Using multitouch with android home button

appium123 · May 30, 2017, 11:36am

How do I use multi-touch with the android home button? While pressing a button in an app I want to press the home button.

Telmo_Cardoso · May 30, 2017, 11:54am

Try this and adapt to your code:

TouchAction touchAction=new TouchAction(driver);
touchAction.longPress(element).perform();
pressNativeHome(device);

Where pressNativeHome() just calls:

adb -s «device_id» shell input keyevent 3

Not having the release() it leaves the button pressed.

appium123 · May 30, 2017, 12:56pm

That worked!!! Thank you!!!

Aleksei · May 30, 2017, 1:50pm

((AndroidDriver) driver).pressKeyCode(AndroidKeyCode.HOME);