There are situations, where we have to long press on key buttons of screen to trigger an event, to hold the element or type a letter,
LongPress can be done on a co-ordinate or on an element, we will see how to achieve this.
Example –
Let’s try with the android default Phone/Dialer app.
To display the dial “+”, we need long press the number “0” on the keypad.
For java-client 8.x with appium server 2.x
package com.test.apiTest;
import io.appium.java_client.AppiumBy;
import io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver;
import io.appium.java_client.android.options.UiAutomator2Options;
import io.appium.java_client.ios.options.XCUITestOptions;
import org.openqa.selenium.Point;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.PointerInput;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Sequence;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.time.Duration;
import java.util.Collections;
public class LongPress {
static DesiredCapabilities cap;
static AppiumDriver driver;
@BeforeTest
static void setup() throws MalformedURLException{
UiAutomator2Options options = new UiAutomator2Options()
.setDeviceName("emulator-5554")
.setPlatformVersion("12.0")
.setAppPackage("com.android.dialer")
.setAppActivity(".main.impl.MainActivity");
driver = new AndroidDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/"), options);
}
@Test
static void TestLongPress() throws InterruptedException{
driver.findElement(AppiumBy.accessibilityId("key pad")).click();
WebElement zero = driver.findElement(AppiumBy.accessibilityId("0"));
longPress(zero);
longPress(zero);
zero.click();
zero.click();
zero.click();
Thread.sleep(2000);
WebElement back = driver.findElement(AppiumBy.accessibilityId("backspace"));
back.click();
Thread.sleep(2000);
longPress(back);
Thread.sleep(3000);
driver.quit();
}
static void longPress(WebElement el){
Point location = el.getLocation();
PointerInput finger = new PointerInput(PointerInput.Kind.TOUCH, "finger");
Sequence longpress = new Sequence(finger, 1);
longpress.addAction(finger.createPointerMove(Duration.ofMillis(0),PointerInput.Origin.viewport(), location.x, location.y));
longpress.addAction(finger.createPointerDown(PointerInput.MouseButton.LEFT.asArg()));
longpress.addAction(finger.createPointerMove(Duration.ofMillis(1000),PointerInput.Origin.viewport(), location.x, location.y));
longpress.addAction(finger.createPointerUp(PointerInput.MouseButton.LEFT.asArg()));
((AppiumDriver)driver).perform(Collections.singletonList(longpress));
}
}For java-client 7.x or 6.x –
In Appium, we have one method LongPress() which is under class TouchAction
Refer the API doc link [java-client version >= 6.1.0 as of now]
public T longPress(LongPressOptions longPressOptions)
public T longPress(PointOption longPressOptions)
@Test
static void TestLongPress() throws InterruptedException{
Thread.sleep(2000);
WebElement Add = driver.findElement(By.id("fab"));
Add.click();
Thread.sleep(500);
WebElement Zero = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//android.widget.TextView[@text='0']"));
new TouchAction(driver)
.longPress(LongPressOptions.longPressOptions().withElement((ElementOption.element(Zero))))
.release().perform();
//verify if the + sign displayed
Assert.assertEquals(driver.findElement(By.id("digits")).getText(), "+");
}
Try to long press on “zero” button to print +
