How to perform LONG press on (physical )Home button?

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I need to perform LONG press on my physical home button (JAVA).
10x in advance

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There is no way you can access the hardware buttons using appium

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Can you explain what is your scenario, there might be an alternative way to achieve that.

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i want to see all the open apps in the background and close some app.
10x.

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I think you referring to Android. In that case run

adb shell input keyevent KEYCODE_APP_SWITCH

In case you do not know how. In Java just do:

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("command in here");

If you have more than one device use -s id where id is your device id:

adb -s id shell input keyevent KEYCODE_APP_SWITCH
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Talking only about Android . You can also try automating above process

  1. Press Android Home button using driver.pressKeyCode(AndroidKeyCode.HOME);
  2. Launch Settings app using driver.startActivity(“settings app package”,“settings app launcher”)
  3. Click Apps driver.scrollToExact(“Apps”).click()
  4. Swipe horizontal right using driver.swipe(100,100,300,100); so that u move to runnings tab
  5. Perform action u want over running apps
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I tried to perform your suggestion but this command always been ignored.
Runtime.getRuntime().exec(“adb shell input keyevent KEYCODE_APP_SWITCH”);
Anything I should perform before?
Thanks

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Have you run command in terminal

adb shell input keyevent KEYCODE_APP_SWITCH

with only one android connected. Whats the device model you using. It works for the ones I have here.