CN112486367B

CN112486367B - Application icon management method and device

Info

Publication number: CN112486367B
Application number: CN202011364582.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 苏越之
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-11-27
Filing date: 2020-11-27
Publication date: 2022-08-16
Anticipated expiration: 2040-11-27
Also published as: CN112486367A

Abstract

The present application discloses an application icon management method and a device thereof, belonging to the technical field of communication. The method includes: when the electronic device is in an application icon to be adjusted state, receiving a first input on a first icon in a first display page, wherein the first input is used to control the first icon to display on the first moving a direction a first distance; in response to the first input, determining a target location in a second direction based on the first distance, wherein the second direction is associated with the first direction and the target location is associated with the The second distance between the first icons is greater than the first distance; the first icons are managed according to the management mode associated with the target location. The application icon management method provided by the present application can shorten the distance that the user moves the application icon in the display interface, reduce the possibility of operation failure, and improve the operation convenience of the electronic device in the application icon management process.

Description

Application icon management method and device

Technical Field

The application belongs to the technical field of communication, and particularly relates to a management method and a device of an application icon.

Background

Electronic devices such as smart phones and tablet computers can realize various functions required by people, such as conversation, web page browsing, instant chat, payment and the like, by installing application programs. With the increasing of applications in electronic devices, more and more application icons are displayed on the desktop of the electronic devices, and therefore users often need to manage the application icons on an irregular basis. For example, moving the icon position of an application, merging icons of multiple applications into the same folder, and deleting icons of applications, etc. However, at present, the application icon is generally managed by dragging the application icon to a preset position, and operation failure is easily caused in the process of dragging the application icon by a user, so that the user needs to perform repeated operation, and the convenience of managing the application icon is reduced.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application icon management method and device aims to provide the application icon management method and device, and the problem of low convenience in the existing application icon management process can be solved.

In order to solve the technical problem, the present application is implemented as follows:

in a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a method for managing an application icon, including:

receiving a first input on a first icon in a first display page under the condition that the electronic equipment is in a state that an application icon is to be adjusted, wherein the first input is used for controlling the first icon to move a first distance in a first direction;

in response to the first input, determining a target location in a second direction based on the first distance, wherein the second direction is associated with the first direction and a second distance between the target location and the first icon is greater than the first distance;

managing the first icon in a management manner associated with the target location.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an application icon management apparatus, including:

the electronic equipment comprises a first input receiving module, a first display module and a second input receiving module, wherein the first input receiving module is used for receiving a first input on a first icon in a first display page under the condition that the electronic equipment is in a state that an application icon is to be adjusted, and the first input is used for controlling the first icon to move a first distance in a first direction;

a target position determination module to determine a target position in a second direction based on the first distance in response to the first input, wherein the second direction is associated with the first direction and a second distance between the target position and the first icon is greater than the first distance;

and the icon management module is used for managing the first icon according to a management mode associated with the target position.

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

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

In a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a chip, where the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, where the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is configured to execute a program or instructions to implement the method according to the first aspect.

In this embodiment of the application, in a case where a first input for controlling a first icon in a first display page to move a first distance in a first direction is received, an electronic device may respond to the first input, determine, based on the first distance, a target position where a distance (a second distance) between the electronic device and the first icon in a second direction is greater than the first distance, and manage the first icon according to a management mode associated with the target position.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a flowchart illustrating a method for managing application icons according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic flow chart of a display interface of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 3 is a second schematic flowchart of a display interface of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 4 is a third schematic flowchart of a display interface of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 5 is a fourth flowchart of an electronic device display interface according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 6 is a fifth flowchart of a display interface of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 7 is a sixth flowchart of an electronic device display interface provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 is a seventh schematic flowchart of a display interface of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 9 is an eighth schematic flowchart of a display interface of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 10 is a ninth schematic flowchart of an electronic device display interface provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 11 is a tenth flowchart of a display interface of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 12 is an eleventh illustrative flowchart of an electronic device display interface provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 13 is a twelfth schematic flow chart diagram of a display interface of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 14 is a thirteen-flow schematic diagram of an electronic device display interface provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 15 is a fourteenth flowchart illustrating an electronic device display interface provided in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 16 is a fifteen-stage flow diagram of an electronic device display interface provided in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 17 is a sixteenth schematic flowchart of an electronic device display interface provided in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 18 is a seventeenth schematic flow chart illustrating a display interface of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 19 is an eighteenth schematic flowchart of a display interface of an electronic device provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 20 is a schematic diagram of an application icon management apparatus provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 21 is a schematic hardware structure diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 22 is a second schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present application. All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments in the present application without making any creative effort belong to the protection scope of the present application.

The terms first, second and the like in the description and in the claims of the present application are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It will be appreciated that the data so used may be interchanged under appropriate circumstances such that embodiments of the application may be practiced in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein, and that the terms "first," "second," and the like are generally used herein in a generic sense and do not limit the number of terms, e.g., the first term can be one or more than one. In addition, "and/or" in the specification and claims means at least one of connected objects, a character "/" generally means that a preceding and succeeding related objects are in an "or" relationship.

The following describes in detail a management method for application icons according to an embodiment of the present application with reference to the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments and application scenarios thereof.

Referring to fig. 1, an embodiment of the present application provides a method for managing an application icon, where the method for managing an application icon can be applied to an electronic device, and as shown in fig. 1, the method for managing an application icon includes the following steps:

step 101, receiving a first input on a first icon in a first display page under the condition that the electronic equipment is in a state that an application icon is to be adjusted, wherein the first input is used for controlling the first icon to move a first distance in a first direction;

step 102, in response to the first input, determining a target position in a second direction based on the first distance, wherein the second direction is associated with the first direction, and the second distance between the target position and the first icon is greater than the first distance;

and 103, managing the first icon according to a management mode associated with the target position.

Here, in a case where a first input for controlling the first icon in the first display page to move a first distance in the first direction is received, the electronic device may determine, in response to the first input, a target position where a distance (a second distance) between the electronic device and the first icon in the second direction is greater than the first distance based on the first distance, and manage the first icon according to a management manner associated with the target position.

In step 101, in a case that the electronic device is in a state where the application icon is to be adjusted, the electronic device may receive a first input of a user on a first icon in a first display page, where the first input is: and the input is input by the user under the condition that the management operation on the first icon is required and is used for controlling the first icon to move for a first distance in the first direction.

In the embodiment of the application, the electronic device is in the state to be adjusted of the application icon, the electronic device may enter the application management mode according to the preset input of the user, all icons of the electronic device enter the state to be adjusted in the application management mode, and in the state to be adjusted, the icons may move and be managed according to the input of the user. In the embodiments of the present application, the icons are all icons of application programs.

The preset input may be any input for instructing the electronic device to enter the application management mode, and may be at least one of a voice input, an air gesture input, a touch input, and the like.

For example, as shown in fig. 2, in a case where the electronic device displays a desktop page, if the electronic device receives a slide input of an upward slide input, which is input by a user, in a middle of a screen, the electronic device enters an application management mode, and in the application management mode, all icons of the electronic device are in a floating state, that is, a state to be adjusted, on a display page of the electronic device.

In addition, the first display page is a page currently displayed by the electronic device, and the first display page may be any page including at least one icon.

For example, a display page 1, a display page 2, and a display page 3 are preset in the electronic device, and at least one icon is set in each of the 3 display pages, the display page 1 is a first page, the display page 3 is a last page, and the display page 2 is a middle page, and the electronic device can switch a currently displayed page to any one of the display pages 1 to 3 according to an input of a user, and if the currently displayed page is the display page 1, the first display surface is the display page 1, and so on.

In the embodiment of the present application, the first input may be any input for controlling the icon (i.e., the first icon) in the first display page to move in the first direction, and may be at least one of a voice input, an air gesture input, a touch input, and the like.

For example, the first input may be a touch input in which the user continuously presses the first icon and drags the icon (i.e., the first icon) to move to the left.

It should be noted that the first icon may be at least one icon in a currently displayed page, that is, the first displayed page. For example, it may be an icon; alternatively, the first icon may be a plurality of icons when a plurality of fingers of the user control the plurality of icons to move in the first direction for a certain distance, and the like.

In addition, the first direction may be any direction, such as a left direction, a right direction, an upward direction, a downward direction, or any other direction with any angle; and the first distance is a moving distance of the first icon in a first direction.

In step 102, after the electronic device receives the first input, the electronic device may determine, in response to the first input, a target position corresponding to a first distance in a second direction associated with the first direction, where a distance between the target position and the first icon (i.e., a second distance) is greater than the first distance.

In the embodiment of the present application, the second direction and the first direction may be opposite to the first direction; alternatively, the second direction may be a direction having a preset association relationship with the first direction, for example, a preset association between a left direction and a downward direction, a preset association between a right direction and an upward direction, and the like.

In addition, the determining of the target position in the second direction based on the first distance may be determining a position corresponding to the first distance in the second direction as the target position based on a preset rule, for example, calculating a second distance using the first distance as an input amount according to a preset calculation formula, and determining a position apart from the first icon by the second distance in the second direction as the target position.

Alternatively, the electronic device may directly or indirectly preset a correspondence between a movement distance in the first direction and a position, the target position may be determined based on the first distance, and the position having the preset correspondence with the first distance may be determined as the target position.

Or, preset intervals may be set in the electronic device, and the preset intervals of different numbers correspond to different icon positions located behind the icon position where the first icon is located in the second direction. The icon position is a position which can be used for setting an icon in the icon page, and the icon can be set at the icon position or can be vacant. For example, 24 icon positions are arranged in a display page of a 24-grid, and each icon position can be used for arranging an icon.

Specifically, the first distance is a sum of N preset distances, the sum of the N preset distances corresponds to an nth icon position which can be arranged behind the first icon in the second direction, and N is a positive integer;

the determining, in response to the first input, a target location in a second direction based on a first distance comprises:

and determining a target position based on the Nth icon position.

Here, because each preset interval has preset corresponding icon position, through controlling first icon and predetermine the interval removal in the difference, can realize indirect adjustment and carry out the management mode managed to first icon, and make and have the hierarchy sense in the removal process, not only can promote the simple operation nature, can also promote user experience effect.

Wherein the sum of the N preset spacings corresponds to the nth icon position arranged after the first icon in the second direction, it can be understood that: it is assumed that an infinite number of icon positions may be arranged in the second direction from the first icon, and an icon position corresponding to a sum of nth preset pitches is an nth icon position, and the nth icon position may be an icon position actually existing in the first display page or an icon position virtually not existing in the first display page.

For example, as shown in fig. 3, if the icon 31 (i.e., the first icon) is moved to the left by 1 dotted line position (i.e., the first distance includes the sum of N preset intervals, and N is 1), and 2 icon positions are provided in the display page of the currently displayed screen 0 (i.e., the first display page) in the rightward direction after the first icon, the icon position 32 is an icon position corresponding to the first distance (i.e., the nth icon position); if the icon 31 is moved to the left by 3 dotted line positions, since the 3 rd icon position is not set behind the first icon in the currently displayed page, the icon position corresponding to the first distance is the icon position which is virtually set in the left direction and is not located in the currently displayed page.

The sizes of the different pitches between the N preset pitches may be the same or different, and are not limited herein.

In the embodiment of the present application, the determining of the target position based on the nth icon position may be determining the nth icon position as the target position, or determining an icon position or a non-icon position associated with the nth icon position as the target position.

Specifically, the determining the target position based on the nth icon position may include any one of the following:

determining the Nth icon position as a target position under the condition that the Nth icon position is located at the icon position in the first display page;

if M icon positions are arranged behind the first icon in the first display page in the second direction, determining positions except the icon positions of the first display page as target positions, wherein M is a natural number smaller than or equal to N.

Here, as to whether the nth icon position is the icon position in the first display page, a rule for determining the target position is set, so that the manner of determining the target position based on the nth icon position is more reasonable and flexible.

And the electronic equipment can determine the Nth icon position as the target position under the condition that the Nth icon position is located at the icon position of the first display page. For example, as shown in fig. 3, in a case where the user moves the icon 31 to the left by 1 dotted line position (i.e., 1 preset interval), the electronic device may determine that the 1 st icon position 32, which is arranged after the icon 31 in the right direction in the currently displayed page, is determined as the above-mentioned target position.

It should be noted that, in the process of moving the first icon, an indication identifier may be displayed in the current display interface, where the indication identifier is used to indicate the target icon, so as to improve the prompt effect of the electronic device. For example, as shown in fig. 3, in the process of moving the icon 31, the target icon determined by the current moving distance may be indicated by an arc-shaped arrow, such as when moving the icon 31 to 1 dotted line position, the arc-shaped arrow points to the icon 32; and moving icon 31 to 2 dashed line positions as in fig. 4, the curved arrow points to icon 33, thereby creating a reverse ejection effect.

In this embodiment of the application, in a case that the nth icon position does not exist in the first display interface, that is, only M icon positions are located after the first icon in the first display page in the second direction, the electronic device may determine the target position outside the icon position of the first display page.

The determining of the target position in addition to the icon position of the first display page may be determining a non-icon position (i.e., a position not used for setting an icon) in the first display page as the target position. For example, the target position may be a position in a preset area at the top or bottom of the screen.

Alternatively, the target position may be determined in addition to the icon position on the first display page, and the icon position on a second display page other than the first display page may be determined as the target position.

For example, as shown in fig. 5, when the user moves the icon 51 to the right (i.e., the first direction) by 4 dashed positions (i.e., the first distance includes 4 preset intervals), and there are only 3 icon positions (i.e., M icon positions) in the left direction (i.e., the second direction associated with the first direction) in the currently displayed page, the electronic device may determine the icon positions in another displayed page (i.e., the second displayed page) as the target positions, i.e., as shown in fig. 6, the arc-shaped arrows point within the dashed area 61 for identifying the determined target positions in the other displayed page.

In this embodiment of the application, the second display page may be any display page for displaying an icon in the electronic device except for the first display page, and may be a display page adjacent to the first display page, or any display page specified in advance.

Specifically, the determining, as the target position, a position other than the position of the icon on the first display page includes:

determining a target icon position in a second display page as the target position, wherein the second display page is an ith display page located before the first display page in a third direction, the third direction is opposite to the second direction, and i is a positive integer.

Therefore, the electronic equipment can manage the icons in the current display page on other display pages, and convenience of managing the icons by the electronic equipment is further improved.

For example, if the icon 51 shown in fig. 5 is moved to the right (i.e., the first direction) by 4 preset intervals, since there are only 3 icon positions behind the icon 91 in the left direction (the second direction) in the display page (the first display page) of the currently displayed screen 0, and when the display page is slid in the right direction (i.e., the third direction) for switching, the display page (i.e., the second display page) of the screen 1 shown in fig. 7 is located in the first 1 display pages of the display page of the screen 0, and the display page of the screen 1 has 4 icon positions in the left direction, the electronic device may determine the icon position where the icon 71 in the display page of the screen 1 is located as the target position; similarly, if the icon 51 is moved to the right for 6 preset intervals, the electronic device determines the icon position in the display page located before the display page of the screen 1 in the right direction as the target position, and so on, which is not described herein again.

The target icon position may be any icon position in the ith display page. Specifically, the target icon position may include any one of:

a preset icon position in a 1 st display page before the first display page in the third direction, namely i is 1 and the target icon position is preset;

and a Kth icon position in the ith display page in the second direction, wherein the K, the M and j display pages have the sum of the number of the icon positions in the second direction, the j display pages are display pages positioned between the first display page and the ith display page in the third direction, j is a natural number, and K is a positive integer.

Here, when the icon position corresponding to the first distance for moving the first icon does not exist on the current display page, the electronic device may determine a preset icon position in a 1 st display page located before the first display page in the third direction as the target position, or may also determine an icon position (i.e., a kth icon position) corresponding to the first distance on another display page (i.e., an ith display page) as the target position, so that the electronic device may determine the target position in various ways, and may meet the requirements of different users.

The electronic device may determine a preset icon position in a 1 st display page located before the first display page in the third direction as the target position. For example, as shown in fig. 5, if the user moves the icon 51 by 4 dotted line positions in the right direction, the electronic device may determine a preset icon position located in the first 1 display pages of the current display page in the right direction as the target position, specifically, may determine an empty icon position as the target icon position in the case where there is an empty icon position in the first 1 display pages, such as an icon position 81 in the display page of the screen 1 in fig. 8; and in the case where there is no empty icon position, the last icon position on the left screen (i.e., the icon position on which the icon is placed) is determined as the target position.

In addition, the electronic device may determine an icon position corresponding to the first distance (i.e., a K-th icon position) in another display page as the target position. For example, if the user moves the icon 51 shown in fig. 5 to the right by 10 dotted line positions (i.e., the first distance includes 10 preset intervals), and there are only 3 icon positions (i.e., M icon positions) located after the icon 51 in the left direction in the current displayed page, and there are only 4 icon positions (i.e., the sum of the numbers of icon positions that j displayed pages have in the second direction) in the left direction in the 1 st displayed page (i.e., j ═ 1) located before the current displayed page in the right direction, the electronic device determines the 3 rd icon position (i.e., the K-th icon position) in the left direction of the 2 nd displayed page (i.e., i ═ 2) located before the current displayed page in the right direction as the target position.

Of course, the second display page may be a preset display page. Specifically, the determining, as the target position, a position other than the icon position of the first display page includes:

and under the condition that the second direction is a target preset direction, determining a preset icon position in the first display page or the last display page as a target position.

Therefore, the icon position of the first display page or the last display page can be directly determined as the target position, and the mode of determining the target position is more flexible.

The target preset direction may be any preset direction. For example, as shown in fig. 9, if the icon 91 is moved to the lower left (i.e. the target preset direction) by 3 dotted line positions, the electronic device may determine the icon position in the last display page as the target position; alternatively, if the icon 91 is moved to the upper right (i.e. the target preset direction) by 2 dotted line positions, the electronic device may determine the icon position in the first subsequent display page as the target position.

It should be noted that, in the process of moving the first icon by the user, the electronic device may continuously update the target position according to the current moving distance of the first icon, so that the electronic device may prompt the user in a preset manner to obtain the target position determined by the current moving distance.

Specifically, after determining the target position in the second direction based on the first distance, the method further includes:

and displaying the icon positioned on the target position in a preset area in the first display page.

Here, when the target position is an icon position provided with an icon, the electronic device may display the icon arranged on the target position in the preset area, so that a user can timely know the target position corresponding to the first icon moved in the process of inputting the first input, the operation of managing the first icon input by the user is more accurate, and misoperation in the icon management process is reduced.

The preset area may be any display area in the first display page, for example, the preset area may be an area beside the first icon, where the area is not located at the icon position, and during the moving of the first icon, the electronic device may set a floating frame in the area, where the icon at the target position is displayed in the floating frame.

In step 103, after the electronic device determines the target position based on the first distance, the electronic device may manage the first icon in a management manner associated with the target position.

In the embodiment of the present application, a management manner associated with the target location may be preset in the electronic device, and the management manner may be any manner capable of managing the icon of the application program, for example, any one of a delete icon, a copy icon, a move icon, and the like.

Specifically, the managing the first icon in a management manner associated with the target position includes any one of:

moving the first icon to the target location;

deleting the first icon;

displaying an application update identifier on the first icon, wherein the application update identifier is used for indicating that an application program corresponding to the first icon is in an update state.

Here, the electronic device may implement an icon management function, such as moving, deleting, or displaying an application update identifier on the first icon, based on the target location determined by the first distance, so that the electronic device may implement different management functions on the first icon when the first icon is moved by a small distance, and the electronic device is more convenient in the icon management process.

In this embodiment of the application, the moving of the first icon to the target position may be achieved by moving the first icon to an icon position corresponding to the target position when the target position is the icon position.

In a case that the first distance includes the N preset intervals, the first icon may be moved to an icon position determined based on an nth icon position, and specifically, the electronic device may move the first icon to an nth icon position in the first display page in a case that an nth icon position corresponding to the N preset intervals is an icon position of the first display page.

For example, as shown in fig. 9, if the user moves the icon 91 to the lower left corner by 1 dotted line position, the electronic device points to the icon position 92 (i.e. the target position) through the arc-shaped arrow, as shown in fig. 10, at this time, the electronic device may move the icon 91 to the icon position 92.

Or, in a case that the nth icon position is not the icon position of the first display page, the electronic device may also move the first icon to an icon position in another display page, specifically, move the first icon to a preset icon position in the 1 st display page located before the first display page in the third direction, for example, move the icon 51 in fig. 6 to an icon position 81 where the lower left corner is empty as shown in fig. 8; or, the first icon may be moved to the kth icon position in the second direction in the ith display page; alternatively, when the current display page is not the first display page or the last display page, the first icon may be directly moved to the first display page or the last display page, which is not limited herein.

It should be noted that, when the target position is the icon position, the icon may not be set on the target position, and at this time, the first icon may be directly set on the target position; alternatively, the target position may be provided with an icon, and in this case, moving the first icon to the target position may be to replace the original icon at the target position with the first icon position and move the replaced icon position to the original position of the first icon, that is, the electronic device may exchange the positions of the first icon and the icon at the target position.

Or, specifically, in a case that a second icon is displayed at the target position, the moving the first icon to the target position includes:

creating a first folder at the target location, wherein the first folder includes the first icon and the second icon.

Here, in the case where the second icon is provided at the target position, the electronic device may merge the first icon and the second icon into the same folder, so that the operation of merging the icons into the folder by the electronic device is more convenient and time-saving.

It should be noted that, after the first icon and the second icon are merged into the same folder, the electronic device may be left vacant at the icon position where the first icon is originally located.

For example, when the icon 91 is moved to the icon position 92 as shown in fig. 10, since the icon is provided on the icon position 92, the icon 91 and the icon provided on the icon position 92 can be merged into the same folder as shown in fig. 11.

Of course, in the case where there is no icon in the target location, the electronic device may directly move the first icon to the target location. For example, as shown in fig. 12, the user moves the icon 121 to the upper right by 1 dotted line position, the target position is the icon position 122 indicated by the arc-shaped arrow, and the icon position 122 is not provided with an icon, at this time, the electronic device may display a dotted line frame in a blank of the icon position 122, and display the icon 121 in the dotted line frame when the user's finger leaves the screen, that is, move the icon 121 directly to the icon position 122, and after moving the icon 121, the original position of the icon 121 is left as shown in fig. 13.

In this embodiment of the application, the electronic device may delete the first icon according to a management manner indicated by the target location, or display an application update identifier on the first icon display.

The management manner indicated by the target position may be preset according to a display area where the target position is located, and specifically, determining a position other than the icon position of the first display page as the target position includes:

determining a target position in a first display area or a second display area in the first display page, wherein the first display area is preset and is used for indicating a deletion icon; the second display area is preset and is used for indicating that an application update identifier is displayed on an icon.

In this way, the management function indicated by the display area in the first display page can be preset in the electronic device, so that the deletion of the icon or the update of the application program can be realized more conveniently.

For example, as shown in fig. 14, the user moves the icon 141 downward by 6 dotted line positions, the electronic device determines the target position in the display area 142 indicated by the arc arrow shown in fig. 15, the display area 142 is used for indicating deletion of the icon, at this time, the electronic device displays a selection box for confirming deletion, and if the user inputs an input for indicating deletion determination based on the selection box, the electronic device deletes the icon 141, as shown in fig. 16; alternatively, as shown in fig. 17, the user moves the icon 171 up by 4 dotted line positions, the electronic device determines the target position in the display area 172 indicated by the arc arrow shown in fig. 18, and the display area 172 is used to indicate that the application update identifier is displayed on the icon, at this time, after the user releases his hand, the electronic device displays the application update identifier on the icon 171, and displays "update" on the icon 171 as shown in fig. 19, and updates the application program corresponding to the icon 171.

It should be noted that, the deleting of the first icon may be to remove only the first icon from a display page of the electronic device; or, not only the first icon may be removed from the display page of the electronic device, but also the application program corresponding to the first icon may be uninstalled.

In addition, the application update identifier may be any identifier that can be used to identify that the application program corresponding to the first icon is updated, and specifically, includes displaying at least one of a preset color, a preset text, a preset pattern, and a preset icon size.

In the embodiment of the present application, the management of the first icon by the electronic device is not limited to the management manner associated with the target location, and may be other management, for example, closing the background of the application corresponding to the first icon.

Specifically, the method further comprises:

receiving a second input on the first icon if the first input is received, wherein the second input is used for controlling the first icon to move in a fourth direction, and the fourth direction is opposite to the first direction;

and responding to the first input and the second input, and closing the background process of the application program corresponding to the first icon.

Here, the electronic device may respond to the first input and the second input that move the first icon in opposite directions at the same time, and close the background of the application program corresponding to the first icon, so that the operation mode of closing the background process by the electronic device is convenient and time-saving.

For example, when the user inputs a left-handed finger pointing to a left-pulled icon and a right-handed finger pointing to a right-pulled icon at the same time, the electronic device may close the background process of the application program corresponding to the icon.

In the management method of the application icon provided in the embodiment of the present application, the execution subject may be a management apparatus of the application icon, or a control module of the method for managing the application icon in the management apparatus of the application icon. In the embodiment of the present application, a method for executing management of an application icon by using a management apparatus for an application icon is taken as an example, and an apparatus for managing an application icon provided in the embodiment of the present application is described.

Referring to fig. 20, an embodiment of the present application provides an application icon management apparatus, as shown in fig. 20, the application icon management apparatus 2000 includes:

a first input receiving module 2001, configured to receive a first input on a first icon in a first display page when the electronic device is in a state where an application icon is to be adjusted, where the first input is used to control the first icon to move a first distance in a first direction;

a target position determination module 2002 for determining a target position in a second direction based on the first distance in response to the first input, wherein the second direction is associated with the first direction, and the second distance between the target position and the first icon is greater than the first distance;

an icon management module 2003 for managing the first icon in a management manner associated with the target location.

Optionally, the icon management module 2003 is specifically configured to any one of:

moving the first icon to the target position;

deleting the first icon;

Optionally, the first distance is a sum of N preset distances, the sum of the N preset distances corresponds to an nth icon position that may be arranged behind the first icon in the second direction, and N is a positive integer;

the target location determining module 2002 is specifically configured to:

and determining a target position based on the Nth icon position.

Optionally, the target position determining module 2002 is specifically configured to:

determining the Nth icon position as a target position under the condition that the Nth icon position is the icon position of the first display page;

if M icon positions are arranged behind the first icon in the first display page in the second direction, determining positions except the icon positions of the first display page as target positions, wherein M is a natural number smaller than N.

Optionally, the target icon position includes any one of:

the preset icon position is located in the 1 st display page before the first display page in the third direction;

determining a target position in a first display area or a second display area in the first display page, wherein the first display area is preset and is used for indicating a deletion icon; the second display area is preset and is used for indicating that the application update identification is displayed on the icon.

Optionally, in a case that a second icon is displayed at the target position, the icon management module 2003 is specifically configured to:

Optionally, the apparatus 2000 further comprises:

and the icon display module is used for displaying the icon positioned on the target position in a preset area in the first display page.

Optionally, the apparatus 2000 further comprises:

a second input receiving module, configured to receive a second input on the first icon if the first input is received, where the second input is used to control the first icon to move in a fourth direction, and the fourth direction is opposite to the first direction;

and the background process closing module is used for responding to the first input and the second input and closing the background process of the application program corresponding to the first icon.

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

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

The management device for application icons provided in this embodiment of the application can implement each process implemented by the method embodiments of fig. 1 to 5, and is not described here again to avoid repetition.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 21, an electronic device 2100 further provided in this embodiment of the present application includes a processor 2101, a memory 2102, and a program or an instruction stored in the memory 2102 and executable on the processor 2101, where the program or the instruction is executed by the processor 2101 to implement each process of the foregoing embodiment of the management method for application icons, and may achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

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

Fig. 22 is a schematic hardware structure diagram of an electronic device implementing an embodiment of the present application.

The electronic device 2200 includes, but is not limited to: radio frequency unit 2201, network module 2202, audio output unit 2203, input unit 2204, sensor 2205, display unit 2206, user input unit 2207, interface unit 2208, memory 2209, processor 2210 and the like.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the electronic device 2200 may also include a power source (e.g., a battery) for powering the various components, which may be logically coupled to the processor 2210 via a power management system to perform functions of managing charging, discharging, and power consumption via the power management system. The electronic device structure shown in fig. 22 does not constitute a limitation of the electronic device, and the electronic device may include more or less components than those shown, or combine some components, or arrange different components, and thus, the description thereof is omitted.

The user input unit 2207 is configured to receive a first input on a first icon in a first display page when the electronic device is in a state where an application icon is to be adjusted, wherein the first input is used for controlling the first icon to move a first distance in a first direction;

a processor 2210 for:

Therefore, the user only needs to move the application icon for a certain distance to realize the icon management function of actually moving the application icon for a longer distance, so that the distance for moving the application icon in a display interface when the user needs to manage the application icon can be shortened, the possibility of operation failure is reduced, and the operation convenience of the electronic equipment in the application icon management process is further improved.

Optionally, processor 2210, is further configured to any of:

moving the first icon to the target location;

deleting the first icon;

Therefore, the electronic equipment can realize the icon management functions of moving and deleting the first icon or displaying an application updating mark and the like on the first icon based on the target position determined by the first distance, so that the electronic equipment can realize different management functions of the first icon under the condition of moving the first icon by a small distance, and the electronic equipment is more convenient and faster in the icon management process.

processor 2210, further for:

and determining a target position based on the Nth icon position.

Like this, because each preset interval has preset corresponding icon position, through controlling first icon and moving in the different intervals of predetermineeing, can realize indirect adjustment and carry out the management mode managed to first icon, and make and remove the in-process and have the hierarchy sense, not only can promote the simple operation nature, can also promote user experience effect.

Optionally, processor 2210, is further configured to any of:

In this way, the rules for determining the target positions are respectively set for whether the nth icon position is the icon position in the first display page, so that the mode for determining the target position based on the nth icon position is more reasonable and flexible.

Optionally, processor 2210 is further configured to:

Optionally, the target icon position includes any one of:

Therefore, the mode of determining the position of the target icon by the electronic equipment is flexible and various, and the requirements of different users can be met.

Optionally, processor 2210 is further configured to:

Optionally, in the case that the target location displays a second icon, the processor 2210 is further configured to:

Optionally, processor 2210 is further configured to:

Therefore, under the condition that the second icon is arranged at the target position, the electronic equipment can combine the first icon and the second icon into the same folder, so that the operation of combining the icons into the folder by the electronic equipment is more convenient and time-saving.

Optionally, processor 2210 is further configured to:

Therefore, the electronic equipment can respond to the first input and the second input for simultaneously moving the first icon in opposite directions, and the background of the application program corresponding to the first icon is closed, so that the operation mode of closing the background process by the electronic equipment is convenient and time-saving.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the input Unit 2204 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 22041 and a microphone 22042, and the Graphics Processing Unit 22041 processes image data of still pictures or videos obtained by an image capturing device (such as a camera) in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The display unit 2206 may include a display panel 22061, and the display panel 22061 may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light emitting diode, or the like. The user input unit 2207 includes a touch panel 22071 and other input devices 22072. A touch panel 22071, also referred to as a touch screen. The touch panel 22071 may include two parts, a touch detection device and a touch controller. Other input devices 22072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (e.g., volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, and a joystick, which are not described in detail herein. The memory 2209 may be used to store software programs as well as various data including, but not limited to, application programs and an operating system. Processor 2210 may integrate an application processor, which primarily handles operating systems, user interfaces, application programs, etc., and a modem processor, which primarily handles wireless communications. It is to be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into processor 2210.

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

The processor is the processor in the electronic device described in the above embodiment. The readable storage medium includes a computer readable storage medium, such as a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk, and so on.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a chip, where the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is configured to run a program or an instruction to implement each process of the embodiment of the management method for application icons, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, the description is omitted here.

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

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

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

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

Claims

1. A method for managing application icons is characterized by comprising the following steps:

managing the first icon in a management manner associated with the target location;

the first distance is the sum of N preset intervals, the sum of the N preset intervals corresponds to the Nth icon position which can be arranged behind the first icon in the second direction, and N is a positive integer;

controlling the first icon to move at N different preset intervals, wherein the moving distance of each preset interval is equal to the preset distance;

determining a target position based on the Nth icon position;

wherein the determining a target location based on the Nth icon location comprises any one of: determining the Nth icon position as a target position under the condition that the Nth icon position is the icon position of the first display page;

2. The method of claim 1, wherein managing the first icon in a managed manner associated with the target location comprises any one of:

moving the first icon to the target location;

deleting the first icon, wherein the target location is used to indicate a delete icon;

3. The method of claim 1, wherein determining a location other than the location of the icon of the first displayed page as a target location comprises:

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the target icon position comprises:

the preset icon position is located in the 1 st display page before the first display page in the third direction; or,

5. The method of claim 3, wherein determining a location other than the location of the icon of the first displayed page as a target location comprises:

6. The method of claim 1, wherein determining a location other than the location of the icon of the first displayed page as a target location comprises:

7. The method of claim 2, wherein moving the first icon to the target location with a second icon displayed at the target location comprises:

8. An apparatus for managing application icons, comprising:

an icon management module for managing the first icon in a management manner associated with the target location;

the target location determination module is specifically configured to:

determining a target position based on the Nth icon position;

wherein the target location determination module is specifically configured to any one of: