Exploring advanced user interactions

In Appium, the advanced user interactions API allows you to perform complex mobile gestures, such as drag and drop, swipe, and zoom by using the TouchAction and MultiTouchAction classes. It simply builds a complex chain of events, similar to what users do manually on their mobile devices. In the upcoming sections, we will see these classes in detail.

Long press

Long press is a mobile gesture that is widely used by people. It is a wonderful feature; most people say that you should touch and hold instead of using long press. By using long press, you can get more information about a particular feature. Just like a context-click on the Web, it also enables multiselection in mobile apps.

Let's try and create a long press example using the TouchAction class. Here, we are going to take an example of a dialer pad on an Android real device. In this section, we will long press the number 0 and it will be converted into +. To do this, we need to perform the following...