Rate application in app store

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

I’m trying to conceive a way to link users to the app store from a Corona application.

I tried a web popup with links like

itms://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewContentsUserReviews?id=339933022&onlyLatestVersion=true&pageNumber=0&sortOrdering=1

http://itunes.com/apps/NinJump

or

http://itunes.apple.com/app/id339933022

which don’t work.
Has anyone figured out a way to achieve something like this? [import]uid: 8145 topic_id: 11260 reply_id: 311260[/import]

#2

Err. Forgot to mention that the goal of linking to the app store is to have the users rate the app (which most popular apps offer sooner or later). [import]uid: 8145 topic_id: 11260 reply_id: 40826[/import]

#3

This was basically lifted from another example in the contributed code:

local function testNetworkConnection()  
 local netConn = require('socket').connect('www.apple.com', 80)  
 if netConn == nil then  
 return false  
 end  
 netConn:close()  
 return true  
end  
  
local function rateMe(event)  
 local DEVICE = system.getInfo ( "environment" )  
 ReviewURL = "itms-apps://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewContentsUserReviews?type=Purple+Software&id=434030469"  
 if DEVICE == "simulator" then  
 print ( "Cannot spawn this URL in the simulator" )  
 else  
 if testNetworkConnection() then  
 system.openURL ( ReviewURL )  
 hasRated = 1  
 saveSettings()  
 end  
 end  
end

That function is the onRelease for a ui.newButton() that the user taps.

 if hasRated == 0 then  
 rateButton = ui.newButton{defaultSrc="rate.png", defaultX = 191, defaultY = 42, onRelease=rateMe, x=display.contentWidth/2, y=205}  
 menuGroup:insert(rateButton)  
 end

This is code from my soon to be updated to version 1.1 and isn’t live in the app store yet, but there isn’t anything here Apple should reject for. YMMV. [import]uid: 19626 topic_id: 11260 reply_id: 40847[/import]

#4

how do i integrate this in case of Android???
is there any provision for doing this??? [import]uid: 91460 topic_id: 11260 reply_id: 67747[/import]