how to implement Rate Us in android

Question

I have made an application now i want to implement Rate Us feature in it. so for that i have added this code in my app

i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW , Uri.parse("market://details?id=com.bet.compny"));
startActivity(i);
break;

but when i click on the button for rate us getting force close. here is my log cat output.

android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle Intent {     
act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=market://details?id=com.bet.compny }

Any help would be appretiated.

Answer 1

This error occurs when running on a device without the Google PlayStore. I guess you might be running this on a emulator device which doesn't have Playstore and hence the error.

Implement using try catch as follows:

try{
        startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("market://details?id="+getPackageName())));
    }
    catch (ActivityNotFoundException e){
        startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id="+getPackageName())));
    }

Answer 2

Idk why you get the Error, but this should actually work. I also do it like this:

startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("market://details?id=" + APP_PNAME)));

But keep in mind that this would crash, if you are testing it on an Emulator/ a device without a play store. So I would suggest you to wrap it in a try and catch