The present application relates to the technical field of computers, and relates in particular to an application program control method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method comprises: running, in an electronic device, a native application and a sub-application nested in the native application; when the sub-application detects an operation request for target multimedia content, sending an object creation instruction to the native application, the object creation instruction comprising parameter information corresponding to a native object to be created, so that the native application creates the native object according to the parameter information, the native object being used to operate the target multimedia content in the sub-application; when determining that the native application has created the native object, sending an object calling instruction to the native application, so that the native application calls the native object and executes a function code of the native object; and receiving an execution result returned by the native application, and performing a corresponding operation on the target multimedia content according to the execution result.