Rate my Application in iTunes within my Application in iPhone

Question

I have to provide a link in my app where the user touches on it it will take me to the itunes Appstore page of my application where the user can rate the Application. I think other apps try to access the Appstore Application in the device and pass the corresponding url of the application in itunes... How to do this? Any ideas...

Answer 1

Here's my method; this goes straight to the App Store and to the Review/Rate page for my app:

- (IBAction)rateGame {
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"itms-apps://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewContentsUserReviews?type=Purple+Software&id=409954448"]];
}

Just change the id at the end (409954448) to the id for your app. Also, if you track the launch count or something, you can trigger this method after, say 12 launches to increase ratings. I added this in my update and in about 2 weeks it generated 5 ratings. Very useful.

Answer 2

NSURL* urlToMyApp = @"http://url.to.my/app/in/the/app/store";
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:urlToMyApp];