Click() becomes longClick()

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
onView(withId(R.id.abc)).perform(click()) sometimes does long click instead

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
It should always do click. Doing long click sometimes makes the test flaky.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
All versions of Android OS. Espresso 1.1 test kit

Please provide any additional information below.
I understand that you put a comment there saying that there's no perfect way to 
do this, but I remember that I didn't see this problem when I was using 
Robotium. Here is what Robotium does:


long downTime = SystemClock.uptimeMillis();
                        long eventTime = SystemClock.uptimeMillis();
                        MotionEvent event = MotionEvent.obtain(downTime, eventTime,
                                        MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN, x, y, 0);
                        MotionEvent event2 = MotionEvent.obtain(downTime, eventTime,
                                        MotionEvent.ACTION_UP, x, y, 0);
                        try{
                                inst.sendPointerSync(event);
                                inst.sendPointerSync(event2);
                                successfull = true;
                        }

Espresso is using the UiController, so it may not be able to send motion event 
like Robotium does. But, the downtime and event time is also different between 
Espresso and Robotium. Maybe it can improve this problem by making this part of 
code as close as Robotium.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 15 Jan 2014 at 8:56