公开(公告)号：US20230244508A1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-03

申请号：US18192062

申请日：2023-03-29

Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

Inventor： Yanhua ZHENG ,  Zhihao ZHANG ,  Jia XU ,  Sheng LI ,  Jingjing DONG

IPC: G06F9/451 ,  G06F3/0483

CPC classification number: G06F9/451 ,  G06F3/0483

Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide an application starting method and apparatus, and an electronic device. For any application that is installed in the electronic device and that supports multi-window display, based on configurations of an application layer and an application framework layer in a software system of the electronic device, the electronic device that supports a floating window and split-screen display may have a single-application multi-instance feature. In this way, the Dock triggers any application to start the multi-instance feature of the application, and the electronic device may simultaneously display a plurality of windows of the application on a display in a plurality of window combination forms, so that multi-instance coordination processing and operation may be performed on a same application.