Presenting, Appirater

thanhquan1512

Has anyone use this tool to increase user review (an important condition for appstore search engine)? I wonder if we can implemented this tool with Gideros

http://arashpayan.com/blog/2009/09/07/presenting-appirater/

OZApps

I had a Lua implementation for C*SDK a while ago, with a little tweaking, this can be adapted for Gideros too.

If you see the game GoNinja, it is used in that.

Scouser

I was looking at implementing something like this only yesterday (Android Only ATM)

ar2rsawseen

Could not resist myself:
http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile/AppRater-for-Gideros
Of course needs more testing

thanhquan1512

@ar2rsawseen So surprise, you are so fast I will try it in next upgrade.

ArtLeeApps

Hi @ar2rsawseen,

Just going to add this, i "think" i found a minor cockroach.

I just added this to the "AppRater:step()"

table.save(self.data, "|D|apprater")

I tested by setting it for 3 runs, but each time it retreived "data.timesUsed", but never saved it back, as both conditions were not true (times/days), so it never went to the "rate()" function to then save the "data".

This works for me now

function AppRater:step() self.data.timesUsed = self.data.timesUsed + 1 if self.data.timesUsed >= self.data.timesToWait then self:rate() else local now = os.timer() local days = math.floor((((now - self.data.startDate) / 60) / 60) / 24) --print(days) if days >= self.data.daysToWait then self:rate() end end table.save(self.data, "|D|apprater") end

:-bd

ArtLeeApps

LOL another one..

function AppRater:rate() local alertDialog = AlertDialog.new(self.conf.rateTitle, self.conf.rateText, self.conf.cancelButton, self.conf.rateButton, self.conf.remindButton)   local function onComplete(event) if event.buttonIndex == 1 then   -- ADDED this bit --   self.data.toRate = false table.save(self.data, "|D|apprater") -- ADDED this bit --   local osName = application:getDeviceInfo() if osName == "Android" and self.conf.androidRate ~= "" then application:openUrl(self.conf.androidRate) elseif osName == "iOS" and self.conf.iosRate ~= "" then application:openUrl(self.conf.iosRate) end elseif event.buttonIndex == 2 then self.data.daysToWait = self.data.daysToWait + self.conf.remindDays self.data.timesToWait = self.data.timesToWait + self.conf.remindTimes table.save(self.data, "|D|apprater") else self.data.toRate = false table.save(self.data, "|D|apprater") end end   alertDialog:addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete) alertDialog:show() end

Added the bit where it says "-- ADDED this bit --"....sorta obvious.

But if you dont set toRate to false, it will go to the rate page and still ask everytime you start the app again. so i set it to false and saved the data.

ar2rsawseen

wow, thanks submitted changes to github