WO2019223578A1 - Application program preloading method and apparatus, and storage medium and terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided are an application program preloading method and apparatus, and a storage medium and a terminal. The method comprises: when it is detected that an application preloading event is triggered, determining application programs to be preloaded (101); for each of the application programs to be preloaded, determining a target application program having a pre-set association relationship with a current application program to be preloaded (102); and preloading the target application program while the current application program to be preloaded is preloaded, or after the current application program is preloaded (103).

Description

Application program preloading method, device, storage medium and terminal

This application claims priority from a Chinese patent application filed with the Chinese Patent Office on May 21, 2018 with application number 201810488536.0, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.

Technical field

The embodiments of the present application relate to the technical field of application preloading, for example, to a method, a device, a storage medium, and a terminal for preloading an application.

Background technique

At present, terminals such as smart phones, tablet computers, laptops, and smart home appliances have become essential electronic devices in people's daily lives. With the continuous intelligentization of terminal devices, most terminal devices are loaded with operating systems, enabling terminal devices to install a variety of applications to meet different needs of users.

With the continuous improvement of the configuration of terminal devices, dozens or even hundreds of applications can be installed in most terminal devices, and as the functions of applications become more and more abundant, more resources need to be loaded when the applications run. When the user chooses to start an application, the terminal will load the resources required for the application to start. After loading, the initial interface of the application is entered. The entire process usually takes several seconds or even ten seconds, resulting in the application. The start-up efficiency of the program is low and urgently needs improvement.

Summary of the Invention

The following is an overview of the topics detailed in this article. This summary is not intended to limit the scope of protection of the claims.

The embodiments of the present application provide a method, a device, a storage medium, and a terminal for preloading an application program, which can optimize a preloading solution for the application program in the terminal.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an application preloading method, including: determining that an application to be preloaded is detected when an application preloading event is triggered; and for each of the applications to be preloaded, The pre-loaded application program determines a target application program that has a preset association relationship with the current to-be-pre-loaded application program; while pre-loading the currently-to-be-pre-loaded application program, or at the current to-be-pre-loaded application program After pre-loading, pre-load the target application.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an application preloading device, including: an application to be preloaded determination module configured to determine an application to be preloaded when an application preloading event is triggered is detected; a target application determination module Is configured to determine, for each of the applications to be preloaded, a target application that has a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded; an application preloading module is configured to While pre-loading the currently-to-be-pre-loaded application, or after pre-loading the currently-to-be-pre-loaded application, pre-load the target application.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a computer-readable storage medium on which a computer program is stored. When the program is executed by a processor, the method for preloading an application according to the first aspect of the embodiment of the present application is implemented.

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a terminal, including a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored in the memory and executable by the processor. When the processor executes the computer program, the implementation is implemented as in the embodiment of the present application. The application preloading method described in the first aspect.

After reading and understanding the drawings and detailed description, other aspects can be understood.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematic flowchart of an application preloading process according to an embodiment of the present application; FIG.

2 is a schematic diagram of a relative position relationship between a preloaded active window stack and a display screen display area according to an embodiment of the present application;

3 is a schematic diagram of a relative position relationship between a preloaded active window stack and a display screen display area according to an embodiment of the present application;

4 is a schematic diagram of application interface migration provided by an embodiment of the present application;

5 is a schematic flowchart of another application preloading method according to an embodiment of the present application;

6 is a schematic flowchart of another application preloading method according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 is a structural block diagram of an application preloading device according to an embodiment of the present application; FIG.

8 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of another terminal according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed ways

The technical solutions of the present application will be further described below with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments. It can be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are only used to explain the present application, rather than limiting the present application. It should also be noted that, for convenience of description, the drawings only show a part of the structure related to the present application, but not the entire structure.

Before discussing the exemplary embodiments in more detail, it should be mentioned that some exemplary embodiments are described as processes or methods depicted as flowcharts. Although the flowchart describes the steps as sequential processing, many of the steps can be performed in parallel, concurrently, or simultaneously. In addition, the order of the steps can be rearranged. The process may be terminated when its operation is completed, but may also have additional steps not included in the drawings. The processing may correspond to methods, functions, procedures, subroutines, subroutines, and so on.

FIG. 1 is a schematic flowchart of an application preloading method according to an embodiment of the present application. The method may be executed by an application preloading device, where the device may be implemented by software and / or hardware, and may generally be integrated in a terminal. As shown in FIG. 1, the method includes steps 101 to 103.

In step 101, when it is detected that an application preloading event is triggered, an application program to be preloaded is determined.

Exemplarily, the terminal in the embodiments of the present application may include terminal devices such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, and smart home appliances. The terminal is loaded with an operating system.

Exemplarily, the triggering condition of the application preload event can be set according to the actual situation, which is not specifically limited in the embodiment of the present application. For example, an application preload event can be triggered when it is detected that a user's action meets a preset condition (such as picking up a terminal, entering a screen to unlock an operation, or inputting a terminal to unlock an operation, etc.); or when a change to a foreground application is detected, Trigger an application preload event; or you can trigger an application preload event immediately (or after a preset time period has elapsed) after the prediction process of the preloaded application ends; or you can trigger at regular intervals. After the application preload event is triggered, the system can detect that the application preload event has been triggered by reading a flag bit or receiving a trigger instruction, and the specific detection method is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

Exemplarily, the application to be preloaded can be understood as an application that the user may soon open, which may be a fixed application that is set in advance, or an application that is predicted in a certain manner. The applications to be preloaded may include one or more.

In one embodiment, a prediction model may be used to make predictions on the application to be preloaded. The prediction model can be a machine learning model, and the algorithms used can include Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, threshold recurrent units, simple recurrent units, automatic encoding , Decision tree, random forest, feature mean classification, classification regression tree, hidden Markov, K-NearestNeighbor (KNN) algorithm, logistic regression model, Bayesian model, Gaussian model, and KL divergence (Kullback Leibler divergence) and so on.

In one embodiment, during the process of using the terminal by the user, training samples can be collected, the preset initial model can be trained by using the training samples, and finally a prediction model for predicting the application to be preloaded can be obtained. Exemplarily, the elements included in the training sample may include a time series or sequence sequence in which the application is opened; may include the time, place, and frequency of the application being opened; and may include a running state of the terminal, such as a switch of a mobile data network Status, the connection status of the wireless hotspot, the identity information of the connected wireless hotspot, the currently running application, the previous foreground application, the length of time the current application stays in the background, the time when the current application was last switched to the background, The plugging and unplugging status, charging status, battery power information, and screen display duration of the headphone jack; it can also include data collected by sensors integrated in the terminal, such as motion sensors, light sensors, temperature sensors, and humidity sensors.

Exemplarily, an appropriate sample element can be selected according to the selected machine learning model, and the selected machine learning model can be determined according to the selected sample element. It can also be combined with the requirements of prediction accuracy and preset speed. The selection of models and sample elements is not limited in the embodiments of the present application.

In the embodiment of the present application, determining the application to be preloaded may include determining the application to be preloaded according to the previous output result of the prediction model, or may include performing prediction by using the prediction model to determine the current output result of the prediction model as the to be preloaded. application.

In the embodiment of the present application, when there are multiple (N) applications to be preloaded, the prediction model may output the startup probability of each candidate application set in the candidate application set, and determine the candidate application with a higher startup probability as the standby application. Preload the application. In an embodiment, the determining an application to be preloaded includes: predicting a startup probability of a candidate application; and determining a preset number of candidate applications with a high startup probability as the application to be preloaded. Exemplarily, the candidate applications may include all applications installed in the terminal, and may also include some applications. Some applications may not include system applications or applications that are rarely used by users. This embodiment of the present application does not limit the manner and quantity of candidate application programs. In one embodiment, the candidate applications can be determined according to the number of times and / or the duration of use of each application within a preset period before the current time. The preset period is, for example, one month. When the number of uses and / or the duration exceeds When the corresponding threshold value is determined, the corresponding application is determined as a candidate application, or each application is sorted according to the number of times and / or the duration of use, and the top-ranked application is determined as a candidate application.

Exemplarily, the prediction model described above may be used to determine the startup probability of each candidate application. For example, according to the training samples during prediction model training, current samples are collected, and the current samples are input into the prediction model to obtain the startup probability of each candidate application. The startup probability can be sorted from high to low, and the candidate N applications (N is a preset value) are determined as the applications to be loaded. This setting can preload multiple applications, and these multiple applications are determined according to the startup probability, which can improve the accuracy of the prediction.

In step 102, for each of the applications to be preloaded, a target application that has a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded is determined.

In the embodiment of the present application, when only one application to be pre-loaded is determined, a target application that has a preset association relationship with the pre-loaded application is determined. When there are multiple applications to be preloaded, for each of the multiple applications to be preloaded, a target application that has a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded is determined. Exemplarily, the application to be preloaded includes five applications, which are application A, application B, application C, application D, and application E, respectively, and these five applications (application A , Application B, application C, application D, and application E) the target application with a preset association relationship. It should be noted that, among the one or more applications to be preloaded, not necessarily each of the applications to be preloaded has a target application in a preset association relationship with it.

Exemplarily, a preset association relationship between applications can be understood as an association between applications that meets a certain condition. The preset association relationship may include an association start relationship. For example, when online shopping applications are often associated with launching online payment applications, the online shopping applications and online payment applications can be regarded as associated startup applications, that is, the online payment applications can be regarded as related to online shopping applications. The application is an application with a preset association relationship. For another example, in the process of using news reading applications, users often share interesting, important or interesting news news through social applications to other users, and then they can share news reading applications and social An application is regarded as an association startup application, that is, a social application can be regarded as an application that has a preset association relationship with a news reading application. The preset association relationship may further include a relationship started in a fixed sequence. For example, users often open application B after using application A, then they can consider application A and application B as applications in a fixed sequential startup relationship, that is, application B is presented as application A. Application for preset associations.

Exemplarily, a target application that has a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded may be determined based on the preset association application list, and a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded may be determined according to the associated application prediction model. The target application can also be determined according to the user's selection of the target application that has a preset association relationship with the current to-be-loaded application. It should be noted that the embodiment of the present application does not limit the manner of determining the target application that has a preset association relationship with the current to-be-loaded application.

In one embodiment, when there are multiple applications to be preloaded, it can be determined whether the multiple applications to be preloaded include applications that have a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded. Use the application as a target application that has a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded. It can be understood that at this time, the target application that has a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded also belongs to the application to be preloaded, that is, the application to be preloaded includes a group of applications with a preset association relationship. program. In an embodiment, the target application that has a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded may also be an application program other than the application to be preloaded. This embodiment of the present application does not limit this.

In step 103, while pre-loading the current to-be-pre-loaded application program, or after pre-loading the current to-be-pre-loaded application program, pre-load the target application program.

In the embodiment of the present application, the current to-be-preloaded application program and the target application program are preloaded at the same time. Exemplarily, the current application to be preloaded is application A, and the target application that has a preset association relationship with application A is application B, and then preload operation is performed on both application A and application B, that is, It is said that the preloading process of application A and application B can be performed in parallel. In one embodiment, the target application is preloaded after the current application to be preloaded is preloaded. Wherein, the target application can be preloaded after the preset duration of the current pre-loaded application is preloaded; after the pre-loading of the startup resources corresponding to the current to-be-loaded application is completely preloaded, the target application can be preloaded. The target application is preloaded; it is also possible to preload the target application after preloading some of the startup resources corresponding to the current to-be-loaded application. Part of the startup resources can be understood as the current to-be-loaded application startup Part of all the startup resources needed at the time. This embodiment of the present application does not limit this.

In the embodiment of the present application, the specific process of preloading and the resources loaded are not limited, and the preloading of the target application is taken as an example for description. For example, a corresponding hardware resource can be allocated to a target application, and related data required for startup can be loaded based on the allocated hardware resource. Exemplarily, it may include application process startup, application service startup, memory allocation, file content reading, network data acquisition, and interface rendering. In addition, pre-loaded resources can be determined based on the specific type of target application. For example, if the target application is a social software, you can preload the startup screen, contact list, and recent message records in the target application; if the target application is a game, you can preload the target application. Game background related data.

In the application preloading method provided in the embodiment of the present application, when it is detected that an application preloading event is triggered, an application to be preloaded is determined, and for each of the applications to be preloaded in the application to be preloaded, the current application The target application whose pre-loaded application has a preset association relationship, while pre-loading the current to-be-pre-loaded application, or after pre-loading the current to-be-pre-loaded application, pre-load the target application . By adopting the above technical solution, pre-loading applications that have a preset association relationship at the same time or pre-loading sequentially according to the association relationship can improve the hit rate of pre-loading applications that are actually started by the user, and further improve the The startup speed of the application with the preset relationship.

In some embodiments, determining a target application that has a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded includes: obtaining a list of preset association applications; wherein the list of preset association applications includes multiple groups of preset associations A combination of related application programs; and searching for a target application program that has a preset association relationship with a current to-be-loaded application program from the preset associated application list. This setting can simply and quickly determine a target application that has a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded.

Exemplarily, find out whether there is an application corresponding to the current application to be preloaded from the preset associated application list, and if so, determine the application as a target that has a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded application. Wherein, the plurality of groups of application combinations in the preset association application included in the preset association application may be obtained by summing up a user's habits or rules of using the application.

In an embodiment, the method for obtaining the preset associated application list includes: obtaining an application usage sequence and a number of occurrences corresponding to the application usage sequence within a preset time period; wherein the application usage sequence Including two applications launched in association; when the number of occurrences is greater than a preset number threshold, using the application sequence as an application combination in a preset association relationship, and generating an application based on the application combination The preset associated application list is described. This setting can determine the preset associated application list that is more in line with the user's own according to the user's use of the application, thereby making the target application that is determined to have a preset association with the current to-be-loaded application more targeted. To better meet user needs.

Exemplarily, during the period of one month from the current time, the application uses the sequence, and the number of occurrences corresponding to the sequence used by the application is counted. In the case that the number of occurrences corresponding to the application usage sequence is greater than the preset number of times threshold, it indicates that the user is habitually using the application usage sequence. At this time, the application usage sequence may be used as an application combination in a preset association relationship, or That is, the application uses a strong association relationship between two applications in the sequence, and generates a preset associated application list based on the application combination. It can be understood that the preset association application list includes multiple groups of application combinations in a preset association relationship. For example, during a preset period of time, during the running of application A, application A initiates a call request for application B, and application A associates and starts application B, and the application usage sequence can be expressed as: ( Application A → Application B, 5), where 5 in (Application A → Application B, 5) indicates that Application A has been associated with starting Application B 5 times. For another example, in the case where the application running in the foreground is switched from application C to application D, that is, after the user has used application C, the application D has appeared 10 times in a preset period of time. The application sequence is expressed as: (application C → application D, 10). If the preset number of times threshold is set to 3, an application sequence (application A → application B, 5) and (application C → application D, 10) may be used as an application combination in a preset association relationship. The number in the application sequence indicates the number of occurrences of the application sequence within a preset time period. The more occurrences, that is, the larger the number, indicates that the two applications in the application sequence have a preset association relationship. The stronger the intensity.

It should be noted that when a plurality of applications that are in a preset association relationship with the application to be preloaded are found from the preset association application list, the multiple applications may be used as target applications or associated. The application with the highest intensity is used as the target application, and a preset number of applications with higher correlation strength may also be used as the target application, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

Exemplarily, the preset associated application list obtained through the above manner is shown in the following table:

(Taobao → Alipay, 15)	(Taobao → WeChat, 5)
(Phone → WeChat, 5)	(Meituan → Gaode map, 4)
(Camera → Meitu Xiuxiu, 8)	(Mobike → ofo bike sharing, 12)
(Hungry → Meituan Takeaway, 6)	(Doraic movement → Keep, 5)
(Headline Today → WeChat, 4)	(Cool Dog Music → Netease Cloud Music, 5)
(Jingdong Mall → Suning Tesco, 7)	(Cool Dog Music → Iqiyi Video, 6)

The determined applications to be preloaded include: Taobao, QQ, Weibo, and WeChat. For the Taobao to be preloaded application, from the list of preset associated applications, the applications that have a preset association relationship with Taobao include Alipay and WeChat. At this time, Alipay and WeChat can be used as the target application with a preset association with Taobao at the same time, or Alipay with a higher correlation strength can be used as the target application with a preset association with Taobao. For QQ, Weibo and WeChat in the application to be preloaded, there is no target application that has a preset association relationship with it.

In some embodiments, determining a target application that is in a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded includes: obtaining current usage scenario information; and determining that the application is to be preloaded with the current application to be preloaded according to the current usage scenario information. Set the target application for the relationship. This setting can reasonably determine the target application that has a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded according to the current usage scenario information.

Wherein, the usage scene information includes at least one of the following: time information, date category, mobile data network switch status, wireless hotspot connection status, identity information of the connected wireless hotspot, previous foreground application, plug of the headphone jack Unplug status, charging status, battery power information, screen display duration, terminal motion status, location information, Bluetooth connection status, and last screen off time.

In the embodiment of the present application, in different usage scenarios, the user has different usage habits for different application application sequences, that is, the target application that is determined to have a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded is different. Therefore, The target application that has a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded can be determined according to the current usage scenario information. Exemplarily, the current application to be preloaded is Cool Dog Music. From the list of preset related applications, it can be determined that the applications that have a preset association relationship with Cool Dog Music include NetEase Cloud Music and iQiyi Video. In order to save memory Space, save system resources, and in order to better meet user needs, you can reasonably determine the target application corresponding to the current to-be-loaded application based on the current usage scenario information. For example, if the terminal is in motion at this time, you can use Netease Cloud Music as the target application with a preset association relationship with Kugou Music; if the terminal is in a static state at this time, you can use iQiyi Video as Kugou The target application for which the music is in a preset association relationship.

In an embodiment, determining a target application that is in a preset association relationship with an application to be pre-loaded according to the current use scene information includes: inputting the current use scene information and the current application to be pre-loaded, and inputting In the pre-trained associated application prediction model, a target application that has a preset association relationship with the current to-be-preloaded application is determined according to an output result of the associated application prediction model; wherein the associated application prediction model is based on In the preset historical time period, the usage rules of different applications under different historical usage scene information are trained. This setting can easily and quickly determine the target application that has a preset association relationship with the current to-be-loaded application under the current use scenario based on the pre-trained related application prediction model, and the target application obtained is more in line with user needs .

In the embodiment of the present application, the associated application prediction model can be understood as that after inputting the current usage scenario information and the current application to be preloaded, it can be quickly determined that the current usage scenario information is preset with the current application to be preloaded. Association model of the target application's learning model. The associated application prediction model may be a statistical model or a machine learning model, or a mixture of the two. The algorithm used can also include RNN, LSTM network, threshold loop unit, simple loop unit, autoencoder, decision tree, random forest, feature mean classification, classification regression tree, hidden Markov, KNN algorithm, logistic regression model, The Bayesian model, Gaussian model, KL divergence, etc. are not limited in the embodiments of the present application. Exemplarily, in a preset historical time period (such as a period of one month from the current time), the application sequence under different historical usage scenario information is used as a training sample set, and the training The sample set is trained to generate a correlation application prediction model. That is, the usage rules of different application programs under different historical usage scene information are learned in a preset historical time period to generate a related application prediction model. The obtained current usage scenario information and the current application to be preloaded are input into a related application prediction model, and the related application prediction model analyzes the current usage scenario information, and outputs a target that has a preset association relationship with the current to be preloaded application. application. This setting can pre-load the applications in the preset association relationship according to the association relationship among the applications to be preloaded in order to improve the startup speed of the applications in the preset association relationship.

In some embodiments, for each of the applications to be preloaded, determining a target application that has a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded includes: according to the application to be preloaded The corresponding startup probability is from high to low. For each to-be-pre-loaded application in the to-be-pre-loaded applications, it is determined from the to-be-loaded application that there is a preset association with the current to-be-loaded application. The target application of the relationship; pre-loading the target application after pre-loading the current to-be-loaded application includes: pre-loading the current to-be-pre-loaded application, and presetting After the duration, pre-load the target application. This setting can further improve the startup speed of applications that have a preset association relationship while saving memory space.

In the embodiment of the present application, when a target application that has a preset association relationship with the current to-be-pre-loaded application exists in the to-be-pre-loaded application, the current to-be-pre-loaded application and the current to-be-pre-loaded application are pre-loaded. Set the target application of the association relationship to preload in order. Exemplarily, the order of the startup probability corresponding to the application to be preloaded from high to low is: Taobao, WeChat, QQ, Gaode Map, Alipay, and Today's Headline. According to the above ranking, it is determined whether there is a target application in the foregoing to-be-loaded application program that has a preset association relationship with the current to-be-loaded application program. It can be understood that, first of all, in the five pre-loaded applications of WeChat, QQ, Gaode Map, Alipay, and Toutiao Today, whether there is a target application with a preset association relationship with Taobao, for example, with Taobao If the target application of the association relationship is Alipay, preload Taobao, and preload Alipay after a preset time period, such as 10s. Then determine whether there are target applications that have a preset association with WeChat among the three applications to be preloaded, such as QQ, Gaode Map and Today's Headline, and so on.

In some embodiments, pre-loading the current to-be-loaded application program includes: pre-loading an application interface corresponding to the current to-be-loaded application program based on a pre-created pre-loading active window stack, wherein the pre-loading The boundary coordinates corresponding to the loading active window stack are outside the coordinate range of the display screen; or, pre-loading the target application includes: pre-loading the target application corresponding to the target application based on a pre-created pre-load active window stack An application interface, wherein the boundary coordinates corresponding to the preloaded active window stack are outside the coordinate range of the display screen. The following description takes the preloading of the target application as an example.

In the embodiment of the present application, the active window may be understood as an independent interface that directly provides users with interaction and operation, and different terms may be used to name the interface in different operating systems. In order to facilitate understanding, the following description is made by taking an Android operating system as an example.

In the Android system, the active window is called Activity. Activity is a component responsible for interacting with the user. It provides a screen (which can be understood as a screen interface instead of a physical display screen) for the user to interactively complete a certain task. In an android application, an Activity is usually a separate screen, which can display some controls or listen to and handle user events. In the management of Activity, there are two concepts: Task (task stack) and Stack (active window stack). A Task corresponds to an application. A Task is used to store Activities. A Task can store one or more Activities, and these Activities follow the "first in, first out, last in, first out" principle. Stack is also used to manage Tasks. Generally, a Stack manages the Tasks that each Activity needs to display on a screen. A Stack can manage one or more Tasks. Of course, Stack also follows the basic management principles of the Stack. . The screens described here are not necessarily complete and independent display screens. Taking "two screens" as an example, these two screens may be just two areas in a complete display screen that independently display their respective display contents. Of course, if the terminal has two or more independent display screens, the "two screens" may also be two independent display screens.

In the Android system, multi-window mode is supported, which can include split-screen mode, picture-in-picture mode, and FreeForm. In the multi-window mode, the stack where the application is located can have its own size, which can include the upper, lower, left, and right coordinates in a coordinate system with the upper left corner of the terminal screen as the origin. For example, (a, b, c, d) generally describes a rectangular boundary, which can be expressed by the coordinates of the upper left corner and the lower right corner of the rectangle, that is, the upper left corner of the rectangle is (a, b), right The lower corner coordinate is (c, d), and such a rectangular area corresponds to the size of the Stack. The layout of the application in the stack is based on the size of the stack, which means that the application interface corresponding to the activity is displayed within the boundary of the size.

In multi-window mode, you can allow multiple applications to be visible, including both system and user visible and system only visible. Both visible to the system and the user means to be displayed on the display screen and can be seen by the user; only visible to the system means that the operating system is visible and the user is not visible, which may be obscured by the application in the foreground or as implemented in this application Show off screen.

In the embodiment of the present application, pre-loading the application interface of the target application program outside the display screen can be implemented based on the multi-window mechanism of the operating system, and the size corresponding to the application program is set outside the display screen through the multi-window mechanism to the user. It is not visible, so it will not affect the display content of the foreground application on the display screen.

Generally, in multi-window mode, there can be multiple types of stacks. For example, Home Stack represents the stack displayed by desktop applications, App Stack represents the stack displayed by third-party applications, and there can be other split-screen stacks. The contained content can be displayed on a display screen, which is collectively referred to as an application active window stack in the embodiments of the present application. In the embodiment of the present application, a preloaded active window stack (preloaded stack) is added to indicate the stack displayed by the preloaded application, and the boundary coordinates of the preloaded stack are set outside the coordinate range of the display screen, and are to be preloaded The application can be displayed on that Stack. For the Android system, based on the multi-window mechanism of the Android system, a new Stack dedicated to displaying preloaded applications can be created. In the embodiment of the present application, a new stack is created because the newly created preloaded stack can have its own size and visibility, thereby achieving preloading outside the display screen.

In the embodiment of the present application, the creation timing of the preloaded stack is not limited. The preloaded stack is set to the resident state by default before the terminal leaves the factory, that is, the preloaded stack always exists; the terminal can also be successfully opened when the terminal is powered on or the terminal is unlocked successfully. Create later; it can also be created after the application preload event is triggered (before the target application is determined) and so on. In an embodiment, pre-loading an application interface corresponding to the target application based on a pre-created pre-loaded active window stack includes: determining whether a pre-created pre-loaded active window stack exists; if not, according to the pre-built Set a rule to create a preloaded active window stack; preload an application interface corresponding to the target application based on the created preloaded active window stack. This setting can determine whether the pre-loaded stack exists after determining the target application to be pre-loaded. If it exists, it does not need to be created, and if it does not exist, it is created to save system resources. It can be understood that when the target application contains multiple, that is, when multiple applications need to be preloaded continuously in a short period of time, before the first target application starts to load, the preloading Stack has been created, then the first Before the two target applications start to load, the pre-loaded stack exists, so you don't need to make the above judgment.

In the embodiment of the present application, the specific process of the application interface corresponding to the preload target application based on the preloaded stack is not limited. For example, the application interface may be drawn and displayed based on the size of the preloaded stack.

In some embodiments, pre-loading an application interface corresponding to the target application based on a pre-created pre-loaded active window stack includes: creating a target process corresponding to the target application; in a pre-created pre-loaded active window A task stack corresponding to the target application is created in the stack; an active window corresponding to the target application is started in the task stack based on the target process; and a target application corresponding to the target application is drawn and displayed based on the started active window. Application interface. This setting can draw and display the application interface of the target application based on the preloaded active window stack outside the screen coordinate range, without interfering with the operation and display of the foreground application, ensuring system stability, and effectively improving the startup of the target application. Speed. When the target process is created, the initialization process of the target process can also be included. During the execution of the above steps, pre-loading of other resources may also be involved, such as application service startup, memory allocation, file content reading, and network data acquisition. The embodiments of this application do not limit the pre-loading process of other resources.

In some embodiments, the method further includes: sending a fake focus notification to the target application, and maintaining a continuous drawing and display update of an application interface corresponding to the target application within a preset time period based on the fake focus notification. This setting can complete the drawing and display of the application interface when the target application obtains focus and is visible to the system, improving the completion of preloading without affecting the focus of the foreground application. The focus in the embodiments of the present application is also referred to as input focus, and the fake focus and the focus corresponding to the foreground application are independent of each other. Generally, for the current Android system, the focus is unique. For example, input operations such as touch only take effect on the focus. For the input of focus information, the system and the application are consistent. Once the system changes the input focus information, it will Send information to the application that the input focus information has changed, this way to ensure that the system and application side input focus information is consistent. In the embodiment of the present application, the application side can forge the focus by separating the system side and the application side from inputting focus information. In the embodiment of the present application, the pre-loaded application forges the focus notification so that the pre-loaded application has the focus information, but the system-side focus information is still correct. In this way, the pre-loaded application can draw normally and achieve full loading. The focus exists on the system side and the application side. It can be considered as the server and the client. The system side records the application that has the focus, and the application side saves a flag to indicate whether it has focus. The timing of falsifying the input focus may be that when the Android window system adds a new window and the focus needs to be updated, a fake focus notification is generated and sent. The method of falsifying the focus may be a method of calling the client side of the window to change the focus of the window, so that the window acquires focus. In one embodiment, a fake focus notification can be sent based on the Binder mechanism. The Binder mechanism is the most commonly used method for inter-process communication of the Android system, and adopts a c / s architecture, that is, a client / service architecture.

In the embodiment of the present application, the preset time period may be designed according to actual conditions, for example, it may be within a fixed time range after starting preloading, or it may be a period from starting preloading to completing preloading. In some embodiments, the length of the preset time period includes a playing time of starting an advertisement or starting an animation in the target application. During the startup of some applications, some advertisements or animations are usually played. The duration of advertisements or animations usually ranges from 3 seconds to more than ten seconds. During the playback of advertisements or animations, the user may not be able to perform any operation, only Can wait for the playback to finish, wasting valuable time of the user. In the embodiment of the present application, it is set so that the startup advertisement or startup animation can be played out of the screen before the target application is started. When the target application is started, the main page of the application or other user-operable interface can be directly entered, so that The operational time of the target application is further advanced, reducing waiting time.

In some embodiments, after pre-loading an application interface corresponding to the target application based on a pre-created pre-loaded active window stack, the method further includes: when receiving a running instruction of the target application, loading the pre-load An application interface corresponding to the target application included in the active window stack is migrated to the display screen for display. This setting can directly migrate the already drawn application interface to the display screen for display when the target application really needs to be started, which can achieve fast switching of the application interface and improve startup speed.

In some embodiments, the migrating an application interface corresponding to the target application included in the preloaded active window stack to the display screen for display includes: The task stack corresponding to the target application is migrated to the top of the application active window stack; the size information, configuration information, and visibility of the task stack are updated to implement the application interface corresponding to the target application on the display screen display. This setting can ensure the stability of the interface migration process, and ensure that there are no screens, black screens, or slow migration speeds during the recovery process.

For some terminals, especially mobile terminals such as mobile phones and tablet computers, in order to facilitate the use of the user, the display mode of the display screen usually includes vertical screen display and horizontal screen display. Many applications use vertical screen display by default, and some The application program is displayed in a horizontal screen mode (such as some online games) by default. During the use of the terminal, some applications may switch between the horizontal and vertical screen display as the user holds the terminal. In some embodiments of the present application, a boundary coordinate corresponding to the preloaded active window stack is (H, 0, 2H, H), a coordinate system corresponding to the boundary coordinate is a system coordinate, and an origin of the system coordinate is In the upper left corner of the display screen, H is the length of the long side of the display area of the display screen. That is, the side corresponding to H is the largest side of the display area of the display screen, which is the height of the display screen when displayed in the vertical screen and the width of the display screen when displayed in the horizontal screen. This setting takes into consideration the display screen landscape, pre-loaded application landscape display, and some applications' normal display. FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a relative position relationship between a preloaded active window stack and a display screen display area according to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in FIG. 2, the display screen is in the vertical screen mode, the origin of the terminal system coordinates is the left vertex (0,0) of the display screen 201, the width direction of the display screen 201 is the X axis, and the height direction is the Y axis. The boundary coordinates corresponding to loading Stack202 are (H, 0, 2H, H), where H is the screen height, that is, the area within the solid rectangle on the left is the main screen display area, and the area within the rectangle on the right dashed line is the preload display area. FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a relative position relationship between another preloaded active window stack and a display screen display area according to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in Figure 3, the display screen is in landscape mode, the origin of the terminal system coordinates is the left vertex (0,0) of the display screen 301, the height direction of the display screen 301 is the X axis, and the width direction is the Y axis. The boundary coordinates corresponding to loading Stack202 are (H, 0, 2H, H), where H is the screen height, that is, the area within the solid rectangle on the left is the main screen display area, and the area within the rectangle on the right dashed line is the preload display area.

The reason for pre-loading the stack boundaries is as follows:

The horizontal axis of the upper left corner is H, which is to prevent the display screen (also called the home screen) from being displayed on the pre-loaded application interface when the screen is horizontal, because the home screen has a horizontal screen mode in addition to the vertical screen mode. In order to prevent part of the preloaded application from being displayed in the main screen display area, the horizontal coordinate of the upper left corner of the rectangular area corresponding to the preloaded stack is set to the screen height.

The vertical coordinate of the upper left corner is 0, so that the preloaded application can correctly calculate the height of the status bar. In order to better design the user interface (UI), the Android application will customize the top status bar. If the corresponding vertical coordinate is not equal to 0, the height of the status bar may be wrong.

The horizontal axis of the lower right corner is 2H (2 times the screen height), that is, the width of the rectangle corresponding to the preloaded stack = screen height, so that the size of the preloaded stack can include the horizontal screen application when preloaded (that is, the application interface is horizontal screen) Display mode application).

The vertical coordinate of the lower right corner is H, that is, the height of the rectangle corresponding to the pre-loaded Stack = screen height, so that the size of the pre-loaded Stack can include the vertical screen application when pre-loaded.

Based on the above reasons, the applicant set the size of the preloaded stack to (H, 0, 2H, H).

In addition, FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of an application interface migration provided by an embodiment of the present application. As shown in FIG. 4, upon receiving a running instruction of a target application, an application corresponding to the target application included in the active window stack is preloaded. The interface 401 is migrated to the display screen 201 for display. In one embodiment, the task to which the preloaded application interface belongs is migrated to the top of the application activity window Stack, and the size information, configuration information, and visibility of the task are updated to thereby apply the interface. Able to display normally on the display screen.

FIG. 5 is a schematic flowchart of another application preloading method according to an embodiment of the present application. The method includes steps 501 to 507.

In step 501, the application usage sequence and the number of occurrences corresponding to the application usage sequence within a preset time period are obtained.

The application usage sequence includes two applications that are launched in association.

For example, the preset time period can be set to the duration of one month.

In step 502, when the number of occurrences is greater than the preset number of times threshold, the application uses the sequence as an application combination in a preset association relationship, and generates a preset associated application list based on the application combination.

For example, if the application uses a sequence: Taobao → Alipay, the number of occurrences is 10 in a month, which is greater than the preset number threshold 3, then the application Taobao → Alipay can use the sequence as an application with a preset association relationship. The combination, that is, the generated preset associated application list includes the application combination Taobao → Alipay. For another example, the sequence of application use: Jingdong Mall → Suning Tesco in a month, the number of occurrences is 6 times, greater than the preset number threshold 3, you can use the sequence of Jingdong Mall → Suning Tesco as a presentation The application combination of the preset association relationship, that is, the generated preset association application list includes the application combination of Jingdong Mall → Suning Tesco.

In step 503, when it is detected that the application preloading event is triggered, the application program to be preloaded is determined.

In step 504, the preset associated application list is obtained.

The preset association application list includes multiple groups of application combinations that are in a preset association relationship.

In step 505, for each application to be preloaded in the application to be preloaded, a target application in a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded is searched from the preset associated application list.

For example, the current application to be preloaded is Taobao. Based on the preset associated application list, the target application that has a preset association relationship with Taobao can be determined as a payment package.

In step 506, the target application is pre-loaded while pre-loading the current to-be-pre-loaded application or after pre-loading the current to-be-pre-loaded application.

For example, Taobao and Alipay are preloaded at the same time, or Taobao is preloaded first, and Alipay is preloaded after a preset period of time.

In step 507, when receiving the running instruction of the application to be loaded or the target application, the to-be-loaded application or the target application is started based on the pre-loaded resource.

For example, when the user clicks the desktop icon corresponding to Taobao, he receives a Taobao running instruction, and starts Taobao based on the pre-loaded resources, which can effectively improve the startup speed of Taobao. If the user needs to call Alipay in the process of using Taobao, he can start Alipay directly based on the pre-loaded resources, or it can increase the startup speed of Alipay.

In the application preloading method provided by the embodiment of the present application, for each application to be preloaded in the application to be preloaded, a target in a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded is searched from the preset associated application list. Application, pre-load the target application while or after pre-loading the current application to be pre-loaded, to easily and quickly determine the target application that has a preset association relationship with the current application to be pre-loaded , Can better reflect the user's needs, and improve the startup speed of applications with preset associations.

FIG. 6 is a schematic flowchart of another application preloading method according to an embodiment of the present application. The method includes steps 601 to 607.

In step 601, when it is detected that the application preloading event is triggered, a preset prediction model is used to predict the application program to be preloaded and the startup probability corresponding to the application program to be preloaded.

Exemplarily, the application to be preloaded and the corresponding startup probability are: application B (30%), application J (22%), application D (6%), application F (2%), application Program A (10%), Application H (16%).

In step 602, the application programs to be preloaded are sorted in the order of the startup probability corresponding to the applications to be preloaded from high to low.

In the embodiment of the present application, the results of sorting the to-be-preloaded applications in order of the startup probability corresponding to the to-be-loaded applications are: application B, application J, application H, Application A, Application D, Application F.

In step 603, the current usage scene information is acquired.

The current usage scenario information includes at least one of the following: time information, date category, mobile data network switch status, wireless hotspot connection status, identity information of the connected wireless hotspot, previous foreground application, and earphone jack Insertion and removal status, charging status, battery power information, screen display duration, terminal motion status, location information, Bluetooth connection status, and last screen off time.

In step 604, for each to-be-pre-loaded application in the to-be-pre-loaded application, the current usage scene information and the current Preload the application and enter it into a pre-trained associated application prediction model.

The related application prediction model is trained according to usage rules of different application programs under different historical usage scene information in a preset historical time period.

In step 605, a target application that has a preset association relationship with the current to-be-loaded application is determined according to an output result of the associated application prediction model.

The target application that has a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded may also belong to one of the applications to be preloaded, or may not belong to one of the applications to be preloaded, that is, the application to be preloaded. Applications outside the program.

For example, when the target application that has a preset association relationship with the application J is the application D, the application J and the application D both belong to the application to be pre-loaded predicted by a preset prediction model. For another example, when the target application that has a preset association relationship with the application program H is the application program E, the application program H belongs to a pre-loaded application program predicted by a preset prediction model, and the application program E does not belong to a preset prediction The application to be preloaded as predicted by the model.

In step 606, an application interface corresponding to the current to-be-preloaded application program is preloaded based on a pre-created preloaded active window stack, and after a preset duration, the target is preloaded based on a pre-created preloaded active window stack. Application interface corresponding to the application.

The boundary coordinates corresponding to the preloaded active window stack are located outside the coordinate range of the display screen.

In step 607, upon receiving the running instruction of the application to be loaded or the target application, the application interface corresponding to the application to be loaded or the target application included in the preloaded active window stack is migrated to the display screen for display.

Exemplarily, after the user clicks the desktop icon corresponding to the application J, the user receives a running instruction of the application J, and migrates the application interface corresponding to the application J included in the preloaded active window stack to a display screen for display. For another example, after the user clicks the desktop icon corresponding to the application D, the user receives a running instruction of the application D, and migrates the application interface corresponding to the application D included in the preloaded active window stack to the display screen for display.

The application preloading method provided by the embodiment of the present application, in order of the startup probability corresponding to the application to be preloaded, from high to low, for each application to be preloaded in the application to be preloaded, the current usage scene information is And the current application to be preloaded, input to the pre-trained related application prediction model, and according to the output result of the related application prediction model, determine the target application that has a preset association relationship with the current to-be-loaded application, and Load the application for pre-loading, and pre-load the target application after a preset duration. Through the above technical solution, based on the pre-trained associated application prediction model, the target application that has a preset association relationship with the current to-be-loaded application under the current usage scenario can be simply and quickly determined, and the obtained target application is more relevant. It meets the needs of users and can further improve the startup speed of applications with preset association relationships.

FIG. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of an application preloading device according to an embodiment of the present application. The device may be implemented by software and / or hardware, and is generally integrated in a terminal. An application program to be started may be implemented by executing an application preloading method. Do a preload. As shown in FIG. 7, the device includes an application determination module 701 to be preloaded, a target application determination module 702, and an application preloading module 703.

The application to be preloaded determination module 701 is configured to determine an application to be preloaded when it is detected that an application preloading event is triggered.

The target application determining module 702 is configured to determine, for each of the applications to be preloaded, a target application that is in a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded.

The application preloading module 703 is configured to preload the target application program while preloading the application program to be currently preloaded or after preloading the application program to be currently preloaded.

The application preloading device provided in the embodiment of the present application, when detecting that an application preloading event is triggered, determines an application to be preloaded, and determines, for each application to be preloaded in the application to be preloaded, the current preloaded application. The target application whose pre-loaded application has a preset association relationship, while pre-loading the current to-be-pre-loaded application, or after pre-loading the current to-be-pre-loaded application, pre-load the target application . By adopting the above technical solution, pre-loading applications that have a preset association relationship at the same time or pre-loading sequentially according to the association relationship can improve the hit rate of pre-loading applications that are actually started by the user, and further improve the The startup speed of the application with the preset relationship.

In one embodiment, the target application determination module is configured to: obtain a preset associated application list; wherein the preset associated application list includes multiple groups of application combinations in a preset association relationship; Let the target application list be found in the associated application list with a preset association relationship with the current to-be-loaded application.

In an embodiment, the method for obtaining the preset associated application list includes: obtaining an application usage sequence and a number of occurrences corresponding to the application usage sequence within a preset time period; wherein the application usage sequence Including two applications launched in association; when the number of occurrences is greater than a preset number threshold, using the application sequence as an application combination in a preset association relationship, and generating an application based on the application combination The preset associated application list is described.

In an embodiment, the target application determination module includes: a scene information acquisition unit configured to acquire current usage scenario information; a target application determination unit configured to determine an application to be currently preloaded based on the current usage scenario information The program is a target application with a preset association relationship.

In one embodiment, the target application determining unit is configured to: input the current usage scene information and the current application to be preloaded into a pre-trained related application prediction model, and predict based on the related application prediction model. The output result determines a target application that has a preset association relationship with the current to-be-preloaded application program; wherein the associated application prediction model is based on the information of different application programs under different historical usage scenarios within a preset historical time period. Obtained using regular training.

In an embodiment, the use scene information includes at least one of the following: time information, date category, mobile data network switch status, wireless hotspot connection status, identity information of the connected wireless hotspot, previous foreground application, headset The jack's plugging and unplugging status, charging status, battery power information, screen display time, terminal's motion status, location information, Bluetooth connection status, and last screen off time.

In an embodiment, the target application determining module is configured to: in the order of the startup probability corresponding to the application to be preloaded from high to low, for each application to be preloaded in the application to be preloaded To determine, from the applications to be preloaded, a target application that has a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded;

The application preloading module is configured to preload the current application to be preloaded, and preload the target application after a preset duration.

In an embodiment, pre-loading the current to-be-loaded application program includes pre-loading an application interface corresponding to the current to-be-loaded application program based on a pre-created pre-loading active window stack, wherein the The boundary coordinates corresponding to the loading active window stack are outside the coordinate range of the display screen; or the preloading the target application includes: preloading the target application corresponding to the target application based on a pre-created preloading active window stack. An application interface, wherein the boundary coordinates corresponding to the preloaded active window stack are outside the coordinate range of the display screen.

An embodiment of the present application further provides a storage medium containing computer-executable instructions. When the computer-executable instructions are executed by a computer processor, the method is configured to perform an application preloading method. The method includes: detecting an application preloading event. When triggered, determine the application to be preloaded; for each of the applications to be preloaded, determine a target application that has a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded; in While pre-loading the current to-be-loaded application program, or after pre-loading the current to-be-loaded application program, pre-load the target application program.

Storage medium-any of various types of memory devices or storage devices. The term "storage medium" is intended to include: installation media, such as Compact Read-Only Memory (CD-ROM), floppy disks, or magnetic tape devices; computer system memory or random access memory, such as dynamic random access memory ( Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), Double Data Rate Random Access Memory (DDRRAM), Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), Extended Data Output Random Access (Extended Data Output Output) Random Access Memory (EDORAM), Rambus RAM, etc .; non-volatile memory, such as flash memory, magnetic media (such as hard disk or optical storage); registers or other similar types of memory elements. The storage medium may further include other types of memory or a combination thereof. In addition, the storage medium may be located in a first computer system in which the program is executed, or may be located in a different second computer system connected to the first computer system through a network such as the Internet. The second computer system may provide program instructions to the first computer for execution. The term "storage medium" may include two or more storage media that may reside in different locations (e.g., in different computer systems connected through a network). The storage medium may store program instructions (for example, embodied as a computer program) executable by one or more processors.

Certainly, a storage medium including computer-executable instructions provided in the embodiments of the present application is not limited to the application preloading operation described above, and may also execute the application provided by any embodiment of the present application Related operations in the preload method.

The embodiment of the present application provides a terminal, and the terminal may integrate the application preloading device provided by the embodiment of the present application. FIG. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present application. The terminal 800 may include: a memory 801, a processor 802, and a computer program stored in the memory and executable by the processor. When the processor 802 executes the computer program, the application program preloading according to the embodiment of the present application is implemented. method.

The terminal provided in the embodiment of the present application simultaneously preloads the applications in a preset association relationship or sequentially preloads according to the association relationship, which can improve the hit rate of preloading the applications that are actually started by the user, and further improve Speed of launching applications in preset associations.

FIG. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of another terminal according to an embodiment of the present application. The terminal may include: a housing (not shown in the figure), a memory 901, a central processing unit (CPU) 902 (also referred to as processing). (Hereinafter referred to as CPU), a circuit board (not shown in the figure) and a power supply circuit (not shown in the figure). The circuit board is disposed in a space surrounded by the housing; the CPU 902 and the memory 901 are disposed on the circuit board; and the power supply circuit is configured to supply power to various circuits or devices of the terminal; The memory 901 is configured to store executable program code; the CPU 902 runs a computer program corresponding to the executable program code by reading the executable program code stored in the memory 901 to implement the following steps: In the case where it is detected that the application preload event is triggered, determine the application to be preloaded; for each of the applications to be preloaded, determine to have a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded The target application program; while pre-loading the current to-be-loaded application program, or after pre-loading the current to-be-loaded application program, pre-loading the target application program.

The terminal further includes: a peripheral interface 903, a radio frequency (RF) circuit 905, an audio circuit 906, a speaker 911, a power management chip 908, an input / output (I / O) subsystem 909, and other The input / control device 910, the touch screen 912, other input / control devices 910, and the external port 904, these components communicate through one or more communication buses or signal lines 907.

It should be understood that the illustrated terminal 900 is only an example of the terminal, and the terminal 900 may have more or fewer components than those shown in the figure, may combine two or more components, or may have Different component configurations. The various components shown in the figures can be implemented in hardware, software, or a combination of hardware and software, including one or more signal processing and / or application specific integrated circuits.

The following describes the terminal used for application preloading provided in this embodiment in detail. The terminal uses a mobile phone as an example.

Memory 901, which can be accessed by CPU902, peripheral interface 903, etc. The memory 901 can include high-speed random access memory, and can also include non-volatile memory, such as one or more disk storage devices, flash memory devices , Or other volatile solid-state storage devices.

A peripheral interface 903, which can connect input and output peripherals of the device to the CPU 902 and the memory 901.

I / O subsystem 909, which can connect input / output peripherals on the device, such as touch screen 912 and other input / control devices 910, to peripheral interface 903. The I / O subsystem 909 may include a display controller 9091 and one or more input controllers 9092 configured to control other input / control devices 910. Among them, one or more input controllers 9092 receive electrical signals from or send electrical signals to other input / control devices 910. Other input / control devices 910 may include physical buttons (press buttons, rocker buttons, etc.) ), Dial, slide switch, joystick, click wheel. It is worth noting that the input controller 9092 may be connected to any of the following: a keyboard, an infrared port, a universal serial bus (Universal Serial Bus, USB) interface, and a pointing device such as a mouse.

A touch screen 912, which is an input interface and an output interface between a user terminal and a user, and displays a visual output to the user. The visual output may include graphics, text, icons, videos, and the like.

The display controller 9091 in the I / O subsystem 909 receives an electric signal from the touch screen 912 or sends an electric signal to the touch screen 912. The touch screen 912 detects a contact on the touch screen, and the display controller 9091 converts the detected contact into interaction with a user interface object displayed on the touch screen 912, that is, realizes human-computer interaction. The user interface object displayed on the touch screen 912 may be running Icons for games, icons connected to the appropriate network, etc. It is worth noting that the device may also include a light mouse, which is a touch-sensitive surface that does not display visual output, or an extension of the touch-sensitive surface formed by a touch screen.

The RF circuit 905 is mainly configured to establish communication between a mobile phone and a wireless network (that is, a network side), and realize data reception and transmission of the mobile phone and the wireless network. For example, send and receive text messages, e-mail, and so on. In an embodiment, the RF circuit 905 receives and sends RF signals. The RF signals are also referred to as electromagnetic signals. The RF circuit 905 converts electrical signals into electromagnetic signals or converts electromagnetic signals into electrical signals, and communicates with the communication network through the electromagnetic signals. As well as other devices. RF circuit 905 may include known circuits configured to perform these functions, including but not limited to antenna systems, RF transceivers, one or more amplifiers, tuners, one or more oscillators, digital signal processors, codecs (COder-DECoder, CODEC) chipset, Subscriber Identity Module (SIM), and so on.

The audio circuit 906 is mainly configured to receive audio data from the peripheral interface 903, convert the audio data into an electrical signal, and send the electrical signal to the speaker 911.

The speaker 911 is configured to restore a voice signal received by the mobile phone from the wireless network through the RF circuit 905 to a sound and play the sound to a user.

The power management chip 908 is configured to provide power and power management for the hardware connected to the CPU 902, the I / O subsystem, and peripheral interfaces.

The application preloading device, the storage medium, and the terminal provided in the foregoing embodiments can execute the application preloading method provided by any embodiment of the present application, and have corresponding function modules for executing the method. For technical details not described in detail in the foregoing embodiments, reference may be made to an application preloading method provided in any embodiment of the present application.

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1. An application preloading method includes:

   Determine the application to be preloaded when it is detected that the application preload event is triggered;

   For each of the applications to be preloaded, determining a target application that has a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded;

   While pre-loading the current to-be-loaded application program, or after pre-loading the current to-be-loaded application program, pre-load the target application program.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein determining the target application in a preset association relationship with the current to-be-loaded application comprises:

   Obtaining a preset associated application list, where the preset associated application list includes multiple groups of application combinations in a preset associated relationship;

   Find a target application that has a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded from the preset associated application list.
3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the method for obtaining the preset associated application list comprises:

   Obtaining an application usage sequence within a preset time period and the number of occurrences corresponding to the application usage sequence; wherein the application usage sequence includes two applications that are started in association;

   When the number of occurrences is greater than a preset number of times threshold, the application uses the sequence as an application combination in a preset association relationship, and generates the preset associated application list based on the application combination.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein determining the target application in a preset association relationship with the current to-be-loaded application comprises:

   Get the current usage scene information;

   According to the current usage scenario information, a target application that has a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded is determined.
5. The method according to claim 4, wherein determining a target application that has a preset association relationship with an application to be preloaded currently according to the current usage scenario information comprises:

   Inputting the current use scene information and the current application to be preloaded into a pre-trained related application prediction model, and determining to present a preset with the current to be preloaded application according to an output result of the related application prediction model The target application of the association relationship; wherein the associated application prediction model is trained according to a usage rule of different applications under different historical usage scenario information within a preset historical time period.
6. The method according to claim 4 or 5, wherein the usage scene information includes at least one of the following:

   Time information, date category, mobile data network switch status, wireless hotspot connection status, identity information of the connected wireless hotspot, previous foreground application, plug and unplug status of the headphone jack, charging status, battery power information, screen Display duration, terminal motion status, location information, Bluetooth connection status, and last screen off time.
7. The method according to claim 1, wherein, for each of the applications to be preloaded, determining a target application in a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded, comprising:

   According to the order of the startup probability corresponding to the application to be preloaded from high to low, for each application to be preloaded in the application to be preloaded, it is determined from the application to be preloaded that the current application is to be preloaded. The target application whose application is in a preset association relationship;

   After pre-loading the current to-be-loaded application, pre-loading the target application includes:

   Pre-load the current to-be-pre-loaded application, and pre-load the target application after a preset duration.
8. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

   Pre-loading the current to-be-loaded application program includes: pre-loading an application interface corresponding to the current to-be-loaded application program based on a pre-created pre-loading active window stack, where the pre-loading active window stack corresponds to Boundary coordinates are outside the coordinate range of the display screen; or

   The pre-loading the target application includes pre-loading an application interface corresponding to the target application based on a pre-created pre-loading active window stack, wherein a boundary coordinate corresponding to the pre-loading active window stack is located on a display Outside the coordinate range of the screen.
9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the pre-created pre-loaded active window stack pre-loads an application interface corresponding to the target application comprises:

   Creating a target process corresponding to the target application;

   Creating a task stack corresponding to the target application in a pre-created preloading active window stack;

   Starting an active window corresponding to the target application in the task stack based on the target process;

   An application interface corresponding to the target application is drawn and displayed based on the activated active window.
10. The method according to claim 8, wherein after pre-loading an application interface corresponding to the target application based on a pre-created pre-loaded active window stack, further comprising:

    When receiving the running instruction of the target application, the application interface corresponding to the target application included in the preloaded active window stack is migrated to the display screen for display.
11. An application preloading device includes:

    An application to be preloaded determination module, configured to determine an application to be preloaded when it is detected that an application preloading event is triggered;

    A target application determination module configured to determine, for each of the applications to be preloaded, a target application that has a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded;

    The application preloading module is configured to preload the target application program while preloading the current application program to be preloaded, or after preloading the current application program to be preloaded.
12. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the target application determination module is configured to:

    Obtaining a preset associated application list, where the preset associated application list includes multiple groups of application combinations in a preset associated relationship;

    Find a target application that has a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded from the preset associated application list.
13. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the target application determination module obtains the preset associated application list in the following manner:

    Obtaining an application usage sequence within a preset time period and the number of occurrences corresponding to the application usage sequence; wherein the application usage sequence includes two applications that are started in association;

    When the number of occurrences is greater than a preset number of times threshold, the application uses the sequence as an application combination in a preset association relationship, and generates the preset associated application list based on the application combination.
14. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the target application determination module comprises a scene information acquisition unit and a target application determination unit;

    The scene information obtaining unit is configured to obtain current use scene information;

    The target application determining unit is configured to determine a target application that has a preset association relationship with an application to be preloaded currently according to the current usage scenario information.
15. The apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the target application determination unit is configured to:

    Inputting the current use scene information and the current application to be preloaded into a pre-trained related application prediction model, and determining to present a preset with the current to be preloaded application according to an output result of the related application prediction model The target application of the association relationship; wherein the associated application prediction model is trained according to a usage rule of different applications under different historical usage scenario information within a preset historical time period.
16. The apparatus according to claim 14 or 15, wherein the usage scene information includes at least one of the following:

    Time information, date category, mobile data network switch status, wireless hotspot connection status, identity information of the connected wireless hotspot, previous foreground application, plug and unplug status of the headphone jack, charging status, battery power information, screen Display duration, terminal motion status, location information, Bluetooth connection status, and last screen off time.
17. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein:

    The target application determination module is configured to: in the order of the startup probability corresponding to the application to be preloaded from high to low, for each application to be preloaded in the application to be preloaded, from the to be preloaded Determining a target application in the application that has a preset association relationship with the current application to be preloaded;

    The application preloading module is configured to preload the current to-be-preloaded application program, and preload the target application program after a preset period of time.
18. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the application preloading module is configured to preload the current to-be-preloaded application program in the following manner: preload the current to-be-loaded based on a pre-created preloading active window stack. An application interface corresponding to a preloaded application, wherein the boundary coordinates corresponding to the preloaded active window stack are outside the coordinate range of the display screen; or

    The application preloading module is configured to preload the target application in the following manner: preload an application interface corresponding to the target application based on a pre-created preload active window stack, wherein the preload active window The boundary coordinates of the stack are outside the coordinate range of the display screen.
19. A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program that, when executed by a processor, implements the method for preloading an application program according to any one of claims 1-10.
20. A terminal includes a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored on the memory and executable by the processor. When the processor executes the computer program, the application program according to any one of claims 1 to 10 is preloaded. method.

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