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feat: document longpress-shortcut gesture in Android help #1789

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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion products/android/18.0/context/gestures.md
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Expand Up @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ There are now several gestures available to interact with some keys on the keybo
![](../android_images/touch-hold-ap.png)

* **Long press**: Press and hold a key, and after a moment a submenu will appear. Slide the finger to the submenu to select a key. Release the finger, and the highlighted key from the submenu will be output.

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This empty line helps ensure consistent formatting for the list items; without it, the second bullet point had extra indentation compared to the other two.

* **Flick**: Press and hold a key, and then slide the finger in various directions on a key to reach alternate outputs. The key will animate to show the expected output when the finger gets released. A common flick is to slide down to reach numerals on the top row of the keyboard.
* **Multitap**: Some keys can be pressed repeatedly and rapidly to reach alternate outputs. Tapping rapidly twice on <kbd>Shift</kbd> will activate <kbd>Caps Lock</kbd> on many keyboards.

An up-flick on keys that support longpresses but do not have a defined up-flick will skip the wait and immediately display their longpress submenu.
* **Multitap**: Some keys can be pressed repeatedly and rapidly to reach alternate outputs. Tapping rapidly twice on <kbd>Shift</kbd> will activate <kbd>Caps Lock</kbd> on many keyboards.
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