52.0.2743.100 version of APk was released as part of Android N & was able to verify on this version.

Note: long press with cursor doesn't work.

Just to clarify: you synced the chromium repository, and built system_webview_apk, installed it on an Android N phone, and now long pressing on a link in WebView doesn't work?

What app did you use to test this?
What commit did you sync chromium to?
What device are you using?

Plug-in a otg mouse and then try long press on any link with left mouse
button. Context menu fails to show..

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I created a sample webview app..noticed the issue when using otg mouse.. I
was working with latest version when I reported.

Also note I was able to verify that issue is not reproducible on version
55.0.2848.0 and earlier versions.. Try on the latest..

u can try last week build.
That's when I reported the issue..
Let me know if u need more info

Can you provide the app you're using to test this (ideally with source code?)

WebView doesn't implement a context menu itself, so it's hard to test what you're talking about without seeing how the app is handling the long press.

We all know Webview doesn't implement context menu..application has to
implement context menu in by overriding onCreateContextMenu from the
activity in android.

What i'm trying to say is long press with the otg mouse cursor doesn't
trigger this callback.

Yes, this is why I'm asking to provide the application you're using to test this, so we can try it.

Here is the APK

There's no APK attached to your comment (maybe you attached it to your email, but it didn't get picked up by the bug tracker). If you could provide the code as well (for a minimal example) that would be great.

We do have several bugs related to showing the context menu in 60, so my guess is this is related to one of those.

We would need to know what device you are testing on as well - so we can reproduce this properly.

APk

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Source

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This is a mouse-specific bug. In TextView, a long leftclick acts the same as a long-press (it opens the context menu). Neither WebView nor Chrome handle the long leftclick like this (it appears to be a NOOP).

Does Android have a strong convention for what to do here? Should we strive to be consistent with TextView? Otherwise, I think we should toss this in the bug pool.

Thoughts torne@, gsennton@?

jinsukkim@ would you be the right person to guide on this? I see that you've done some stuff in EventForwarder.java, which looks like the right starting point for fixing this. Please assign back if this isn't your area.

 Issue 666060  or others about mouse-related input events flow makes me think mustaq@ would be the right person to look into this.

I think long-press context menu is a Touch-UI behavior, so Chrome/Webview is WAI for mouse.

aelias@: any comment on consistency with TextView?

I doubt the TextView behavior is an intentional design choice on the part of Android platform.  I think it's more important to be consistent with mouse behavior on other Chrome platforms.  Sounds fine to WontFix.

Note that WebView calling showContextMenu(x, y) API on mouse right-click is tracked in  http://crbug.com/687787