PROCESSING TOUCH GESTURES IN HYBRID APPLICATIONS

• US 20170017386A1
• Filed: 07/16/2015
• Published: 01/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Mattson, Kirk
• Granted Patent: US 10,620,972 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

The present disclosure is directed towards systems and method for receiving and processing user inputs with respect to hybrid computing applications. For example, systems and methods described herein involve detecting one or more user inputs of a touch gesture provided by a user and selectively channeling the one or more user inputs to a non-native element of the hybrid application or a native element of the hybrid application. In particular, the systems and method involve selectively channeling user inputs of touch gestures to prevent instances of input ambiguity with respect to interacting with a graphical user interface associated with the hybrid application.

Claims

1. A method for receiving and processing touch inputs received via a touchscreen interface of an electronic computing device, the touch inputs received by the electronic computing device for execution by a hybrid computing application, the method comprising:

detecting, by at least one processor, a first user input of a touch gesture with respect to a graphical user interface associated with a hybrid application, the hybrid application comprising a non-native element and a native element;

channeling, by the at least one processor, the first user input to the non-native element of the hybrid application;

detecting, by the at least one processor, a second user input of the touch gesture with respect to the graphical user interface associated with the hybrid application;

channeling, by the at least one processor, the second user input to the non-native element of the hybrid application;

receiving, from the non-native element of the hybrid application, an indication that the second user input has been rejected by the non-native element of the hybrid application; and

channeling, by the at least one processor and in response to receiving the indication that the second user input has been rejected by the non-native element of the hybrid application, the second user input to the native element of the hybrid application.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the non-native element of the hybrid application comprises Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) content.

3. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the native element of the hybrid application comprises a native container stored on a client device.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the touch gesture comprises a swipe gesture, and wherein:

the first input of the swipe gesture corresponds to an input object coming into contact with a touchscreen interface; and

the second input of the swipe gesture corresponds to a direction of the input object with respect to the touchscreen interface.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein channeling the first user input to the non-native element of the hybrid application comprises channeling the first user input to the non-native element of the hybrid application in accordance with a contract for processing user inputs between the non-native element and the native element of the hybrid application.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising channeling one or more additional user inputs associated with the first user input and the second user input to the native element of the hybrid application.

7. The method as recited in claim 6, further comprising excluding the one or more additional user inputs associated with the first user input and the second user input from being channeled to the non-native element of the hybrid application.

8. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein receiving the indication that the second user input has been rejected by the non-native element of the hybrid application comprises receiving an indication that the non-native element of the hybrid application is non-responsive to the second user input.

9. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein receiving the indication that the second user input has been rejected by the non-native element of the hybrid application comprises receiving an indication that the non-native element of the hybrid application has rejected a combination of the first user input and the second user input.

10. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein receiving the indication that the second user input has been rejected by the non-native element of the hybrid application comprises receiving, from the non-native element of the hybrid application, that the non-native element of the hybrid application relinquishes control of any additional user inputs associated with the first user input and the second user input.

11. A method for receiving and processing touch inputs received via a touchscreen interface of an electronic computing device, the touch inputs received by the electronic computing device for execution by a hybrid computing application, the method comprising:

detecting, by at least one processor, one or more inputs of a touch gesture with respect to a graphical user interface associated with a hybrid application, the hybrid application having a non-native element and a native element;

channeling, by the at least one processor, the one or more inputs of the touch gesture to the non-native element of the hybrid application;

receiving, from the non-native element of the hybrid application, an indication of a rejection of the one or more inputs of the touch gesture; and

channeling, by the at least one processor and in response to receiving the indication of the rejection of the one or more inputs of the touch gesture, the one or more inputs of the touch gesture to the native element of the application.

12. The method as recited in claim 11, further comprising excluding the non-native element of the hybrid application from receiving any additional inputs of the touch gesture.

13. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein:

channeling the one or more inputs of the touch gesture to the non-native element of the hybrid application comprises channeling the one or more inputs over a first channel associated with the non-native element of the hybrid application; and

channeling the one or more inputs of the touch gesture to the native element of the hybrid application comprises channeling the one or more inputs over a second channel associated with the native element of the hybrid application.

14. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the touch gesture comprises a swipe gesture.

15. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the touch gesture comprises a plurality of related touch inputs, each touch input comprising at least one of the one or more inputs of the touch gesture.

16. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein channeling the one or more inputs of the touch gesture to the non-native element of the hybrid application comprises channeling the one or more inputs of the touch gesture to the non-native element of the hybrid application in accordance with a default input state.

17. The method as recited in claim 16, further comprising, upon completion of the touch gesture, reverting to the default input state.

18. The method as recited in claim 17, further comprising:

detecting at least one input of a second touch gesture with respect to the graphical user interface associated with the hybrid application; and

channeling the at least one input of the second touch gesture to the non-native element of the hybrid application in accordance with reverting to the default input state.

19. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein:

channeling the one or more inputs of the touch gesture to the non-native element of the hybrid application comprises channeling a first plurality of user inputs of the touch gesture to the non-native element of the hybrid application; and

channeling the one or more inputs of the touch gesture to the native element of the hybrid application comprises channeling a second plurality of user inputs of the touch gesture to the native element of the hybrid application.

20. A computing device comprising:

at least one processor; and

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the computing device to;

detect a first user input of a touch gesture with respect to a graphical user interface associated with a hybrid application, the hybrid application comprising a non-native element and a native element;

channel the first user input to the non-native element of the hybrid application;

detect a second user input of the touch gesture with respect to the graphical user interface associated with the hybrid application;

channel the second user input to the non-native element of the hybrid application;

receive, from the non-native element of the hybrid application, an indication that the second user input has been rejected by the non-native element of the hybrid application; and

channel, in response to receiving the indication that the second user input has been rejected by the non-native element of the hybrid application, the second user input to the native element of the hybrid application.