# Ionic 4 Gestures? (Press)

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-4-gestures-press/171698>\
**Category:** Ionic Framework\
**Created:** [August 23, 2019, 12:20pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-4-gestures-press/171698 "2019-08-23T12:20:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dovel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/dovel/32/127722_2.png) [@Dovel](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/Dovel)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 12:20pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-4-gestures-press/171698/1 "2019-08-23T12:20:23Z")

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Ionic 4 removed the gestures, right? But why? It’s a very important feature for mobile apps. There is no (press) event anymore. Which is a long press in Ionic v3.  
Or do I missed something? How to use Button / Touch gestures in Ionic 4? e.g. Press (which is emitted like a long press behavior).  
What’s [that](https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic/tree/master/core/src/utils/gesture)?

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**Author:** ![gokujy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/gokujy/32/117753_2.png) [@gokujy](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/gokujy)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-4-gestures-press/171698/2 "2019-08-23T13:43:07Z")

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try this: [long press gestures in Ionic 4](https://medium.com/madewithply/ionic-4-long-press-gestures-96cf1e44098b)

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**Author:** ![morphist](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/morphist/32/127474_2.png) [@morphist](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/morphist)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2019, 12:26am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-4-gestures-press/171698/3 "2019-08-24T00:26:07Z")

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So it is not Ionic 4 that removed the gesture it was a decision by Angular after version 6 not to bundle hammer.js by default. So now with Ionic 4 / Angular 7+ you have to import hammer.js in your polyfill.ts.

> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41322566/angular-2-could-not-find-hammerjs>