File presenting method and apparatus for a smart terminal

A file presenting apparatus for a smart terminal, the apparatus comprising a loading queue setting unit, a thumbnail acquiring unit, and a thumbnail presenting unit, wherein:

• the loading queue setting unit is configured to enable a user interface thread to determine whether it is to present a thumbnail of a file according to a type of the file, and set loading information of the file in a loading queue if it is;
• the thumbnail acquiring unit is configured to enable a loading thread to acquire the loading information of the file from the loading queue, determine whether a cache of the smart terminal stores the thumbnail of the file, generate the thumbnail of the file in accordance with the loading information of the file and store the generated thumbnail to the cache of the smart terminal if the cache of the smart terminal does not, and acquire the thumbnail of the file from the cache of the smart terminal if the cache of the smart terminal does;
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• the thumbnail presenting unit is configured to present the thumbnail of the file as an icon of the file.