| 摘要 |
<p>Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for placing icons, which relate to the field of handheld terminal devices and solve the problem where when there are many icons on a main menu or desktop, after the icons on the main menu or desktop are sorted according to initial letters, it is still difficult for a user to find a required program icon from the many icons. The technical solutions of the present invention include: obtaining a characteristic value of an application downloaded from a third party; and according to a preset mapping relationship between a characteristic value and a terminal icon category, placing icons of the application according to a terminal icon category corresponding to the characteristic value of the application. The method and the apparatus for placing icons according to the embodiments of the present invention can be used to place a downloaded icon on a desktop and main menu in a handheld terminal device.</p> |
