Patent ID: 8732728

Claim:
A mobile device having a camera application, the mobile device comprising: a camera; a viewfinder screen associated with the camera and the camera application, the viewfinder screen comprising a display; a controller coupled to the camera, the controller configured to: launch a first plug-in application within the camera application; launch a second plug-in application within the camera application; receive, from a user of the mobile device, a selection of the first and second plug-in applications; and based on the selection from the user of the mobile device, update the display of the viewfinder screen to correspond to the selected plug-in applications, wherein the display of the viewfinder screen is configured to show a split screen image, wherein a first part of the split screen image corresponds to the first plug-in application and a second part of the split screen image corresponds to the second plug-in application; and an application programming interface configured to permit the first and second plug-in applications to display information directly on the display of the viewfinder screen without first transmitting the information to the camera application.