switching interface for many times. Therefore, the step of switching the background application to the foreground operation by the electronic equipment is simplified.

Optionally, the first input includes a first sub-input and a second sub-input; accordingly, S102 may be specifically realized by S102A to S102C described below.

S102A, the electronic device responds to the first sub-input and displays a background application operation menu interface.

The background application operation menu interface comprises at least one application identifier, and each application identifier in the at least one application identifier is used for indicating an application running in the background.

Optionally, the first sub-input and the second sub-input are two consecutive sub-inputs, that is, after the first sub-input is ended, the touch body does not leave the screen of the electronic device, and the second sub-input is continued.

Optionally, the first sub-input is a touch input of a touch object on a screen of the electronic device. For example, the touch input includes an input in which the touch body slides up and down on the screen.

Optionally, each of the at least one application identifier may include an application icon, an application name, and other possible identifiers.

Optionally, the at least one application identifier may be displayed at a target display position on the screen, where the target display position is close to the touch position of the touch object on the screen.

Illustratively, a one-handed operation is taken as an example on the screen of the electronic device. Displaying at least one application identifier in a right display area of a screen of the electronic device in the case that the first sub-input is an input operated by a left hand of the user; in case the first sub-input is an input operated by a right hand of the user, at least one application identification is displayed in a left side display area of a screen of the electronic device.

In the first example, an application running device is taken as a mobile phone. Under the condition that the mobile phone runs an application in the foreground, the fingers of the user slide upwards and input downwards on the screen. After the mobile phone receives the sliding input, the mobile phone may display a background application operation menu interface 01 in response to the sliding input, as shown in fig. 2, where the background application operation menu interface 01 includes an application identifier 02 and other application identifiers.

S102, 102B, the electronic device responds to the second sub-input of the target application identification in the at least one application identification, and selects the target application identification.

And the target application identifier is an application identifier of the second application.

Optionally, the second sub-input is an input that a user triggers to select the target application identifier.

Optionally, the target application identifier is determined according to the input parameters of the second sub-input. Specifically, reference may be made to the following detailed description in the embodiments, which are not repeated herein.

Alternatively, the input parameters of the second sub-input may include input position information, input direction information, input step information, and other parameters.

For example, in the case that the input parameters of the second sub-input include input direction information and input step information, the target application identification is selected according to the input direction information and the input step information.

It should be noted that different input parameters may be different application identifiers selected from the at least one application identifier. Therefore, the user can trigger the selected target application identifier as required actually.

Optionally, the background application operation menu interface may further include a pointer control; the above S102B may be specifically realized by the following S102B1 and S102B 2.

And S102B1, responding to the second sub-input by the electronic equipment, and controlling the pointer control to point to the target application identification according to the input parameters of the second sub-input.

Optionally, the pointer control may be displayed in a left display area or a right display area of the display area where the at least one application identifier is located.

Optionally, the second sub-input is a touch input of a touch object on a screen of the electronic device. For example, the touch input is an input in which a touch object slides down on a screen.

Alternatively, the input parameters of the second sub-input may include input direction, input step size, input speed, and other possible input parameters.

Exemplarily, the input parameters of the second sub-input include an input direction and an input step. After receiving the second sub-input, determining an input direction and an input step size of the second sub-input; further, since there is a mapping relationship between the input step size and the moving distance of the pointer control, the input step size can be converted into a moving distance, so that the pointer can be controlled to move the moving distance according to the input direction, so that the pointer control points from one application identification to another application identification.

Of course, if the second sub-input comprises a first sub-input, the above embodiment needs to be performed once, and the one-time control pointer control is triggered to point to the target application identifier; if the second sub-input comprises multiple sub-inputs, then the above-described embodiment needs to be repeated multiple times to trigger the pointer control to point to the target application identification.

Optionally, the pointer control at the initial display position may first point to one of the at least one application identifier by default. Further, if the one application id is the target application id, the above S102B1 is not required to be executed; alternatively, if the one application id is a non-target application id, the pointer control is made to point to the target application id by executing the above S102B 1.

S102B2, after the duration that the pointer control points to the target application identification reaches the preset duration, the electronic device selects the target application identification.

Optionally, the preset duration may be set in factory or user-defined. Of course, if the preset duration of the default setting does not meet the user requirement, the user may trigger to modify the preset duration. For example, the preset time period is 200 milliseconds (ms).

Example two, in conjunction with the above example one, as shown in fig. 2, the background application operation menu interface further includes a pointer control 03. Assuming that the pointer control 03 initially points to the application identity 02, if the user wants to select application identity 04, the user's finger can continue to slide up the screen. After the mobile phone receives an upward sliding input, in response to the sliding input, according to an input direction and an input step length of the sliding input, controlling the pointer control 03 to move upward by a distance corresponding to the input step length to point to the application identifier 04; next, after the pointer control 03 points to the application identifier 04 for 200 milliseconds, the application identifier 04 may be selected.

It can be understood that, since the pointer control can be controlled to point to the target application identifier according to the input parameter of the second sub-input in response to the second sub-input, the user can trigger the electronic device to control the pointer control to point to any application identifier as required; furthermore, the application identifier is triggered to be selected only after the duration that the pointer control points to the application identifier reaches the preset duration, so that other application identifiers can be prevented from being selected by mistake in the moving process of the pointer control, and the buffering time for user operation and thinking is also given.

Optionally, after the above S102B or S102B2, the method for switching the application program provided in the embodiment of the present application may further include the following S105.

And S105, the electronic equipment displays the task window of the second application.

Optionally, the task window is a window displaying an interface of the second application. Further, the user can trigger and control the second application to switch to the foreground operation through the input of the task window of the second application.

Optionally, for the "displaying the task window of the second application" in S105, two possible implementations may be specifically described as follows:

(1) and displaying the task window of the second application in a floating mode.

(2) And displaying the task window of the second application in a background application operation menu interface in an overlapping manner.

In a third example, in combination with the second example, after the application identifier 04 is selected, as shown in fig. 3, the mobile phone operates the menu interface 01 to display a window 05, that is, a task window of the second application, in the background.

It will be appreciated that after the task window for the second application is displayed, the task window may prompt the user that the target application identification has been selected and assist the user in confirming whether the second application is an application that the user desires to use.

And S102C, after finishing the second sub-input, the electronic device controls the first application to be switched to the background running and controls the second application to be switched to the foreground running.

Optionally, the ending second sub-input may specifically include the following 3 possible implementation manners:

(1) the touch body leaves the screen of the electronic equipment.

(2) And the touch body clicks the screen of the electronic equipment for a preset number of times.

(3) And clicking a preset control by the touch body, wherein the preset control is used for finishing the second sub-input.

In the application embodiment, when the first input includes a first sub-input and a second sub-input, the background application operation menu interface may be triggered and displayed through the first sub-input, and a target application identifier selected from at least one application identifier included in the background application operation menu interface is triggered through the second sub-input, so that after the second sub-input is finished, the first application may be controlled to be switched to a background operation, and the second application may be controlled to be switched to a foreground operation. Therefore, after a user can trigger and display a background application menu interface through one sub-input, the user can trigger and select the required background application through another sub-input, and trigger the background application to be switched to the foreground for operation.

Optionally, the first input includes a first sub-input and a third sub-input. The above S102 may include S106 and S107. That is, after S101 described above, S102 described above may be executed, or S106 and S107 described above may be executed.

S106, the electronic equipment responds to the first sub-input and displays a background application operation menu interface.

The background application operation menu interface comprises at least one application identifier and a first control, wherein each application identifier in the at least one application identifier is used for indicating one application running in the background.

Optionally, the first sub-input and the third sub-input are two consecutive sub-inputs, that is, after the first sub-input is ended, the touch body does not leave the screen of the electronic device, and the third sub-input is continued.

Optionally, the first control may be a control displayed at a first preset position of a background application operation menu interface; the display shape of the first control can be a circle, an ellipse or other possible shapes; the display color of the first control may be red, green, or other possible colors. The method is determined according to actual use conditions, and the method is not limited in the embodiment of the application.

Optionally, the background application operation menu interface may further include a pointer control.

S107, the electronic equipment responds to the third sub-input of the first control, and updates and displays the application identifier in the at least one application identifier.

Optionally, the third sub-input is a touch input of the touch object on the screen of the electronic device after the first sub-input is ended.

For example, the touch input is a finger sliding on the screen to trigger selection of the first control.

Optionally, the updating and displaying the application identifier in the at least one application identifier in S107 may specifically include the following 2 possible cases:

(1) and updating and displaying part of the at least one application identifier.

(2) And updating and displaying all application identifications in the at least one application identification.

Taking the application running device as a mobile phone as an example. Under the condition that the mobile phone runs an application in the foreground, the fingers of the user slide upwards and input downwards on the screen. After the mobile phone receives the sliding input, the mobile phone may display a background application operation menu interface 06 in response to the sliding input, as shown in fig. 4 (a), where the background application operation menu interface 06 includes at least one application identifier and a control 07 (i.e., a first control); the user may then continue clicking on control 07. After the cell phone receives the click input, the cell phone may update and display an application identifier 08 of the at least one application identifier as an application identifier 09 as shown in (b) of fig. 4 in response to the click input. In this way, the application identifier in the background application operation menu interface 06 is updated, so that the display position of the application identifier changes.

It should be noted that, after triggering to update the application identifier in the at least one application identifier, if the application identifier of the background application that the user wants to use appears in the visible range, the touch control body may be away from the first control, and continue to trigger to select the application identifier of the desired background application.

In the embodiment of the application, the background application operation menu interface can be triggered and displayed through the first sub-input, and the application identifier in the at least one application identifier is triggered and updated and displayed through the third sub-input, so that when the at least one application identifier in the background application operation menu interface does not meet the user requirement, the user can trigger and update the application identifier in the at least one application identifier, so that the application identifier of the background application required by the user appears in a visual range, and the user can subsequently select the application identifier of the background application which is desired to be used.

Optionally, the first input includes a first sub-input and a fourth sub-input; the above S102 may include S108 and S109. That is, after S101 described above, S102 described above may be executed, or S108 and S109 described above may be executed.

And S108, the electronic equipment responds to the first sub-input and displays a background application operation menu interface.

The background application operation menu interface comprises a second control.

Optionally, the first sub-input and the fourth sub-input are two consecutive sub-inputs, that is, after the first sub-input is ended, the touch body does not leave the screen of the electronic device, and the fourth sub-input is continued.

Optionally, the second control may be a control displayed at a second preset position of the background application operation menu interface; the display shape of the second control can be a circle, an ellipse or other possible shapes; the display color of the second control may be red, green, or other possible colors. The method is determined according to actual use conditions, and the method is not limited in the embodiment of the application.

And S109, the electronic equipment responds to the fourth sub-input of the second control and displays a background application interface.

The background application interface comprises at least one task window of the background application.

Optionally, the fourth sub-input may be a touch input that the touch object continues to be on the screen of the electronic device after the first sub-input is ended. For example, the touch input is input after a finger rapidly slides upwards on the screen and leaves the screen.

Optionally, the display form of the background application interface in the embodiment of the present application may be the same as or different from that in the related art. Further, the background application interface in the embodiment of the present application may retain various functions and operations of the background application interface displayed by the electronic device in the related art. Reference may be made in particular to the following exemplary illustrations.

Optionally, for the description of the task window, reference may be made to the description and the exemplary description in the foregoing embodiments, and details are not repeated herein.

Fourth, in conjunction with the first example, as shown in (a) of fig. 5, the background application operation menu interface 01 may further include a control 10. The mobile phone may click the control 10, and after the mobile phone receives a click input to the control 10, the mobile phone may respond to the click input, as shown in (b) of fig. 5, to display an interface 11, i.e., a background application interface, which includes a task window 12 of one background application and a task window 13 of another background application.

In the embodiment of the application, the background application operation menu interface can be triggered and displayed through the first sub-input, and the background application interface is triggered and updated and displayed through the fourth sub-input, so that a task window of a background application can be selected from the background application interface to trigger the background application to be switched to the foreground for running.

It should be noted that the switching method of the application program provided in the embodiment of the present application can complete foreground and background application switching of the application program within one gesture operation, and compared with a foreground and background application switching manner of the application program in the related art, the switching method of the application program has the following advantages:

(1) the switching operation of the foreground and background applications which needs to be finished by more than three times of input originally can be compressed into one time of input, the operation time of a user is saved, and the switching operation of the foreground and background applications can be finished very conveniently under the scene that the user holds the electronic equipment by one hand.

(2) The user can select to switch to the application of the foreground according to actual needs without limiting to switch the latest application running in the background to the foreground, so that the flexibility and freedom of user operation are improved.

In the method for switching an application provided in the embodiment of the present application, the execution main body may be an application running device (for example, the application running device is an electronic device or a function module in the electronic device). In the embodiment of the present application, a method for executing application running by an application running apparatus is taken as an example, and an apparatus for running an application provided in the embodiment of the present application is described.

As shown in fig. 6, an embodiment of the present application provides an application switching apparatus 200, which may include a receiving module 201 and a control module 202. The receiving module 201 may be configured to receive a first input when the foreground runs the first application. The control module 202 may be configured to, in a case that the first input is a first preset input, control, in response to the first input received by the receiving module 201, the first application to switch to a background operation, and control, in response to the first input, the second application running in the background to switch to a foreground operation. Alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

as shown in fig. 7, an embodiment of the present application provides an application switching apparatus 200, which may include a receiving module 201 and a display module 203. The receiving module 201 may be configured to receive a first input when the foreground runs the first application. The display module 203 may be configured to display a background application interface in response to the first input received by the receiving module 201, where the first input is a second preset input, and the background application interface includes a task window of at least one background application, and the at least one background application includes the first application. Still alternatively, the first and second substrates may be,

as shown in fig. 8, an embodiment of the present application provides an application switching apparatus 200, which may include a receiving module 201, a control module 202, and a display module 203. The receiving module 201 may be configured to receive a first input when the foreground runs the first application. The display module 203 may be configured to, in response to the first input received by the receiving module 201, display a background application operation menu interface when the first input is a third preset input, where the background application operation menu interface includes an application identifier of the first application. The control module 202 may be configured to control the first application to resume running in the foreground after the first input is ended.

Optionally, the first input may include a first sub-input and a second sub-input; the application program running device also comprises a display module. The display module may be configured to display a background application operation menu interface in response to the first sub-input received by the receiving module, where the background application operation menu interface includes at least one application identifier, and each application identifier in the at least one application identifier is used to indicate an application running in the background. The control module may be specifically configured to select a target application identifier in response to a second sub-input of the target application identifier, which is received by the receiving module, of the at least one application identifier, where the target application identifier is an application identifier of a second application; and after the second sub-input is finished, controlling the first application to be switched to the background operation and controlling the second application to be switched to the foreground operation.

Optionally, the background application operation menu interface further comprises a pointer control. The control module may be specifically configured to, in response to the second sub-input received by the receiving module, control the pointer control to point to the target application identifier according to an input parameter of the second sub-input; and after the time length of the pointer control pointing to the target application identifier reaches the preset time length, selecting the target application identifier.

Optionally, the display module may be further configured to display a task window of the second application.

Optionally, the first input may comprise a first sub-input and a third sub-input; the application execution device may further include a display module. The display module may be configured to display a background application operation menu interface in response to the first sub-input, where the background application operation menu interface includes at least one application identifier and a first control, and each application identifier in the at least one application identifier is used to indicate an application running in the background. The display module may be further configured to update and display an application identifier of the at least one application identifier in response to the third sub-input to the first control.

Optionally, the first input may comprise a first sub-input and a fourth sub-input; the application program running device also comprises a display module. The display module can be used for responding to the first sub-input and displaying a background application operation menu interface, and the background application operation menu interface comprises a second control; and the background application interface is displayed in response to the fourth sub-input of the second control, and comprises at least one task window of the background application.

The embodiment of the application provides a switching device of an application program, when an application is operated on a foreground of an electronic device, if a user wants to use a certain background application, the user can directly trigger and control the application to be switched to the background operation through an input meeting a first preset input, and control the background application to be switched to the foreground operation, so that the background application meeting the user requirements can be switched to the foreground operation only through one-time input, and the user does not need to trigger the electronic device switching interface for many times. Therefore, the step of switching the background application to the foreground operation by the electronic equipment is simplified.

The application running device in the embodiment of the present application may be an electronic device, and may also be a component in the electronic device, such as an integrated circuit or a chip. The electronic device may be a terminal, or may be a device other than a terminal. The electronic Device may be, for example, a Mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palm top computer, a vehicle-mounted electronic Device, a Mobile Internet Device (MID), an Augmented Reality (AR)/Virtual Reality (VR) Device, a robot, a wearable Device, an ultra-Mobile personal computer (UMPC), a netbook or a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), and the like, and may also be a server, a Network Attached Storage (NAS), a Personal Computer (PC), a Television (TV), a teller machine, a self-service machine, and the like, and the embodiments of the present application are not particularly limited.

The application running device in the embodiment of the present application may be a device having an operating system. The operating system may be an Android operating system (Android), an iOS operating system, or other possible operating systems, which is not specifically limited in the embodiments of the present application.

The application program running device provided in the embodiment of the present application can implement each process implemented by the method embodiments of fig. 1 to fig. 6, and is not described here again to avoid repetition.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 9, an electronic device 300 is further provided in this embodiment of the present application, and includes a processor 301 and a memory 302, where the memory 302 stores a program or an instruction that can be executed on the processor 301, and when the program or the instruction is executed by the processor 301, the steps of the embodiment of the switching method for an application program are implemented, and the same technical effect can be achieved, and are not described again here to avoid repetition.

It should be noted that the electronic device in the embodiment of the present application includes the mobile electronic device and the non-mobile electronic device described above.

Fig. 10 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure 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. 10 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 not repeated here.

The user input unit 407 is configured to receive a first input when the foreground runs the first application. The processor 410 is configured to, in response to the first input received by the user input unit 407, control the first application to switch to a background operation and control the second application running in the background to switch to a foreground operation in a case that the first input is a second preset input. Alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

the user input unit 407 is configured to receive a first input when the foreground runs the first application. The display unit 406 is configured to, in a case that the first input is a second preset input, display a background application interface in response to the first input received by the user input unit 407, where the background application interface includes a task window of at least one background application, and the at least one background application includes the first application. Still alternatively, the first and second substrates may be,

the user input unit 407 is configured to receive a first input when the foreground runs the first application. The display unit 406 is configured to, in a case that the first input is a third preset input, display a background application operation menu interface in response to the first input received by the user input unit 407, where the background application operation menu interface includes an application identifier of the first application. And the processor 410 is used for controlling the first application to be restored to the foreground for running after the first input is ended.

Optionally, the first input comprises a first sub-input and a second sub-input. The display unit 406 is configured to display a background application operation menu interface in response to the first sub-input received by the receiving module, where the background application operation menu interface includes at least one application identifier, and each application identifier in the at least one application identifier is used to indicate an application running in the background. The processor 410 is specifically configured to select a target application identifier in response to a second sub-input of a target application identifier in the at least one application identifier, where the second sub-input is received by the user input unit 407, and the target application identifier is an application identifier of a second application; and after the second sub-input is finished, controlling the first application to be switched to the background operation and controlling the second application to be switched to the foreground operation.

Optionally, the background application operation menu interface further comprises a pointer control. The processor 410 is specifically configured to, in response to the second sub-input received by the user input unit 407, control the pointer control to point to the target application identifier according to an input parameter of the second sub-input; and after the time length of the pointer control pointing to the target application identifier reaches the preset time length, selecting the target application identifier.

Optionally, the display unit 406 is further configured to display a task window of the second application.

Optionally, the first input comprises a first sub-input and a third sub-input. A display unit 406, configured to display, in response to the first sub-input, a background application operation menu interface, where the background application operation menu interface includes at least one application identifier and a first control, and each application identifier in the at least one application identifier is used to indicate an application running in the background; and updating and displaying an application identifier of the at least one application identifier in response to the third sub-input to the first control.

Optionally, the first input comprises a first sub-input and a fourth sub-input. The display unit 406 is configured to display a background application operation menu interface in response to the first sub-input, where the background application operation menu interface includes a second control; and the background application interface is displayed in response to the fourth sub-input of the second control, and comprises at least one task window of the background application.

The embodiment of the application provides an electronic device, when an application is operated by a foreground of the electronic device, if a user wants to use a certain background application, the user can directly trigger and control the application to be switched to the background operation through an input meeting a first preset input, and control the background application to be switched to the foreground operation, so that the background application meeting the user requirements can be switched to the foreground operation only through one-time input, and the user does not need to trigger an electronic device switching interface for many times. Therefore, the step of switching the background application to the foreground operation by the electronic equipment is simplified.

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 at least one of 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. The memory 409 may mainly include a first storage area storing a program or an instruction and a second storage area storing data, wherein the first storage area may store an operating system, an application program or an instruction (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.) required for at least one function, and the like. Further, the memory 409 may comprise volatile memory or non-volatile memory, or the memory 409 may comprise both volatile and non-volatile memory. The non-volatile Memory may be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable PROM (EPROM), an Electrically Erasable PROM (EEPROM), or a flash Memory. The volatile Memory may be a Random Access Memory (RAM), a Static Random Access Memory (Static RAM, SRAM), a Dynamic Random Access Memory (Dynamic RAM, DRAM), a Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (Synchronous DRAM, SDRAM), a Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (Double Data Rate SDRAM, ddr SDRAM), an Enhanced Synchronous SDRAM (ESDRAM), a Synchronous Link DRAM (SLDRAM), and a Direct bus RAM (DRRAM). Memory 109 in the embodiments of the subject application includes, but is not limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

Processor 410 may include one or more processing units; optionally, the processor 410 integrates an application processor, which primarily handles operations related to the operating system, user interface, and applications, and a modem processor, which primarily handles wireless communication signals, such as a baseband processor. It will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into the processor 410.

The embodiments of the present application further provide a readable storage medium, where a program or an instruction is stored, and when the program or the instruction is executed by a processor, the program or the instruction implements each process of the foregoing embodiment of the method for switching an application program, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, the detailed description is omitted here.

The processor is the processor in the electronic device described in the above embodiment. The readable storage medium includes a computer readable storage medium, such as a computer read only memory ROM, a random access memory RAM, a magnetic or optical disk, and the like.

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 run a program or an instruction to implement each process of the embodiment of the switching method for an application program, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, the description is omitted here.

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.

Embodiments of the present application provide a computer program product, where the program product is stored in a storage medium, and the program product is executed by at least one processor to implement the processes of the foregoing embodiment of the switching method for an application program, and can achieve the same technical effects, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

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 computer 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 according to 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. A method for switching an application program, the method comprising:

receiving a first input under the condition that a first application is operated in a foreground;

under the condition that the first input is a first preset input, responding to the first input, controlling the first application to be switched to operate in a background, and controlling a second application which operates in the background to be switched to operate in a foreground;

under the condition that the first input is a second preset input, responding to the first input, and displaying a background application interface, wherein the background application interface comprises a task window of at least one background application, and the at least one background application comprises the first application;

and under the condition that the first input is a third preset input, responding to the first input, displaying a background application operation menu interface, wherein the background application operation menu interface comprises an application identifier of the first application, and controlling the first application to be recovered to the foreground for running after the first input is finished.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first input comprises a first sub-input and a second sub-input;

the responding to the first input, controlling the first application to be switched to the background running and controlling the second application running in the background to be switched to the foreground running, includes:

responding to the first sub-input, displaying a background application operation menu interface, wherein the background application operation menu interface comprises at least one application identifier, and each application identifier in the at least one application identifier is used for indicating one application running in the background;

in response to the second sub-input of a target application identifier in the at least one application identifier, selecting the target application identifier, wherein the target application identifier is an application identifier of the second application;

after the second sub-input is finished, controlling the first application to be switched to a background operation, and controlling the second application to be switched to a foreground operation.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the background application operations menu interface further comprises a pointer control;

selecting a target application identification in response to the second sub-input of the target application identification of the at least one application identification, including:

responding to the second sub-input, and controlling the pointer control to point to the target application identification according to the input parameters of the second sub-input;

and after the time length of the pointer control pointing to the target application identifier reaches a preset time length, selecting the target application identifier.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first input comprises a first sub-input and a third sub-input;

the responding to the first input, controlling the first application to be switched to the background operation, and controlling the second application running in the background to be switched to the foreground operation, including:

responding to the first sub-input, displaying a background application operation menu interface, wherein the background application operation menu interface comprises at least one application identifier and a first control, and each application identifier in the at least one application identifier is used for indicating one application running in the background;

in response to the third sub-input to the first control, updating to display an application identification of the at least one application identification.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first input comprises a first sub-input and a fourth sub-input;

responding to the first sub-input, displaying a background application operation menu interface, wherein the background application operation menu interface comprises a second control;

and responding to the fourth sub-input of the second control, and displaying a background application interface, wherein the background application interface comprises at least one task window of a background application.

6. The switching device of the application program is characterized by comprising a receiving module, and at least one of a control module and a display module;

the receiving module is used for receiving a first input under the condition that a first application is operated in a foreground;

the control module is used for responding to the first input received by the receiving module under the condition that the first input is a first preset input, controlling the first application to be switched to the background operation and controlling the second application running in the background to be switched to the foreground operation;

the display module is configured to display a background application interface in response to the first input received by the receiving module when the first input is a second preset input, where the background application interface includes a task window of at least one background application, and the at least one background application includes the first application; alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

the display module is configured to, in a case that the first input is a third preset input, respond to the first input received by the receiving module, and display a background application operation menu interface, where the background application operation menu interface includes an application identifier of the first application;

and the control module is used for controlling the first application to be restored to the foreground for running after the first input is finished.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the first input comprises a first sub-input and a second sub-input; the application program running device also comprises a display module;

the display module is configured to display a background application operation menu interface in response to the first sub-input received by the receiving module, where the background application operation menu interface includes at least one application identifier, and each application identifier in the at least one application identifier is used to indicate an application running in a background;

the control module is specifically configured to select a target application identifier in the at least one application identifier in response to the second sub-input of the target application identifier received by the receiving module, where the target application identifier is an application identifier of the second application; and after the second sub-input is finished, controlling the first application to be switched to the background operation and controlling the second application to be switched to the foreground operation.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the background application operations menu interface further comprises a pointer control;

the control module is specifically configured to, in response to the second sub-input received by the receiving module, control the pointer control to point to the target application identifier according to an input parameter of the second sub-input; and after the time length of the pointer control pointing to the target application identifier reaches a preset time length, selecting the target application identifier.

9. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the first input comprises a first sub-input and a third sub-input; the application program running device also comprises a display module;

the display module is configured to display a background application operation menu interface in response to the first sub-input, where the background application operation menu interface includes at least one application identifier and a first control, and each application identifier in the at least one application identifier is used to indicate an application running in a background;

the display module is further configured to update and display an application identifier of the at least one application identifier in response to the third sub-input to the first control.

10. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the first input comprises a first sub-input and a fourth sub-input; the application program running device also comprises a display module;

the display module is used for responding to the first sub-input and displaying a background application operation menu interface, and the background application operation menu interface comprises a second control;

the display module is further configured to display a background application interface in response to the fourth sub-input to the second control, where the background application interface includes a task window of at least one background application.