How to implement Rate It feature in Android App

Question

I am developing an Android App. In which everything is working right. My app is ready to launch. But there I need to implement one more feature. I need to display a popup that contains

Rate It and Remind me later

Here if any user rates the app in the market then the popup won't be disappeared. I have searched in Google and found one link. With this, I understand that it's not possible to know. So I need a suggestion for this.

Has anybody faced this situation before? If so, is there any solution or any alternative for this?

Answer 1

I implemented this a while back, to some extent. It is impossible to know whether or not a user has rated an app, to prevent ratings from becoming a currency (some developers might add an option like "Rate this app and get so and so in the app for free").

The class I wrote provides three buttons, and configures the dialog so that it is only shown after the app has been launched n times (users have a higher chance of rating the app if they've used it a bit before. Most of them are unlikely to even know what it does on the first run):

public class AppRater {     private final static String APP_TITLE = "App Name";// App Name     private final static String APP_PNAME = "com.example.name";// Package Name      private final static int DAYS_UNTIL_PROMPT = 3;//Min number of days     private final static int LAUNCHES_UNTIL_PROMPT = 3;//Min number of launches      public static void app_launched(Context mContext) {         SharedPreferences prefs = mContext.getSharedPreferences("apprater", 0);         if (prefs.getBoolean("dontshowagain", false)) { return ; }          SharedPreferences.Editor editor = prefs.edit();          // Increment launch counter         long launch_count = prefs.getLong("launch_count", 0) + 1;         editor.putLong("launch_count", launch_count);          // Get date of first launch         Long date_firstLaunch = prefs.getLong("date_firstlaunch", 0);         if (date_firstLaunch == 0) {             date_firstLaunch = System.currentTimeMillis();             editor.putLong("date_firstlaunch", date_firstLaunch);         }          // Wait at least n days before opening         if (launch_count >= LAUNCHES_UNTIL_PROMPT) {             if (System.currentTimeMillis() >= date_firstLaunch +                      (DAYS_UNTIL_PROMPT * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000)) {                 showRateDialog(mContext, editor);             }         }          editor.commit();     }         public static void showRateDialog(final Context mContext, final SharedPreferences.Editor editor) {         final Dialog dialog = new Dialog(mContext);         dialog.setTitle("Rate " + APP_TITLE);          LinearLayout ll = new LinearLayout(mContext);         ll.setOrientation(LinearLayout.VERTICAL);          TextView tv = new TextView(mContext);         tv.setText("If you enjoy using " + APP_TITLE + ", please take a moment to rate it. Thanks for your support!");         tv.setWidth(240);         tv.setPadding(4, 0, 4, 10);         ll.addView(tv);          Button b1 = new Button(mContext);         b1.setText("Rate " + APP_TITLE);         b1.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {             public void onClick(View v) {                 mContext.startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("market://details?id=" + APP_PNAME)));                 dialog.dismiss();             }         });                 ll.addView(b1);          Button b2 = new Button(mContext);         b2.setText("Remind me later");         b2.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {             public void onClick(View v) {                 dialog.dismiss();             }         });         ll.addView(b2);          Button b3 = new Button(mContext);         b3.setText("No, thanks");         b3.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {             public void onClick(View v) {                 if (editor != null) {                     editor.putBoolean("dontshowagain", true);                     editor.commit();                 }                 dialog.dismiss();             }         });         ll.addView(b3);          dialog.setContentView(ll);                 dialog.show();             } } 

Integrating the class is as simple as adding:

AppRater.app_launched(this); 

To your Activity. It only needs to be added to one Activity in the entire app.