Batch App Configuration via Folder Long-Press Gesture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for managing multiple applications on a smart terminal require users to perform tedious and repetitive operations to set common functions or permissions across similar applications, leading to a poor user experience.
Innovation Solution
A method for a terminal to receive an operation on a folder, determining operation options based on application configuration files of multiple apps within the folder, allowing for simultaneous management of common settings and functions, such as notification settings and permission management, through a user interface that presents these options in a simplified manner.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users manage multiple apps with similar functions separately through individual operations, then each app can be configured precisely, but the operation steps become tedious and user experience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple individual app management operations into a single batch operation by detecting a long-press gesture on a folder containing multiple apps. This triggers a unified management interface that allows simultaneous configuration of common settings (notifications, permissions, launchers) across all apps in the folder, reducing operation steps while maintaining precise control over each app's configuration.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal management interface that can handle multiple types of app configurations (notifications, permissions, launchers) through a single operation mode. This multi-functional interface allows users to manage diverse app settings uniformly, improving ease of operation without sacrificing the ability to configure each aspect precisely.
2Productivity
If users enter each app's interface separately to configure settings, then detailed settings can be adjusted, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary action by pre-organizing apps into folders based on their functional similarities or user-defined categories. When a user long-presses a folder, the system has already prepared the batch operation context, including identifying all apps in the folder and their common configurable parameters. This preliminary organization enables immediate batch configuration without requiring users to navigate through each app individually, significantly reducing time consumption while maintaining detailed configuration capability.
3Ease of operation
If users manage app permissions and settings individually through system settings, then precise control is achieved, but operation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple separate system setting operations into a single unified interface by detecting a long-press gesture on a folder. This triggers a batch management mode that consolidates permission management, notification settings, and launcher configurations for all apps in the folder into one interface, simplifying operations while maintaining precise control over each setting through checkable options.
Data Source
AI summary
An application group operation method and a terminal are disclosed, where the method is applied to a terminal having a display screen, and the method includes receiving a first operation on a first folder in a user interface of the terminal, and obtaining at least one operation option of the first folder, where the at least one operation option is determined based on application configuration files of M APPs in the first folder, and M is an integer greater than 0, and when a first operation option is triggered, executing an operation command corresponding to the first operation option, where the first operation option is one of the at least one operation option.