Image forming apparatus and image forming method

An image forming apparatus comprising:

• an operation unit that is equipped with a display unit on which a screen is displayed and a first operating system, and accepts an operation;
• and
• a main body unit that is equipped with a second operating system, and acts according to an operation accepted by the operation unit and, when notified of the stop of an application accepted by the operation unit, controls a process of checking a currently active application on the second operating system and stopping a job of the application, wherein
• the operation unit includes:
• an operation accepting unit that accepts, when an always-displayed screen for using a specific function has been pressed, activation of a first application running on the first operating system to use the specific function associated with the screen;
• a synchronization processing unit that performs a synchronization process of synchronizing a second application running on the first operating system and a third application running on the second operating system;
• an app-activation control unit that activates the first application after the synchronization processing unit has performed the synchronization process;
• and
• a display control unit that performs control of displaying an operation accepting screen of the first application activated by the app-activation control unit on the display unit.

An image forming method implemented by an image forming apparatus that includes an operation unit, which is equipped with a display unit on which a screen is displayed and a first operating system and accepts an operation, and a main body unit, which is equipped with a second operating system and acts according to an operation accepted by the operation unit, the image forming method comprising:

• accepting, when an always-displayed screen for using a specific function has been pressed, activation of a first application running on the first operating system to use the specific function associated with the screen;
• performing a synchronization process of synchronizing a second application running on the first operating system and a third application running on the second operating system;
• activating the first application after the synchronization process has been performed;
• and
• performing control of displaying an operation accepting screen of the activated first application on the display unit.