appium/docs/touch-actions.md

Touch Actions

WebDriver provides an API to send some kinds of touch gestures to the devices, for example, to long press an element you can do:

final WebElement imageView = searchResults.findElement(By.tagName("ImageView"));
new TouchActions(driver).longPress(imageView).perform();

Currently Appium support some of the gestures in the Touch Actions API:

• flick
• long press
• single tap

Some other gestures are supported through the "Alternative access method" explained in Automating mobile gestures