Rate My App! - how to create it?

Hi everybody,
can anyone explain if there's any way to make app's users rate it from the game, please? I mean, should I use a plugin or there's an URL to open or if there's a smarter solution for it.

Thank you,
Nikolai

 

Android Market Developer Program Policies
http://www.android.com/us/developer-content-policy.html#showlanguages

Spam and Placement in the Store
Developers are important partners in maintaining a great user experience in Android Market.

Do not post repetitive content.
Product descriptions should not be misleading or loaded with keywords in an attempt to manipulate ranking or relevancy in the store’s search results.
Developers also should not attempt to change the placement of any Product in the Store by rating an application multiple times, or by offering incentives to users to rate an application with higher or lower ratings.
Do not post an app where the primary functionality is to link to the website or the webview of a website not owned by you (unless you have permission from the website owner to do so).

Specifically:
Developers also should not attempt to change the placement of any Product in the Store by rating an application multiple times, or by offering incentives to users to rate an application with higher or lower ratings.

This may as well include offering an incentive to the users of your app to rate your app in exchange for a reward within the app to the user.

 

Yet.. Some very popular games do offer you things to rate their games.

 

Ok, it wont be a problem with android's Policies. I only need the way to make it
Anyone knows it?

 

I have a small button in the initial menu that opens a URL. In the device it automatically opens the market

Code (csharp):

1. if (GUI.Button (new Rect (70, 480 - 124, 128, 64), rate))
2.                 Application.OpenURL ("market://details?id=com.trollugames.caverun3d");

 

Yes indeed, but it's against the policy.


@Sheva I really don't know, I've not dug into it. But most likely you need to build a sort of framework to tie in with the rating function of Google Play, and then perform a check to see if the user rated the app at a full 5 stars. joelsantos' example works if you simply want to refer the user to the page where they can rate the app.

 

"should not" != "can not".

It's a recommendation by the Google Market. People do it anyway. If you wish Google to possibly feature your app in some way, don't do it.

 

That is their policy, and it's wise to follow it. A report is enough to have your application removed seen it breaks with their policy, or even worse have your account closed if you did so in several apps.

 

That is only about offering incentive to rate.

If on the 5th load or something you just ask them to rate it, it isn't against the policy. No incentive, just a, "Please rate this app if you found it helpful."

 

I know this is a major archeological resurfacing, but isn't the policy against incentive the player to rate a game higher (or lower) than he would have and not about giving incentive to rate, there's an important difference there

 

@Joel Santos: And what for iOS, if you tell me! As its not working. Thanks in advance

 

public void rate()
{

print("RateMe..........!!!!!" + Application.bundleIdentifier);
Application.OpenURL("http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=" + Application.bundleIdentifier);

}


i hope its help

 

This is my code:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. using System.Collections;
3. using System.Collections.Generic;
4. using UnityEngine;
5.  
6. /// <summary>
7. /// Open dialog for app rating
8. /// </summary>
9. public class AppRating : MonoBehaviour {
10.  
11.     private const string AndroidRatingURI = "http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id={0}";
12.     private const string iOSRatingURI     = "itms://itunes.apple.com/us/app/apple-store/{0}?mt=8";
13.  
14.     [Tooltip("iOS App ID (number), example: 1122334455")]
15.     public string iOSAppID="";
16.  
17.     private string url;
18.  
19.     // Initialization
20.     void Start () {
21. #if UNITY_IOS
22.         if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty (iOSAppID)) {
23.             url = iOSRatingURI.Replace("{0}",iOSAppID);
24.         }
25.         else {
26.             Debug.LogWarning ("Please set iOSAppID variable");
27.         }
28.  
29. #elif UNITY_ANDROID
30.         url = AndroidRatingURI.Replace("{0}",Application.identifier);
31. #endif
32.     }
33.  
34.     /// <summary>
35.     /// Open rating url
36.     /// </summary>
37.     public void Open ()
38.     {
39.         if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty (url)) {
40.             Application.OpenURL (url);
41.         } else {
42.             Debug.LogWarning ("Unable to open URL, invalid OS");
43.         }
44.     }
45. }
46.  

 

Sorry for grave-digging but i wonder if anyone knows the code that opens the store with the app directly at the rating section, i think i have seen this done in a few games , where once you press the rate button you are taken directly on the rate section of the app page ready to leave your feedback.

 

On Button click execute this line of code

Code (CSharp):

1. Application.OpenURL("market://details?id=" + Application.productName);

 

That opens the store correct(it was what i had implemented) but i swear i saw some games take you directly to the rating section and not top of the page . Maybe my question was not clear but what i wonder if there is a way to take a user to the store listing at the Rate section and trigger the Rate function on the store page at the same time.

 

@CrazyApplesStudio got anything on this topic ?

 

how to create rate us and more app link open in samsung galaxy App Store?

 

for ios I used this: https://github.com/nicloay/appirater-unity
and for android this: https://github.com/codechimp-org/AppRater

 

For iOS you can just call
Device.RequestStoreReview
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/iOS.Device.RequestStoreReview.html

And it would be nice if the same existed for Android. But this goes for many things in Unity, strange how Android and iOS are so different in some ways..

 

I'm sorry to bring this subject again, but I'm not sure I understand.

Is it ok or not ok to just ask the user to rate the app (without giving any incentives or rewards)?

 

I think, you should use the Google's way. Without redirecting the player, you can show them a "rate my app" popup.

https://developer.android.com/guide/playcore/in-app-review/unity