WO2020248234A1

WO2020248234A1 - Terminal operation method, terminal, and apparatus having storage function

Info

Publication number: WO2020248234A1
Application number: PCT/CN2019/091304
Authority: WO
Inventors: 周宇坤; 徐益海
Original assignee: 海能达通信股份有限公司
Priority date: 2019-06-14
Filing date: 2019-06-14
Publication date: 2020-12-17

Abstract

Disclosed are a terminal operation method, a terminal, and an apparatus having a storage function. The terminal comprises a touch screen and a physical button. The terminal operation method comprises: when a terminal receives a trigger instruction for a physical button, detect the currently displayed application interface; obtain a touch signal for the application interface corresponding to the trigger instruction, and send the touch signal to an application; the application performs an operation corresponding to the touch signal. By means of the method, the adaptation of the application to a physical button can be implemented without relying on an application developer.

Description

Terminal operation method, terminal and device with storage function

【Technical Field】

This application relates to the field of terminal technology, and in particular to a method for terminal operation, a terminal, and a device with a storage function.

【Background technique】

In the field of human-computer interaction of terminal devices, touch screens have become a major trend, especially when dealing with complex applications, touch screens have very free interaction design methods. However, it is undeniable that even if there is a touch screen in some key operation areas, users still want physical buttons. This is not only to facilitate operation, but also to ensure reliable control, achieve blind operation, and prevent misoperation, because in critical emergency moments, physical buttons It is an indisputable fact that it is more reliable than a touch screen. But once there are physical buttons, the problem of application adaptation will follow, because general applications are developed in accordance with the standard Android (Android system) touch screen method, and they don’t know how to adapt to special physical buttons. Or knob. The usual approach at this time is to require the terminal manufacturer and application developer to work together to transform the application: Generally speaking, if an application is adapted to the physical buttons of a certain model, the terminal manufacturer must provide the underlying interface or protocol of the physical buttons. , And the application developer is responsible for using these interfaces or protocols to complete the adaptation process between the application and the physical buttons.

The existing method of responding to physical buttons for the Android system is: the application pre-binds the key value of the physical button; when the physical button is pressed, the system will trigger a broadcast event and broadcast its key value; when the application listens to the broadcast and finds When it happens to be the key value bound by itself, the application responds accordingly. In this existing method, the application actively monitoring the messages of the physical button is a key part of achieving adaptation. If the application does not actively monitor, it does not know that a certain physical button has been triggered, and therefore cannot respond, that is, The application has an active "shielding" function for physical buttons, and it can choose to monitor or not monitor. At the same time, it is also required that the application must know the special key value triggered by the physical button in advance to monitor. Therefore, to adapt to the physical button of a certain model, the terminal manufacturer and the application developer need to communicate in advance. This is for open Android system development. At the beginning of the design, it is difficult for application developers to imagine what special models will be adapted, so it is normal for general application developers not to bind keys in advance and not to monitor.

In other words, in order to adapt to different models, the application developer must pay an extra price. If an application is already formed, the application developer must modify its software version and add new monitoring code. It is not realistic for actual business operations. On the other hand, even if the application is modified, it can only adapt to existing models, and cannot adapt to future models in advance, because the interactive operations brought by future models are unknown, and the application developer cannot predict the emergence of new models in advance. Physical buttons or knobs. At the same time, when more and more applications are introduced, how many application developers are willing to modify the application to adapt to a physical button requires a question mark. Therefore, the current practice of terminal manufacturers is relatively weak in this regard.

[Content of the invention]

In view of this, the present application provides a method for terminal operation, a terminal, and a device with a storage function, which can complete the adaptation of the application to the physical button without relying on the application developer.

In order to solve the above technical problems, a technical solution adopted in this application is to provide a method for terminal operation. The terminal includes a touch screen and physical buttons, wherein the method includes:

When the terminal receives the trigger instruction of the physical button, it detects the currently displayed application interface;

Acquiring the touch signal corresponding to the application interface of the trigger instruction, and sending the signal to the application;

The application performs an operation corresponding to the touch signal.

Wherein, the method further includes:

The corresponding relationship between the trigger instruction of the physical button and the touch signal of the application interface is preset and saved.

Wherein, before the acquiring the touch signal corresponding to the application interface of the trigger instruction and sending the signal to the application, the method further includes:

Determine whether the application is saved in advance;

If the judgment result is yes, execute the acquisition of the trigger instruction corresponding to the touch signal of the application interface, and send the signal to the application.

Wherein, the step of obtaining the touch signal corresponding to the application interface of the trigger instruction includes:

Determine whether the currently displayed application interface has a touch signal corresponding to the trigger instruction of the physical button;

If the judgment result is yes, execute the acquisition of the trigger instruction corresponding to the touch signal of the application interface;

If the judgment result is no, the trigger instruction of the physical button is ignored.

Wherein, the method further includes:

Pre-configure different application package names and different windows corresponding to different applications at the bottom of the system;

Configure different sub-windows corresponding to different interfaces of each application.

Wherein, the step of detecting the currently displayed application interface includes:

If the window corresponding to the application package name in the running application list is running on the front end of the system screen, the application corresponding to the window running on the front end of the system screen is the application currently displayed on the terminal;

The interface corresponding to the sub-window running in the window running on the front end of the system screen is the application interface currently displayed on the terminal.

Wherein, the physical button is a physical button, a physical knob or a physical paddle.

Wherein, the application is not an application shipped with the terminal.

In order to solve the above technical problems, another technical solution adopted in this application is to provide a terminal including a processor, a memory, a communication circuit, a touch screen, and a physical button, the processor is respectively coupled to the memory and the communication circuit , The touch screen and the physical buttons, the processor controls itself, the memory, the communication circuit, the touch screen, and the physical buttons during operation to implement the steps in the above-mentioned terminal operation method.

In order to solve the above technical problem, another technical solution adopted by this application is to provide a device with a storage function, storing program data, which can be executed to implement the steps in the above terminal operation method.

The beneficial effect of this application is: after receiving the trigger instruction of the physical button, the terminal operation method of this application searches for the touch signal of the currently displayed application interface corresponding to the trigger instruction, and sends the touch signal to the currently displayed application , The application will perform the operation corresponding to the touch signal, so that the application can be operated by operating the physical button. At the same time, there is no need to monitor the application during the whole process, and the application does not need to make any improvements. It is only responsible for receiving the touch signal. This method can complete the adaptation of the application to the physical button without the application developer improving the application.

【Explanation of drawings】

In order to more clearly describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application, the following will briefly introduce the drawings needed in the description of the embodiments. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application. For those of ordinary skill in the art, other drawings can be obtained from these drawings without creative work. among them:

FIG. 1 is a schematic flowchart of an implementation manner of a terminal operation method of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic flowchart of another embodiment of the terminal operation method of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic partial flowchart of another embodiment of the terminal operation method of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of an implementation manner of a terminal of this application;

FIG. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of a device with a storage function according to the present application.

【Detailed ways】

The following will clearly and completely describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present application. Obviously, the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, rather than all the embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present application, all other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art without creative work shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

First of all, it needs to be explained that the terminal involved in this application can be a mobile phone, walkie-talkie, computer and other electronic devices, as long as it includes a touch screen, physical buttons (distinguishable from the virtual buttons on the touch screen) and can install applications that are not shipped with the factory. , Where the user can operate the terminal by touching the touch screen. At the same time, the operating system of the terminal includes but is not limited to the Android system. The physical buttons include but are not limited to physical buttons, physical knobs, and physical paddles. The operation mode of the physical buttons is pressing operation, and the operation mode of the physical knobs is rotation operation. The mode of operation is toggling operation, for example, the mute button on some current electronic devices. All in all, this application does not limit the specific form of the physical button.

Referring to Fig. 1, Fig. 1 is a schematic flowchart of an embodiment of a terminal operation method according to the present application, and the method includes:

S110: When the terminal receives the trigger instruction of the physical button, detect the currently displayed application interface.

When the physical button of the terminal is operated by the user, a trigger instruction is generated. When the terminal receives the trigger instruction, it detects the application interface currently displayed on the terminal screen, and the currently displayed application interface is the application interface being operated by the user.

S120: Obtain a touch signal corresponding to the application interface of the trigger instruction, and send the signal to the application.

Generally speaking, a user can perform multiple touch operations on an application interface. The user touches the application interface in different areas and touch methods, and the corresponding touch signals are also different. For example, for a chat interface, the user clicks on the icons of different contacts. , You can chat with different contacts; when you click the contact icon, you can enter the chat dialog with the contact, and when you press and hold the contact icon, you can modify the notes for the contact. After obtaining the trigger instruction of the physical button in step S110, according to the preset correspondence relationship, obtain the touch signal corresponding to the trigger instruction of the currently displayed application interface, that is, it is equivalent to converting the trigger instruction of the physical button into the touch signal of the application interface , And send the touch signal to the currently displayed application.

S130: The application performs an operation corresponding to the touch signal.

Among them, the application may be an application that is shipped with the terminal, or an application that is downloaded and installed by the user after the factory is shipped. After the application receives the touch signal sent in step S120, it performs an operation corresponding to the touch signal, that is, simulates the user touching the display interface of the current application through the touch screen. For example, the currently displayed application interface is a chat interface, and when the user clicks the physical PTT (Push To Talk) button, it simulates that the user touches the virtual button on the touch screen to enable the voice sending function.

It can be seen from the above content that the user can directly simulate the application interface currently displayed through the touch screen through the physical button, and in this process, there is no need to apply a predetermined binding key value. The terminal monitors the trigger instruction of the physical button throughout the process, and according to The trigger instruction searches for the touch signal corresponding to the currently displayed application interface, which is equivalent to converting the trigger instruction of the physical button into the touch signal of the application interface by the terminal. The application only needs to receive the touch signal. Compared with the prior art, the application does not need to do Improved, that is, the adaptation of the application to the physical button can be realized without the participation of the application developer. And because there is no need to make any improvements to the application, no matter whether the terminal is an existing model or a future model, no matter how special the physical buttons are, this method can be used to complete the adaptation of the application to the physical buttons.

In another embodiment, the terminal operation method further includes:

S140: Preset and save the corresponding relationship between the trigger instruction of the physical button and the touch signal of the application interface.

The terminal manufacturer establishes a database in advance, and establishes and saves the corresponding relationship between the trigger instruction of the physical button and the touch signal of the application interface in advance. The database can be updated regularly or irregularly by the terminal manufacturer, or it can be created or updated by the user according to the configuration interface provided by the terminal manufacturer.

Specifically, on an application interface, the trigger instruction of a physical button can only correspond to one touch signal, while the touch signals on different application interfaces can correspond to the trigger instruction of the same physical button, that is, through the same physical button Can operate different application interfaces.

By setting the corresponding relationship in advance, no matter what application the terminal downloads, as long as the trigger instruction of the physical button corresponding to the touch signal of the application is preset, the application can be adapted to the physical button to realize the operation of the application through the physical button.

At the same time, by pre-setting the corresponding relationship, the touch signal that can be generated by some relatively complex combined operations in the prior art can correspond to the trigger instruction of a simple physical button, that is, in the prior art, the user may need at least two fingers to touch the touch screen in combination. For the completed operation, in this application, only one finger is needed to trigger the physical button, which can reduce misoperation, improve the reliability of the operation, and realize blind operation.

Among them, the physical buttons in this application can be physical buttons that are commonly defined by the system, such as volume adjustment keys, unlock keys, return keys, etc., or they can be physical buttons that have not been commonly defined by the system, such as special ones developed by the terminal manufacturer. For an open and general system, such as an open Android system, the special physical button developed by the terminal manufacturer itself may not be recognized by the general system when it is triggered.

Through the above steps, as long as the trigger instruction of the physical button is saved in advance and the touch signal of the corresponding application interface has been set, the operation application can be realized by triggering the physical button.

Referring to Figure 2, Figure 2 is a schematic flowchart of the terminal operation method of the present application in this embodiment. In this embodiment, the method specifically includes:

S210: When the terminal receives the trigger instruction of the physical button, detect the currently displayed application interface. Step S210 corresponds to the same as step S110. For details, please refer to the above-mentioned embodiment, which will not be repeated here.

S220: Determine whether the application is saved in advance.

Specifically, it is determined whether the currently displayed application is saved in the database in advance. If it is saved in the database in advance, it indicates that there may be a touch signal corresponding to the received trigger instruction of the physical button on the currently displayed application interface, and enter In step S230, if the judgment result is no, it indicates that the trigger instruction of the physical button corresponding to the currently displayed application has not been set, and the application cannot be operated by the trigger instruction of the physical button, then continue to determine whether the trigger instruction of the physical button is A trigger command that is commonly defined by the terminal system, such as a volume adjustment command, if the trigger command of the physical button is not a commonly defined trigger command, the trigger command of the physical button can be ignored.

S230: If the judgment result is yes, obtain the touch signal corresponding to the application interface of the trigger instruction, and send the signal to the application.

In an application scenario, although the currently displayed application is saved in advance, it does not indicate that the currently displayed application interface must have a touch signal corresponding to the trigger instruction of the physical button. Therefore, in this application scenario, step S230 specifically includes:

S231: Determine whether there is a touch signal corresponding to the trigger instruction of the physical button in the currently displayed application interface.

It is judged whether there is a touch signal belonging to the currently displayed application interface corresponding to the trigger instruction of the physical button in the database, if there is, then step S232 is entered, otherwise step S233 is entered.

S232: Execute to obtain the touch signal of the application interface corresponding to the trigger instruction.

According to the preset correspondence in the database, the touch signal of the application interface corresponding to the trigger instruction of the physical button is obtained, that is, the trigger instruction of the physical button is converted into the touch signal of the application interface, and step S240 is entered.

S233: Ignore the trigger instruction of the physical button.

If there is no touch signal corresponding to the trigger instruction of the physical button in the currently displayed application interface, the trigger instruction is ignored.

S240: The application performs an operation corresponding to the touch signal. Step S240 is the same or similar to step S130. For details, please refer to the above-mentioned embodiment, which will not be repeated here.

Referring to FIG. 3, FIG. 3 is a schematic partial flowchart of another embodiment of the terminal operation method of the present application. Different from the foregoing embodiment, in this embodiment, the method further includes:

S310: Pre-configure different application package names and different windows corresponding to different applications at the bottom of the system.

S320: Configure different sub-windows corresponding to different interfaces of each application.

Through step S310 and step S320, an application corresponds to an application package name and a main window, and at the same time, a main window corresponds to a different sub-window, and the different sub-window corresponds to an application interface that is not used by the application. Optionally, a window list and a sub-window list can also be formed at the same time.

In this embodiment, the step of detecting the currently displayed application interface includes:

If the window corresponding to the application package name in the running application list runs on the front end of the system screen, the application corresponding to the window running on the front end of the system screen is the application currently displayed on the terminal.

The application package name in the running application list indicates that the application corresponding to the application package name is running, and the running includes running in the foreground and running in the background. If the window corresponding to the application package name in the application list is running on the front of the system screen, it indicates that the application corresponding to the window is an application running in the foreground of the terminal, that is, the application currently displayed on the terminal, and then the window running on the front of the system screen The interface corresponding to the child window running in the main window is the currently displayed application interface, that is, the application interface corresponding to the child window running in the main window is the displayed application interface, that is, by searching for the main window and The sub-window running in the main window can detect the currently displayed application interface, which facilitates the subsequent search for the touch signal corresponding to the trigger instruction of the physical button on the application interface.

Referring to FIG. 4, FIG. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of the terminal of the present application. In this embodiment, the terminal 40 includes a processor 401, a memory 402, a communication circuit 403, a touch screen 404, and a physical button 405. The processor 401 is respectively coupled to The memory 402, the communication circuit 403, the touch screen 404, and the physical buttons 405. The processor 401 controls itself and the memory 402, the communication circuit 403, the touch screen 404, and the physical buttons 405 during operation to implement any of the terminal operation methods in any of the above embodiments For the steps and detailed methods, please refer to the foregoing implementation manners, which will not be repeated here.

Among them, the terminal 40 may be a mobile phone, a walkie-talkie, a notebook, a tablet computer, a vehicle-mounted computer, etc., as long as it has a touch screen 404 and a physical button 405, which is not limited here. The physical button 405 may be a physical button or a physical knob. The operation mode of the physical button is a pressing operation, and the operation mode of the physical knob is a rotation operation.

Referring to FIG. 5, FIG. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of a storage function device of the present application. The storage function device 50 stores program data 501, which can be executed to implement the terminal in any of the above embodiments Steps in the method of operation. For detailed terminal operation methods, please refer to the foregoing implementation manners, which will not be repeated here.

Among them, the device 50 with a storage function may be a portable storage medium, such as a U disk, an optical disk, or a terminal, a server, and so on.

In short, different from the prior art, the terminal operation method of this application, after receiving the trigger instruction of the physical button, searches for the touch signal of the currently displayed application interface corresponding to the trigger instruction, and sends the touch signal to the current The application that is displayed, the application will perform the operation corresponding to the touch signal, so that the application can be operated by operating the physical button. At the same time, there is no need to monitor the application during the whole process, and the application does not need to make any improvements. It is only responsible for receiving the touch signal Therefore, this method can complete the adaptation of the application to the physical button without the application developer improving the application.

The above are only implementations of this application, and do not limit the scope of this application. Any equivalent structure or equivalent process transformation made by using the description and drawings of this application, or directly or indirectly applied to other related technologies In the same way, all fields are included in the scope of patent protection of this application.

Claims

A method for terminal operation, the terminal includes a touch screen and physical buttons, wherein the method includes:

When the terminal receives the trigger instruction of the physical button, it detects the currently displayed application interface;

Acquiring a touch signal corresponding to the application interface of the trigger instruction, and sending the touch signal to the application;

The application performs an operation corresponding to the touch signal.
The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

The corresponding relationship between the trigger instruction of the physical button and the touch signal of the application interface is preset and saved.
The method according to claim 2, wherein before said acquiring the touch signal corresponding to the application interface of the trigger instruction and sending the signal to the application, the method further comprises:

Determine whether the application is saved in advance;

If the judgment result is yes, execute the acquisition of the trigger instruction corresponding to the touch signal of the application interface, and send the signal to the application.
The method according to claim 3, wherein the step of obtaining a touch signal corresponding to the application interface of the trigger instruction comprises:

Determine whether the currently displayed application interface has a touch signal corresponding to the trigger instruction of the physical button;

If the judgment result is yes, execute the acquisition of the trigger instruction corresponding to the touch signal of the application interface;

If the judgment result is no, the trigger instruction of the physical button is ignored.
The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

Pre-configure different application package names and different windows corresponding to different applications at the bottom of the system;

Configure different sub-windows corresponding to different interfaces of each application.
The method according to claim 5, wherein the step of detecting the currently displayed application interface comprises:

If the window corresponding to the application package name in the running application list is running on the front end of the system screen, the application corresponding to the window running on the front end of the system screen is the application currently displayed on the terminal;

The interface corresponding to the sub-window running in the window running on the front end of the system screen is the application interface currently displayed on the terminal.
The method according to claim 1, wherein the physical button is a physical button, a physical knob, or a physical paddle.
The method according to claim 1, wherein the application is not a factory-built application of the terminal.
A terminal, which includes a processor, a memory, a communication circuit, a touch screen, and physical buttons. The processor is coupled to the memory, the communication circuit, the touch screen, and the physical buttons. During operation, the control itself, the memory, the communication circuit, the touch screen, and the physical button realize the steps in the method according to any one of claims 1-8.
A device with storage function, wherein program data is stored, and the program data can be executed to implement the steps in the method according to any one of claims 1-8.