A method for configuring an application template. A mobile terminal device receives a command input by a user for requesting to create the application template. The application template is configured to indicate an application required to be launched and a layout of a window of the application required to be launched on a screen, and to instruct launching of the application. The mobile terminal device, according to the command for requesting to create the application template, acquires information of identifiers of all of the applications currently displayed on the screen and information of the layout of the window of each of the applications on the screen, and then creates the application template. The application template corresponds to the acquired information of the identifier of a corresponding application and the information of the layout of the window of the corresponding application on the screen.