Tap will cause a press event in ionic

[jusliong]

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Using (tap) and (press) on same element - both gesture events are fired

Hey Folks, I’m having a strange issue with tap and press gestures. <ion-item (tap)="itemTapped()" (press)="itemPressed()"> ... </ion-item> In this scenario, from time to time (not always), both events will fire, even though tap and press are supposed to be mutually exclusive gestures — I’d obviously prefer them to be exclusive so that I don’t have two completely different user interactions firing off at the same time from the same user input. Not only this, but sometimes a definitive (very b…