Memory reclaiming method and device for terminal device

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention provides a memory reclaiming method and device for a terminal device. The terminal device is provided with one or multiple application collections, applications in the application collections have corresponding interface stacks, and when the interface stacks are in an operating status, corresponding memories are allocated. The method comprises the steps that when the application collections are switched to a background interface from a foreground interface, the interface stacks, in the operating status, in the application collections are recorded; interface stacks to be reclaimed are determined in the interface stacks; memories allocated for the interface stacks to be reclaimed are reclaimed. According to the memory reclaiming method and device for the terminal device, redundant memories can be released according to switching of the application collections, free memories in a system are increased, and lagging caused by memory reclaiming of the system is reduced.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the field of terminal technology, in particular to a memory recycling method for a terminal device and a memory recycling device for a terminal device. Background technique [0002] At present, embedded smart operating systems are widely used in consumer electronics products, such as mobile phones, computers, TVs, etc. Users can download and install many applications in the products to meet diverse usage needs. [0003] There is a Launcher (application launcher interface) in the embedded smart operating system. The application program displays the application icon for launching on the Launcher. If the user starts an application program and wants to open another application program, he needs to go back to the Launcher to find another application program. Click the application icon to start, or find another running application through the running program list on the system interface and click to switch. [0004] The abov...

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Problems solved by technology

However, the problem in the use of this application program collection is: there are multiple application program collections in the application program collection, and if the running status of all the application programs in the application program collection is maintained at the same time, a large amount of memory will be consumed. It makes the application program interface freeze and respond slowly. At present, a recycling strategy for this situation is to immediately recycle all the memory in the application collection when the application collection switches to the background interface, but this approach has disadvantages Yes, if the user wants to reopen the application in the application collection, it needs to be reloaded, which is not only slow but also the state and data of the previous operation will be lost

In addition, when closing the applications in the application collection, because the applications have the same priority, it is not possible to distinguish which applications are more important to the user when reclaiming memory, and the user experience is poor.

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