Review pop-up question

[healthyutech]

I am the owner of a few apps- not the programmer. Sorry for the stupid question up front.

I recently updated one of my apps on my iPhone and saw that this update had a pop-up message asking me to review the app. When you pressed yes, it took you to the review page of the app in the App Store.

How difficult is this to add into code? What kind of time does the average programmer need to do this?

[ChrisL]

It's not difficult. Apple has a tech note that describes exactly how to launch the app store from within an app, so that part is trivial (assuming the developer knows where to look, of course).

Actually displaying the pop up is not hard, either, though the difficulty depends on exactly how you want it to behave. Should this just appear once after the update and then never reappear? If so, I can't imagine that this would take more than an hour to implement and test in most cases, though of course your mileage may vary depending on your particular app, the current state of its code, etc.

[JasonR]

There's even existing open source code for it: Presenting, Appirater - Arash Payan | Blog. The link describes the default behavior, which should be easy to change if you need it. And the license appears to be compatible with commercial apps.

[healthyutech]

Thanks so much guys. Much appreciated.