In-App-Rating with stars, without opening appStore

Question

I want people to rate my app with stars inside the app itself, so without a SKStoreProductView (or whatever). So if they tap "rate" then there is an extra view where they can rate my app with 1 to 5 stars. How do i implement that?

thanks a lot

Tillford

If there was an API for rating your app programmatically, why wouldn't you always rate your app 5 stars automatically then? – Soupandfish

Answer 1

Possible Now after iOS 10.3+

The SKStoreReviewController allows users to rate an app directly from within the app through a dialog box. The only downsite is that you can only request StoreKit to display the dialog, but can't be sure if it will.

Swift

import StoreKit

func someFunction() {
   SKStoreReviewController.requestReview()
}

Objective-C

#import <StoreKit/StoreKit.h>

-(void)someFunction {
    [SKStoreReviewController requestReview];
}

SKStoreReviewController not working

It is only enabled after the app is downloaded from the app store.

During development, or even release build, it is grayed out.

Predacious

Answer 2

EDIT:

Possible Now after iOS 10.3+

The SKStoreReviewController allows users to rate an app directly from within the app through a dialog box. The only downsite is that you can only request StoreKit to display the dialog, but can't be sure if it will.

import StoreKit

func someFunction() {
   SKStoreReviewController.requestReview()
}

Was not possible until recent iOS, there was no API.

EDIT: What you see in Blek is a GKGameCenterViewController with the GKGameCenterViewControllerStateAchievements

Bills

No that is not true. Do you know the app "Blek"? There that is possible. But because I have not enough RP I cannot post any pictures to show what I mean :/ – Tillford

Put the Image somewhere else and post the URL? – Bills

It is in German, sorry for that. below the stars it says "touch to rate". So I chose 5 stars but before it was set to 0 and it is possible to choose any other amount of stars – Tillford

Are you sure this rating then goes into the App Store? I did another check but can't find an API for that. Or subclass the SKStoreProductView? – Bills

Well of course I cannot be completely sure, that's why I contacted Kunabi-Brothers to tell me whether the rating is for the appStore or maybe the gameCenter, that is possible as well. I will keep you up to date. But thanks for your help for now. :) – Tillford

well the developers are not responding, so I guess they won't anymore. I also found this feature in "Boost 2" and "Flappy Bird". So I think it this rating is just referring to the gameCenter. Thanks for your help anyway – Tillford

@LiGe even thou the answer was probably not to your taste, i'd kindly invite you to accept it by using the green check mark down below the rating. – Bills