TW201635140A - Method and system for installing application - Google Patents

Abstract

A method and system for installing application can be used to install an application in user equipment. The system including: an information acquiring unit, used to acquire information of a screen of the user equipment; an information sending unit, used to send the information of the screen of the user equipment and identification information of the application to an application server; and an application installing unit, used to install the application in the user equipment. The application server includes: an application selection unit, used to select an installation package according to the information of the screen of the user equipment; an application sending unit, used to send the installation package. The application installing unit can install the application in the user equipment in response to the received installation package.

Description

Application installation method and system

The disclosure of the present application relates to a method and system for installing an application on a user device, and in particular, to a method and system for installing an application that is adapted and dynamic with a user device.

Portable smart electronic devices such as smart phones and tablets have become more and more widely used. These smart electronic devices have powerful processing power and can run various applications on them. Some applications are pre-installed on these electronic devices, usually at the factory. Users can additionally install other applications on these electronic devices according to their personal needs.

In the prior art, the manner in which an application is installed on a portable smart electronic device can be roughly divided into two types: one is that the user directly uses an application such as an "app store" on the electronic device (for example, , the "Google Play" application on the Android system) to select the application to be installed, then download the application installation package of the selected application and install it on the electronic device; another way is that the user uses a personal computer such as The device of the class accesses a specific application server to select an application to be installed, and then downloads or pushes the application installation package of the selected application to the user's portable intelligent electronic device for installation.

However, regardless of the form, the application installation package is obtained by downloading or pushing. This means that the application's installation package cannot be dynamically configured until the application is installed. However, various electronic devices have differences in hardware configuration. For example, the picture element density of the screen may include lDPI (for example, 120 DPI), mDPI (for example, 160 DPI), hDPI (for example, 240 DPI), and xhDPI (320 DPI). Basic primitive density, there are many different resolutions for the same primitive density, and the hardware architecture can include x86, ARM, MIPS, and so on. In order to be able to run and display properly on a variety of differently configured electronic devices, the application installation package is typically large in size to cover a variety of possible hardware configurations, thereby consuming more network resources during download or push.

In addition, service applications such as "app store" periodically scan the versions of each application installed on the electronic device and compare it with the latest version of the application on the application server. When the application installed on the electronic device is found to be not the latest version, the user is prompted to upgrade the application. The upgrade method is to download or push the latest version of the application installation package to the user's electronic device for installation to replace or overwrite the old version of the application. Since the application installation package is not dynamically configured, there is a situation where the latest version of the application on the application server is an improvement for a particular hardware-configured device, for example, fixed on a specific screen resolution. Display problems under the degree. However, such improvements do not make sense for other hardware-configured devices. As a result, users often perform unnecessary application upgrades and waste more network resources.

The inventive concept has been proposed in response to these problems in the prior art. According to the application installation method and system of the present invention, the application installation package can be dynamically configured according to the actual situation of the user equipment, so that the size of the application installation package for the specific user equipment is minimized, thereby saving network resources. In addition, you can avoid unnecessary application upgrades for users.

According to an aspect of the present invention, an application installation method is provided for installing an application on a user device, the method comprising the steps of: acquiring screen information of the user device; and installing the screen information of the user device together with the device to be installed The application identification information is sent to the application server together; in response to the received application identification information, the application server selects the application installation package according to the screen information of the user device received together with the identification information. The application installation package includes a user interface module adapted to the screen of the user device; the application server sends the selected application installation package; and in response to the received application installation package, the user Install the app on your device.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method may further include the step of: determining, in response to an operation on the installed application, whether there is a component for implementing the operation on the user device; when the component is not present, Obtaining the architecture information of the user equipment, and sending the architecture information of the user equipment to the application server together with the component information of the component; the application server selects the information corresponding to the component information according to the architecture information of the user equipment. The component server sends the selected component; and in response to the received component, assembles the received component to the installed application on the user device.

According to the embodiment of the present invention, the server information can be obtained by the application installation server, and the screen information of the user device is sent to the application server together with the identification information of the application to be installed, and the response is For the received application installation package, the application installation server can install the application on the user device.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the application information of the user equipment can be obtained by the application installation server, and the architecture information of the user equipment is sent to the application server together with the component information, and the received component is responded to. The application installation server can assemble the received component to the installed application on the user device.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the screen information of the user equipment may include the picture element density information and/or the resolution information of the screen.

In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, the component information may include a unique identification, name, and/or version number of the component.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the application installation package may include an operation logic module that is independent of a screen of the user device.

According to another aspect of the present invention, an application installation system for installing an application on a user device is provided. The application installation system includes: an information acquisition unit for acquiring screen information of the user equipment; and an information sending unit for transmitting the screen information of the user equipment together with the identification information of the application to be installed to the application server. And an application installation unit for installing an application on the user device. The application server includes an application selection unit that responds to the identification information of the received application, and the application selection unit selects an application installation according to the screen information of the user equipment received together with the identification information. The package installation package includes a user interface module adapted to the screen of the user device, and an application sending unit for transmitting the application installation package selected by the application selection unit. In response to the received application installation package, the application installation unit installs the application on the user device.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, in response to an operation on an installed application, determining whether there is a component for implementing the operation on the user device, when the component is not present: the information acquiring unit can obtain the use And the information sending unit may send the architecture information of the user equipment to the application server together with the component information of the component. The application server may further include: a component selection unit configured to select a component corresponding to the component information according to the architecture information of the user device; and a component sending unit configured to transmit the component selected by the component selection unit member. The application installation system can also include a component assembly unit that, in response to the received component, assembles the received component onto the installed device on the user device.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the application installation system can be implemented in a user device. Alternatively, the application installation system can be implemented in an application installation server.

According to the application installation method and system of the present invention, the dynamic configuration of the application installation package can be realized, that is, each module adapted to the user device is selected to assemble the application installation package, and only when needed The user device-compliant components are assembled to the installed application, thereby minimizing the size of the application installation package for a particular user device, thereby saving the network resources required to transfer the application installation package.

In addition, when the user interface module or component of the specific hardware configuration is upgraded on the application server, the user device irrelevant to the hardware configuration does not need to be upgraded, thereby avoiding the user. The necessary application upgrade operations.

The above as well as other aspects, features and advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the following detailed description. In the drawing:

1 shows a schematic structural block diagram of an application installation package according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 shows a diagram of assembling components in an installed application in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

3 shows a schematic diagram of an application installation system in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention;

4 shows a schematic diagram of an application installation system in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 shows a schematic flow chart of an application installation method in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the invention may be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as being limited to the embodiments set forth herein. These embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and the scope of the invention will be fully disclosed to those skilled in the art. In the figures, the various components are not drawn to scale, and the same reference numerals will be used to refer to the same or similar components.

The terms "a", "an", "the" and "the" and "the" The terms "including", "comprising", "comprising" and "comprising" are to be interpreted as an open term (ie, meaning "including but not limited to").

Unless otherwise defined, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning meaning meaning It is also to be understood that the invention is not to be construed as limited In addition, all terms defined in a commonly used dictionary may not be overly interpreted unless otherwise defined.

The present invention provides an application installation method and system that is adaptable and dynamic to a user device. In the technical solutions of the present invention, the application installation package is dynamically assembled.

FIG. 1 shows a schematic block diagram of an application installation package in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the application installation package 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a dynamically configured user interface module 11 and an operation logic module 12.

The user interface module 11 is associated with the screen of the user device. In particular, the user interface module 11 can be related to the pixel density of the screen of the user device and/or to the resolution of the screen. The primitive density of the screen may include four basic primitive densities of lDPI (eg, 120 DPI), mDPI (eg, 160 DPI), hDPI (eg, 240 DPI), and xhDPI (320 DPI). Thus, for the same application, there may be four different user interface modules 11-1 through 11-4 to correspond to four primitives, respectively. However, the inventive concept is not limited thereto. For example, the user interface module 11 may correspond to a density of primitives other than four basic primitive densities; for the same primitive density, there may be multiple user interface modules 11 to correspond to different resolutions; or for the same application For the program, there may be fewer or more than four different user interface modules 11. In the user interface module 11, for example, display elements of an application such as a window, a function table, and a button can be implemented, and mutual positional relationships between the display elements can be realized.

The operational logic module 12 is independent of the screen of the user device. For the same application, only one operational logic module 12 is required. Specifically, in the operation logic module 12, various execution-independent application parts such as algorithms and data structures can be implemented, and call relationships between display elements can also be implemented, for example, by clicking in the current window. A menu item to switch to another window.

In the prior art, in order to be able to adapt to a plurality of different hardware configurations, a plurality of user interface modules 11 and operation logic modules 12 are included in one application installation package, so that the size of the application installation package is large.

According to the technical solution of the present invention, the user interface module 11 can be dynamically configured to adapt the screen of the user equipment (eg, the picture element density of the screen), so that the size of the application installation package for the specific user equipment is minimized. . As shown in FIG. 1, one of the user interface modules 11-1 to 11-4 can be selected as the user interface module 11 according to the screen of the user device, and included in the application installation package.

In addition, taking the Android system as an example, the application on it actually runs in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and the underlying system resources are obtained/accessed through the JVM. In some cases, the JVM does not meet all the requirements, so Java provides the Java Native Interface (JNI) to enable code written in languages such as C/C++ to be integrated with Java code running in the JVM via JNI. . In some applications, in order to achieve a specific function or improve the efficiency of the application, you need to call the instruction set of the underlying hardware platform. Developers can access the instruction set of the underlying hardware platform, for example, through code written in languages such as C/C++, to implement a specific function or to improve the efficiency of the application. Thus, the same application's runtime (or component) on different hardware platforms is different because different hardware platforms provide different instruction sets.

In the prior art, in order to enable the same application to run on multiple user devices having different hardware architectures, an application installation package includes a runtime library written for different hardware architectures, so that the application installation package Large size. Take the Android application package as an example. In order to implement a cross-hardware platform, an Android package (Android Package, APK) document can include a runtime library for both ARM and x86 hardware architecture.

According to the technical solution of the present invention, the runtime library (or component) can be dynamically configured to adapt to different hardware architectures (for example, ARM, x86, MIPS, etc.), so that the size of the application installation package for a specific user device is the smallest. Chemical. In addition, as shown in FIG. 1, when assembling the application installation package 10, the components 1 to 3 are not included (shown only by the dashed box), but when the user operates the installed application, the corresponding The components are assembled to the installed application, which further reduces the size of the application installation package.

2 shows an illustration of assembling components in an installed application in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, for example, in response to an operation on an installed application, a component 1-1 (eg, a component for an ARM architecture) or a component 1-2 (eg, for x86) may be selected according to the architecture of the user device. The component of the architecture) acts as component 1 and assembles it into the installed application. In addition, the corresponding component can be selected according to the component information of the component. Component information may include, but is not limited to, a unique identification, name, and/or version number of the component.

FIG. 3 shows a schematic diagram of an application installation system 100 in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. The application installation system 100 is for installing an application on the user device 200.

Referring to FIG. 3, an application installation system 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention may include an information acquisition unit 101, an information transmission unit 102, and an application installation unit 103. The information obtaining unit 101 is configured to acquire screen information of the user equipment 200. The information sending unit 102 is configured to send the screen information of the user device 200 to the application server 300 together with the identification information of the application to be installed. The application installation unit 103 is for installing an application on the user device 200.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the application server 300 may include an application selection unit 301 and an application transmission unit 302. In response to the received identification information of the application, the application selection unit 301 can select an application installation package based on the screen information of the user device 200 received together with the identification information. The application installation package can include a user interface module that is adapted to the screen of the user device 200. The application transmitting unit 302 is configured to transmit the application installation package selected by the application selecting unit 301. In response to the received application installation package, the application installation unit 103 can install the application on the user device 200.

The application installation system 100 and the application installation unit 103 can communicate with each other through the network 400. Network 400 can be any wired network, wireless network, or a combination thereof.

FIG. 4 shows a schematic diagram of an application installation system 100' in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention.

The application installation system 100' shown in FIG. 4 further includes a component assembly unit 104 as compared with the application installation system 100 shown in FIG. In addition, the application server 300' shown in FIG. 4 further includes a component selection unit 303 and a component transmission unit 304.

As mentioned above, an application may include components that need to call the instruction set of the underlying hardware platform to implement a particular function. In this case, in response to the operation of the installed application, it is first determined whether there is a component for realizing the operation on the user device, and when the component is not present: the information acquisition unit 101 acquires the user device 200. The information transmission unit 102 transmits the architecture information of the user device 200 to the application server 300 together with the component information of the component.

The component selection unit 303 can select a component corresponding to the component information according to the architecture information of the user device 200. The component transmitting unit 304 is for transmitting the component selected by the component selecting unit 303. In response to the received component, component assembly unit 104 can assemble the received component onto the installed device on user device 200.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, when the application is initially installed on the user device 200, the application installation package for installing the application may not include various components that need to call the instruction set of the underlying hardware platform, so that the application The size of the package is further reduced.

When running an application, if the user's action (for example, clicking a button or selecting a menu item) requires calling one (or more) widgets to implement a particular function, first determine on the user device Whether or not the one (or more) components are present. If not, the corresponding component can be obtained from the application server 300 in the manner described above, and the components can be assembled to the installed application to achieve a specific function. The component obtained in the above manner is a component that is adapted to the hardware platform of the user device, thereby enabling the application to operate normally. In addition, there is no need to obtain components that are independent of the hardware platform of the user device, thereby saving network resources.

Although FIGS. 3 and 4 illustrate the application installation systems 100 and 100' as being separate from the user device 200, the application installation system can be implemented in the user device 200 in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. Alternatively, the application installation system can also be implemented as a separate application installation server. In addition, a person skilled in the art can implement a part of the functions of the application installation system according to the present invention in the user equipment according to actual needs, and implement another part of the functions in other devices separated from the user equipment (for example, The application installs the server). For example, the information acquisition unit is implemented in the user device, and the information transmission unit is implemented in other devices separate from the user device.

FIG. 5 shows a schematic flow chart of an application installation method in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 5, screen information of the user equipment is first acquired (S501). The screen information of the user device may include the picture element density information and/or the resolution information of the screen. Subsequently, the screen information of the user device is sent to the application server along with the identification information of the application to be installed (S502). In response to the received identification information of the application, the application server selects an application installation package based on the screen information of the user device received with the identification information (S503). The application installation package can include a user interface module that is adapted to the screen of the user device. In addition, the application installation package can also include an operational logic module that is independent of the screen of the user device. The application server sends the selected application installation package (S504). In response to the received application installation package, the application is installed on the user device (S505).

In addition, in response to the operation of the installed application, it is determined whether there is a component on the user device for implementing the operation. When the component is not present, the architecture information of the user device may be acquired (S506), and the architecture information of the user device is sent to the application server together with the component information of the component (S507). The application server selects a component corresponding to the component information based on the architecture information of the user device (S508), and transmits the selected component (S509). In response to the received component, the received component is assembled to the installed application on the user device (S510).

The application installation method according to the present invention can be performed on the user device. Alternatively, the application installation method according to the present invention can be performed by an application installation server separate from the user device.

While various embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, the embodiments of the invention The scope of the invention is intended to cover all such modifications and modifications.

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S501‧‧‧Get the screen information of the user device

S502‧‧‧Send information to the application server

S503‧‧‧Select application installation package

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S506‧‧‧Get information on the architecture of user equipment

S507‧‧‧Send architectural information to the application server

S508‧‧‧Select components

S509‧‧‧Send component

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Claims (14)

An application installation method for installing an application on a user device, the method comprising the steps of:
Obtain the screen information of the user device;
Sending the screen information of the user device to the application server along with the identification information of the application to be installed;
In response to the received identification information of the application, the application server selects an application installation package according to the screen information of the user device received together with the identification information, the application installation package includes a screen with the user device Adapted user interface module;
The application server sends the selected application installation package; and installs the application on the user device in response to the received application installation package. According to the application installation method described in claim 1, the method further includes the steps of:
Responding to the operation of the installed application, determining whether there is a component on the user device for implementing the operation;
Obtaining the architecture information of the user equipment when the component is not present, and sending the architecture information of the user equipment to the application server together with the component information of the component;
The application server selects a component corresponding to the component information according to the architecture information of the user device;
The application server sends the selected component; and in response to the received component, assembles the received component to the installed application on the user device. According to the application installation method of claim 1, wherein the server is installed by the application to obtain the screen information of the user device, and the screen information of the user device is together with the identification information of the application to be installed. Sent to the application server and in response to the received application installation package, the application installation server installs the application on the user device. The application installation method according to claim 2, wherein the application installation server obtains the architecture information of the user equipment, and sends the architecture information of the user equipment to the application server together with the component information. And in response to the received component, the application installation server assembles the received component onto the installed device on the user device. The application installation method according to claim 1, wherein the screen information of the user equipment includes the image density information and/or the resolution information of the screen. The application installation method of claim 2, wherein the component information includes a unique identifier, a name, and/or a version number of the component. The application installation method of claim 1, wherein the application installation package comprises an operation logic module, the operation logic module being independent of a screen of the user device. An application installation system for installing an application on a user device, including:
An information acquisition unit, configured to obtain screen information of the user equipment;
a message sending unit, configured to send the screen information of the user device to the application server together with the identification information of the application to be installed; and an application installation unit, configured to install the application on the user device, and the The application server includes:
The application selection unit is configured to respond to the identification information of the received application, and the application selection unit selects an application installation package according to the screen information of the user equipment received together with the identification information, the application installation package a user interface module including a screen adapted to the user device; and an application sending unit for transmitting an application installation package selected by the application selection unit,
The application installation unit installs an application on the user device in response to the received application installation package. The application installation system of claim 8, wherein, in response to an operation of the installed application, determining whether there is a component for realizing the operation on the user device, when the component is not present Time:
The information obtaining unit acquires the architecture information of the user equipment; and the information sending unit sends the architecture information of the user equipment to the application server together with the component information of the component, and the application server further includes :
a component selection unit configured to select a component corresponding to the component information according to the architecture information of the user device; and a component sending unit configured to send the component selected by the component selection unit,
The application installation system also includes a component assembly unit that, in response to the received component, assembles the received component onto the installed device on the user device. The application installation system of claim 8 or 9, wherein the application installation system is implemented in a user device. The application installation system of claim 8 or 9, wherein the application installation system is implemented in an application installation server. The application installation system according to claim 8 , wherein the screen information of the user equipment includes the screen density information and/or the resolution information of the screen. The application installation system of claim 9, wherein the component information includes a unique identification, name, and/or version number of the component. The application installation system of claim 8, wherein the application installation package comprises an operation logic module, the operation logic module being independent of a screen of the user device.