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I am implemnting an app that can tag photos The listview-items contain 3 image-buttons and a text.

If user long-taps on a list-view-item-button there will be additional functionality (menu or dialog).

Is there a standard/idea or some lib-functionality that can put a visual clue/hint on long-tappable items so that the user knows that he/she can do more?

On windows there is the convention that "..." means open a dialog/submenu with additional choises.

i am looking for some convention / lib-functionality that tells the user about that "long-tap" is available.

I will also put a description into the online-manual but from server access log i can see that nearly nobody reads it.

related: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3945565/android-give-indication-that-menu-is-available

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  • Is this the kind of solution you are looking for? – Alvaro Feb 8 '17 at 17:12
  • The link can be usefull to teach the user that every time he sees xxxx then he can long-tap to get further options. My question is more like: how could xxxx look like? what have other gui-experts done or is there even a standard? – k3b Feb 8 '17 at 17:27
  • What you are showing is a tooltip, so you want to know if there is an icon or similar to hover/click and display the tooltip, right? – Alvaro Feb 8 '17 at 17:33
  • i have buttons: short-tap do some action. long-tap show a menu or dialog. example: imagine you have button "send with whatsapp". if you press the button (short tap) you send the content to "whatsapp". if you long tap you get a menu asking you "to what app do you want to send?". Note: my usecase is completely different. Note: normally android has no mouse so it has no hover. – k3b Feb 8 '17 at 17:57
  • You could use a button to open a tooltip, specially useful in touch devices. But showing two kinds of tooltips depending on the press time, I'm not sure it is a good idea. – Alvaro Feb 8 '17 at 18:11
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Always use single press untill unless it is taken by the primary action and for secondary action the user shall try longpress. this shall be hard for IOS users as they are not acquainted with this interaction though google apps in IOS follow their standards. You can give alternate interaction such as.

try something like google uses in its Gmailenter image description here and contacts apps. where you can directly click on the left small circle used to represent the user instead of long-press

Prefer using swipe actions for secondary interactions

or use some side arrow at the end of list and make some other interaction on clicking on that arrow.

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