METHOD FOR TOUCH INPUT-BASED OPERATION, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREFOR

An electronic device according to various embodiments includes: a housing; a touch panel disposed in the housing; a display disposed in the housing; a cover window disposed on the touch panel and having a first region corresponding to the touch panel and a second region corresponding to a region outside the touch panel in which the first region includes a first sub-region corresponding to an inner region of the touch panel and a second sub-region corresponding to an outer region of the touch panel; and a processor operationally combined with the touch panel and the display, in which the processor is configured to: provide a UI through the display, obtain a signal of a touch input from the touch panel while the user interface is provided; determine a region in which the touch input has initially occurred, based on the signal; determine the touch input larger than a first critical value as a first type touch in response to the fact that the touch input has initially occurred in the 1-1 region; execute an event corresponding to the first type touch, based on the user interface and the first type touch; sense whether the touch input includes movement of touch coordinates in response to the fact that the touch input has initially occurred in the 1-2 region or the second region; determine the touch input as a second type touch discriminated from the first type touch in response to the fact that the touch input includes movement of the touch coordinates; and execute an event corresponding to the second type touch, based on the user interface and the second type touch.