Android Touch Event determining duration

Question

How does one detect the duration of an Android 2.1 touch event? I would like to respond only if the region has been pressed for say 5 seconds?

Answer 1

You can't use unix timestamps in this case. Android offers it's own time measurement.

long eventDuration = 
            android.os.SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() 
            - event.getDownTime();