This issue is covered well in Android Design and exemplified in signature apps such as Gmail and Music.
Long press menus are now deprecated. Note how Music has the new universal menu symbol on each track, which pops up the available actions, clean, simple, and easy for average folks to understand and use. An example of the inconsistency in BP is the episode entry in the Episodes screen versus the episode entry in the Feed screen, which leads to confusion.
Update: An example of quirky operation that impairs usability is the layout of the Player screen. Despite the fact that player controls exist, touching much of the screen toggles between Play and Pause, making it all too easy to play or pause accidentally. By comparison, Music only responds to player controls. Even if the BP approach were better (it's not), the inconsistency hurts usability.