How to record a longer touch for a higher jump on libgdx

So in my game I want to have it so the longer someone holds down on the screen the higher my character jumps. However I don't know how to check if someone is holding down on the screen.

My current attempt is to do this: And run it every frame in the update method

public void handleInput(float dt) {
    if (Gdx.input.isTouched()) {
        if (sheep.getPosition().y != sheep.maxHeight && sheep.getPosition().y == sheep.minHeight) {
                sheep.jump(1);
        }

        if (sheep.getPosition().y == sheep.maxHeight && sheep.getPosition().y != sheep.minHeight) {
                sheep.jump(-1);
        }
    }
}

Solution

I am suggesting two way to detect long touch, choose one according to your requirement.

You can use longPress method of GestureListener interface to detect there is a long press or not. By default longPress duration is 1.1 seconds that mean user have to touch the screen equal to this duration, to fire a longPress event.
```
@Override
public boolean longPress(float x, float y) {

    Gdx.app.log("MyGestureListener","LONG PRESSED");
    return false;
}
```
Set your implementation as InputProcessor.
```
Gdx.input.setInputProcessor(new GestureDetector(new MyGestureListener()));
```

longPress only gets called one time after holding the screen for X time. so it's better to create own logic and check how long user touched the screen.

if (Gdx.input.isTouched()) {
   //Finger touching the screen
   counter++;
}

And on touchUp of InputListener interface make jump according to value of counter and reset value of counter to zero.

@Override
public boolean touchUp(int screenX, int screenY, int pointer, int button) {
   //make jump according to value of counter
   counter=0;    //reset counter value
   return false;
}

Set your implementation as InputProcessor.

Gdx.input.setInputProcessor(new MyInputListener());