Application running method and apparatus

The invention provides an application running method and apparatus, and belongs to the technical field of terminals. The method comprises the steps of receiving a scene switching instruction, wherein the scene switching instruction is used for instructing switching from a first user switching Activity to a second Activity; performing pause processing on the first Activity; and in the process of performing the pause processing on the first Activity, locally reading a pre-starting process list of the second Activity, and starting a process in the pre-starting process list of the second Activity based on idle computing resources. According to the method, the time consumption required by the starting process is avoided and the blockage caused by cross-process data query is avoided, so that the overall executive speed and the application running speed are increased.