Review Dialogs in Appcelerator Titanium

Summary

Use the SKStoreReviewController from iOS 10.3+ in your Ttanium application. Also use a native Android dialog for best parity.

Requirements

• Titanium Mobile SDK 8+
• iOS 10.3+
• Android 4.4+

Android Usage

import Review from 'ti.reviewdialog';

if (!Review.isSupported()) { return; }

Review.requestReview();

// when review is done
Review.addEventListener("complete", function(e){
	console.log(e.success);
});

iOS Usage

There are some important notes on when to show the rating dialog (thanks to @skypanther:

• The internal API itself will decide when, or if, to show the prompt
• You should not show it more than once for a given version of your app
• You should not show the dialog in response to user actions (like after a user clicks a button)
• You should not show it on first app launch (even after an update) but should wait until the user has used your app for a "meaningful" amount.

The following (ES6+ based) example shows how to use it in a real world example. It relies on the semver module / http://gitt.io/component/semver to compare app versions. Apple's own example uses a simple launch count to determine "meaningful" amount of use, which is also used in this example. You should use something appropriate for your app (amount of time, completion of an action N times, etc.):

import semver from 'semver';
import Review from 'ti.reviewdialog';

// first, check that the user has used your app for a "meaningful" amount
// here, a simple count of some action
let countOfSomeUserAction = Ti.App.Properties.getInt('countOfSomeUserAction', 0);
countOfSomeUserAction += 1;

Ti.App.Properties.setInt('countOfSomeUserAction', countOfSomeUserAction);

if (countOfSomeUserAction >= 4) {
  // if they've done whatever action 4 or more times, check the app version
  const lastVersionPromptedForReview = Ti.App.Properties.getString('lastVersionPromptedForReview', '1.0.0');
  let appVersion = Ti.App.version;
  const appVersionAsArray = appVersion.split('.');
  if (appVersionAsArray.length > 3) {
    // the semver library supports max 3-part version numbers (per semver rules)
    appVersion = appVersionAsArray[0] + '.' + appVersionAsArray[1] + '.' + appVersionAsArray[2];
  }
  if (semver.gt(appVersion, lastVersionPromptedForReview)) {
    // if the current app version is greater-than the last time you prompted them
    // prompt them with the titanium-review-dialog alert
    Ti.App.Properties.setString('lastVersionPromptedForReview', appVersion);
      if (Review.isSupported()) {
          Review.requestReview();
      }
  }
}

Download

• Stable release
• 

Setup

Unpack the modules and place them inside the modules/iphone/ and modules/android/ folder of your project. Edit the modules section of your tiapp.xml file to include this module:

<modules>
    <module platform="iphone">ti.reviewdialog</module>
    <module platform="android">ti.reviewdialog</module>
</modules>

Example

Request a new review dialog:

import Review from 'ti.reviewdialog';

if (Review.isSupported()) {
    Review.requestReview();
}

Methods

• isSupported
• requestReview

Events

• complete (Android only) Note: The API does not indicate whether the user reviewed or not, or even whether the review dialog was shown.

Author

Hans Knoechel (@hansemannnn / Web)

License

Apache 2.0

Contributing

Code contributions are greatly appreciated, please submit a new pull request!