Long Press Gesture

We have TouchAction class to perform long press action on an element.

First we need to create an object for the TouchAction class and pass the driver object to it.

Now by using the TouchAction class object we can access the long press method and pass Mobile Element object along with duration of pressing an element in seconds.

Finally we need to call perform() method by using TouchAction class object,This is used to perform the action.

Syntax : 


actions = TouchAction(driver)
actions.long_press(ele, 5)
actions.perform()

Example: In the below example we are launching the app on an Android device and long pressing on the button using a text locator by scrolling.

  • Launch the App on an Android device.
  • Scroll to the element using text locator
  • Create TouchAction class object
  • Using the TouchAction object, call the long_press() method and pass the element variable on which we need to long click.
  • Wait for 2 seconds
  • Close the App

LongPressEx.py

from appium import webdriver
from appium.webdriver.common.touch_action import TouchAction
from selenium.common.exceptions import ElementNotVisibleException, ElementNotSelectableException, NoSuchElementException
from selenium.webdriver.support.wait import WebDriverWait
from appium.webdriver.common.appiumby import AppiumBy
import time

# Step 1 : Create "Desired Capabilities"
desired_caps = {}
desired_caps['platformName'] = 'Android'
desired_caps['automationName'] = 'UiAutomator2'
desired_caps['platformVersion'] = '10'
desired_caps['deviceName'] = 'Pixel3XL'
desired_caps['app'] = ('/Skill2Lead/Appium_Demo_App/Android/Android_Appium_Demo.apk')
desired_caps['appPackage'] = 'com.skill2lead.appiumdemo'
desired_caps['appActivity'] = 'com.skill2lead.appiumdemo.MainActivity'

# Step 2 : Create "Driver object"
driver = webdriver.Remote("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub", desired_caps)

# Step 3 : Create "WebDriver object"
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 25, poll_frequency=1,
                     ignored_exceptions=[ElementNotVisibleException, ElementNotSelectableException,
                                         NoSuchElementException])

# Step 4 : Create a MobileElement variable and store the long click button
ele = wait.until(lambda x: x.find_element(AppiumBy.ANDROID_UIAUTOMATOR,
    'new UiScrollable(new UiSelector()).scrollIntoView(text("LONG CLICK"))'))

# Step 5 : Create TouchAction class object
actions = TouchAction(driver)

# Step 6 : Call the long press method and pass the variable name on which we need to long press
# along with the duration of the press
actions.long_press(ele, 5)
actions.perform()

time.sleep(2)
driver.quit()
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