On a BlackBerry® device that includes a camera, when a BlackBerry device user takes a picture, the BlackBerry device stores the picture in the file system on the BlackBerry device. A BlackBerry® Java Application can access the pictures by using the File Connection API for Java ME that is available in BlackBerry® Java® Development Environment version 4.2 or later. The BlackBerry Java Application can invoke the camera application and listen for events when images are added to the file system.