TW201516843A - Rearranging method for icons of applications - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a rearranging method for icons of applications displayed on a display of a mobile device. The rearranging method comprises: (a) recording labels causing from a user choosing his interested applications on an interactive interface; (b) establishing an updated desktop profile containing location information of chosen applications, the location information being icons corresponding to chosen applications in the priority placed on the display; and (c) loading the updated desktop profile to display an updated desktop on the display, when a trigger for rearranging icons is monitored. By the present invention, the user can find his interested applications quickly.

Description

Application icon reordering method

The present invention relates to an application diagram rearrangement method, and more particularly to an application diagram rearrangement method for a display screen of a mobile device.

In recent years, smart phones have made rapid progress, and at the same time more and more mobile application software has emerged. In order to meet the needs of usability, playability and humanization, people usually install more applications on their mobile phones. These applications are displayed on the mobile phone's desktop or application list in graphical form. When you need to launch an application, you can click on the icon of the application on the desktop or in the application list. In current mobile phones, unless the user presses the icon and moves to the new location, the icon of the application is often fixed on the desktop or in the application list. When the application is installed in the mobile phone When the number is large, even the icon of the application that the user frequently uses is buried in a large number of application icons, and it is difficult for the user to intuitively and quickly find the icon of the frequently used application and start up. The icon corresponds to the application.

In view of the problems in the prior art, one of the objects of the present invention is to provide an application diagram rearrangement method for the user to quickly find an icon of an application of interest.

The following steps are performed in the pairing method of the mobile device of the present invention: (a) recording a plurality of identifiers of a plurality of applications selected by the user on the interactive interface; (b) establishing an update table a profile that includes graphical location information for the applications, the graphical location information being a display screen for each of the applications corresponding to the first priority of the mobile device; and (c) when monitoring a graphic When the trigger event is triggered, an updated desktop is loaded into the display screen according to the updated desktop profile.

The advantages and spirit of the present invention will be further understood from the following detailed description of the invention.

S101~S103, S201~S209‧‧‧ implementation steps

301‧‧‧recording unit

302‧‧‧Desktop Profile Maintenance Unit

303‧‧‧ Graphic rearrangement trigger event monitoring unit

304‧‧‧Illustrated sequence recovery unit

1 is a flow chart of a first embodiment of an application diagram rearrangement method of the present invention.

2 is a flow chart of a second embodiment of the application diagram rearrangement method of the present invention.

Figure 3 is a schematic illustration of a control module in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Please refer to FIG. 1 , which is a flowchart of a first embodiment of an application diagram rearrangement method according to the present invention, including the following steps: Step S101: Recording a plurality of applications selected by a user in an interactive interface. Logo.

In this step, the mobile device presents an interactive interface to the display screen. The user selects a plurality of applications of interest through the interactive interface and each produces a logo to be recorded by the mobile device. Through this interactive interface, users can choose which applications they want to use at any time according to their needs or preferences.

Step S102: Establish an updated desktop profile, where the updated desktop profile includes one of the applications, the location information, where the icon location information is preferentially placed on the mobile device for each of the corresponding applications. The display screen.

On the mobile device, the desktop profile is used to manage the location of multiple application icons on the desktop. In the present invention, in order to rearrange a plurality of application icons of the desktop, the mobile device establishes an updated desktop profile according to the identifier of the application selected by the user in step S101, so as to include the related application firstly placed on the display screen. Location information.

Step S103: When monitoring a graphical rearrangement triggering event, loading an updated desktop to the display screen according to the updated desktop profile, so that the corresponding icon of the application selected by the user in step S101 is preferentially located in the mobile device. Display screen.

It can be seen that in the application diagram rearrangement method provided by the first embodiment of the present invention, the user selects an application that is of interest to the user, outputs the identification and records to the mobile device, and updates the desktop profile to the user. The location information of the selected application icon is defined as being placed in the display screen first; when the graphic rearrangement triggering event occurs, the mobile device loads the updated desktop profile, refreshes the location of the application icon, and thus uses The icon of the selected application is placed on the display screen of the mobile device, so that the user can quickly find the icon of the application of interest.

Please refer to FIG. 2, which is a flow chart of a second embodiment of the present invention. In the second embodiment, the mobile device rearranges the trigger event with the shaking event as an illustration, and details the method for rearranging the application of the present invention.

Step S201: The mobile device provides an interactive interface for the user to select an application of interest, and the user selects an application of interest through the interactive interface.

In order to implement the rearrangement of the application diagram of the present invention, the mobile device is installed as an application (hereinafter referred to as a graphical rearrangement application) that implements the function. The graphical rearrangement application provides an interactive interface for the user to select a favorite or favorite application. interactive The interface displays the name of the installed application of the mobile device as a list, or displays the icon of the application for the user to select. In this interactive interface, the order of the names/drawings of multiple applications can be sorted according to the frequency/number of applications or the name of the application.

Step S202: After the user selects a plurality of applications through the interactive interface, the mobile device records a plurality of identifiers of the selected application.

Step S203: Establish an update desktop profile to include the icon location information of the application, so that the icon corresponding to the identifier of the application recorded in step S202 is preferentially placed on the display screen of the mobile device.

Take the Android system as an example. The desktop profile responsible for managing the desktop icon sequence and other desktop effect information is the Launcher file. In the Launcher file, you can set the page on which the application icon placed on the desktop is placed, and the horizontal and vertical position of the page in the page. For example, the location information of the icon of an application is: page N The mth position in the X direction and the Lth position in the Y direction. Therefore, in the Android system, the icon position corresponding to the identifier of the application recorded in step S202 can be preferentially set to be on the display screen in the Launcher file, and the X direction position and the Y direction position can be set, and the icons are further set. Priority is placed on the front of the display.

When the application icon location information in the Launcher file is set, the application icon that is originally on the display screen will be moved to the back of the icon corresponding to the identifier of the application recorded in step S202. In addition, there is also a problem of sorting in the icon set of the identifier of the application recorded in step S202. In this embodiment, step S202 may be performed according to the name order of the plurality of applications, the frequency of use, or the order specified by the user. The user selected in the record The location information of the icon of the application is set in order. Here, the user-specified order may be in step 201, the user selects an application of interest through the interactive interface, and specifies the order of each of the selected plurality of applications, for example, the user can drag the application. The program name or icon is used to adjust the order position of one of the multiple applications selected.

In addition, if the number of icons corresponding to the identifier of the application recorded in step S202 exceeds the number of icons that can be accommodated on the display screen of the mobile device, the icon that cannot be arranged on the display screen will be moved to the next. The position on the front of the page. It should be noted that, in the present invention, it is necessary to first update the desktop profile to the mobile device and load it, and then perform the rearrangement on the desktop.

Step S204: Monitor the gravity sensor event fed back by the gravity sensor. In the Android system, the gravity sensor is represented as Gsensor, and the gravity sensor event is represented as GsensorEvent. The task of monitoring the gravity sensor event can be done by the JAVA sensor class in the JAVA Framework layer.

Step S205: After monitoring the gravity sensor event returned by the gravity sensor, driving the gravity sensor to feedback the posture change information of the mobile device.

Step S206: Determine whether a mobile device shaking event occurs according to the mobile device posture change information. Since the posture change of the mobile device has various aspects, in this embodiment, the trigger event of the rearrangement event is defined as the mobile device shaking event, so it is necessary to first determine whether the posture change of the mobile device is shaking. If it is determined in step S206 that the gravity sensor event is not a mobile device shaking event, then step S204 is returned to continue monitoring. If it is determined in step S206 that the gravity sensor event is a mobile device shaking event, proceeding to step S207: reading the update The desktop profile is used to reload the desktop, so that the icon corresponding to the identification of the plurality of applications selected by the user recorded in step S202 is preferentially placed on the display screen of the mobile device.

In fact, the user re-arranges the trigger event by the illustration to trigger the priority of the application selected in step S201 on the mobile device display screen, and the purpose is to conveniently find the application of interest that was previously selected. And use it. After the user finishes using the application of interest, if the illustrated sequence of the mobile device is restored to the state before the rearrangement, the embodiment preferably performs the following steps: Step S208: Determine whether a restored original desktop condition is satisfied. Step S209: When the result of the determination in step S208 is YES, an original desktop is loaded into the display screen according to an original desktop profile.

The original desktop profile refers to the desktop profile used by the mobile device before the update of the desktop profile is established in step S203. In actuality, determining whether the original desktop condition is met in step S208 may be: determining whether the display screen displays whether the updated desktop is greater than or equal to a time interval, and if so, determining that the condition of the application program sequence recovery is satisfied. In this way, after the application icon is rearranged for a period of time in step S207, the previous sequence is restored. Alternatively, determining whether the original desktop condition is met in step S208 may be: determining whether the mobile device cancels the icon of rearranging the application. Determine if the system exits the icon reflow function. The specific implementation manner is, for example, pressing a physical button of a mobile device or a virtual button of an interactive interface, or triggering a re-arrangement re-arranging function by a specific gesture; or triggering a re-arranging re-arranging function when exiting the icon re-arranging application .

The invention also provides a control module, which is arranged on the mobile device to rearrange the application, as shown in FIG. The control module includes a recording unit 301, a desktop profile maintenance unit 302, and a graphical rearrangement trigger event monitoring unit 303.

The recording unit 301 is configured to record a plurality of identifiers of the plurality of applications of interest selected by the user through the interactive interface, and the identifiers may be: a plurality of identifiers of a plurality of applications commonly used by the user or preferred by the user. The desktop profile maintenance unit 302 is configured to establish an updated desktop profile to include graphical location information of the application. The illustrated location information is preferentially placed on the display screen of the mobile device for the icons corresponding to the applications. The illustrated rearrangement trigger event monitoring unit 303 is configured to load an updated desktop to the display screen according to the updated desktop profile when monitoring a graphical rearrangement triggering event.

In this embodiment, the illustrated rearrangement triggering event may be a mobile device shaking event. The illustrated rearrangement trigger event monitoring unit 303 monitors the occurrence of the illustrated rearrangement triggering event, which may be: a gravity sensor event that monitors the gravity sensor feedback; after monitoring the gravity sensor feedback of the gravity sensor feedback, The gravity sensor is driven to feedback the posture change information of the mobile device; and according to the posture change information of the mobile device, it is determined whether a mobile device shaking event occurs.

In addition, in order to achieve the state in which the illustrated sequence is restored to the state before the rearrangement, the control module in this embodiment further includes: an illustrated sequence restoring unit 304, configured to configure an original desktop profile when the original desktop condition is restored. Load an original desktop on the display.

With the control module provided by the present invention, the user can select a plurality of applications of interest, generate a plurality of identifiers and record; create an updated desktop profile, and display the location information of the plurality of application icons selected by the user. Defined as the position of the display screen first; when the re-arrangement trigger event occurs, the update desktop profile is updated, the location of the application icon is refreshed, and the icon of the application selected by the user is prioritized in action. The display of the device is convenient for the user to recognize.

The invention further provides a mobile device, the mobile device comprising at least one processing And a memory coupled to the processor. The memory records an identifier of the plurality of applications of interest selected by the user through the interactive interface, and stores an original desktop profile; the at least one processor refers to the identifier, establishes an updated desktop profile, and monitors whether the occurrence occurs. A graphic rearrangement trigger event.

The foregoing updated desktop profile includes graphic location information of a plurality of applications, so that the (application) icon corresponding to the recorded identifier is preferentially placed on the display screen of the mobile device. Moreover, when the processor monitors the graphical rearrangement triggering event, an updated desktop is loaded into the display screen according to the updated desktop profile. The illustrated rearrangement trigger event is defined in practice as a mobile device shake event. In addition, in order to realize the state in which the illustrated sequence is restored to the state before the rearrangement, the at least one processor, when determining that the original desktop condition is satisfied, loads an original desktop to the display screen according to the original desktop profile.

In the mobile device provided by the present invention, the user can select a plurality of application identifiers that are of interest to the user, and create an updated desktop profile to set the location information of the selected application icon to be preferentially placed in the display screen; When the re-arrangement trigger event occurs, the update desktop profile is updated, and the location of the application icon is refreshed, so that the icon of the application selected by the user is preferentially placed on the display screen of the mobile device for user identification. .

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Claims (10)

An application diagram rearrangement method is applied to a mobile device having a display screen, the method comprising the steps of: (a) recording a plurality of identifiers of a plurality of applications selected by a user in an interactive interface; (b) Establishing an updated desktop profile, wherein the updated desktop profile includes one of the applications, the location information, wherein the graphical location information is one of the corresponding applications of the application is preferentially placed on the mobile device Display screen; and (c) when monitoring a graphical rearrangement trigger event, loading an updated desktop to the display screen according to the updated desktop profile. The method of claim 1, wherein the illustrated rearrangement triggering event is a mobile device shaking event. The method of claim 2, wherein the step (c) further comprises the steps of: (c1) monitoring a gravity sensor feedback one of the gravity sensor events; (c2) monitoring the gravity sensor feedback After the gravity sensor event, the gravity sensor is driven to feedback the posture change information of the mobile device; and (c3) determining whether the mobile device shaking event occurs according to the posture change information. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifier indicates that the user likes the applications or the user commonly uses the applications through the interactive interface. The method of claim 1, wherein the graphical location information of the updated desktop profile includes a name of one of the applications or a frequency of use or a serial number specified by the user, and according to the name or the frequency of use or This serial number sets the icon. The method of claim 1, further comprising the following steps: (d) determining whether the original desktop condition is satisfied; and (e) loading the original desktop to the display screen according to an original desktop profile if the original desktop condition is restored. The method of claim 6, wherein the step (d) is: (d1) determining whether the display screen indicates whether the updated desktop is greater than or equal to a time interval, or (d2) determining whether the mobile device cancels the rearrangement. These icons for the application. A control module is disposed in a mobile device for rearranging the icons of the plurality of applications, the control module comprising: a recording unit, configured to record a user to select the plurality of applications in an interactive interface a desktop profile maintenance unit for establishing an updated desktop profile to include one of the application icons for displaying location information, wherein the icon location information is preferentially placed for each icon corresponding to the applications a display screen of the mobile device; and a graphical rearrangement trigger event monitoring unit for loading an updated desktop to the display screen according to the updated desktop profile when monitoring a graphical rearrangement trigger event. The control module of claim 8, wherein the illustrated rearrangement triggering event is a mobile device shaking event. The control module of claim 8, further comprising: an illustrated sequence recovery unit, configured to load an original desktop into the display screen according to an original desktop profile when a restore original desktop condition is satisfied.