diff --git a/camera/aidl/android/hardware/ICameraService.aidl b/camera/aidl/android/hardware/ICameraService.aidl
index 99c479c..9c0f28b 100644
--- a/camera/aidl/android/hardware/ICameraService.aidl
+++ b/camera/aidl/android/hardware/ICameraService.aidl
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 import android.hardware.camera2.ICameraDeviceUser;
 import android.hardware.camera2.ICameraDeviceCallbacks;
 import android.hardware.camera2.params.VendorTagDescriptor;
+import android.hardware.camera2.params.VendorTagDescriptorCache;
 import android.hardware.camera2.impl.CameraMetadataNative;
 import android.hardware.ICameraServiceListener;
 import android.hardware.CameraInfo;
@@ -130,6 +131,14 @@
     VendorTagDescriptor getCameraVendorTagDescriptor();
 
     /**
+     * Retrieve the vendor tag descriptor cache which can have multiple vendor
+     * providers.
+     * Intended to be used by the native code of CameraMetadataNative to correctly
+     * interpret camera metadata with vendor tags.
+     */
+    VendorTagDescriptorCache getCameraVendorTagCache();
+
+    /**
      * Read the legacy camera1 parameters into a String
      */
     String getLegacyParameters(int cameraId);
diff --git a/camera/aidl/android/hardware/camera2/params/VendorTagDescriptorCache.aidl b/camera/aidl/android/hardware/camera2/params/VendorTagDescriptorCache.aidl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d212207
--- /dev/null
+++ b/camera/aidl/android/hardware/camera2/params/VendorTagDescriptorCache.aidl
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package android.hardware.camera2.params;
+
+/** @hide */
+parcelable VendorTagDescriptorCache cpp_header "camera/VendorTagDescriptor.h";