iOS App Store URL - 速率按钮 - iOS

Question

I want to add a rate button to the settings page in my iOS app. The only problem I have is what to use as the link. I have been searching around and apparently you can use:

http://appstore.com/appname

The problem is that I don't know the App Store URL of my app for sure until it gets reviewed and accepted onto the App Store...

Should I take a gamble and use " http://appstore.com/appname " or should I wait for the app to be accepted and then in the next app update add the rate button??

Thanks for your time, Dan.

Answer 1

Once you create your app in ITunes Connect you will get an app ID. you can use the app ID to refer to your app as follow

http://itunes.apple.com/app/id123456789

where 123456789 is your app ID

or from within your app so it will open the app store app

itms-apps://itunes.apple.com/app/id123456789

you can refer to this Question for more details

Answer 2

This tech note from the iOS Developer Library contains pretty clear rules about how to arrive at the "app name" portion of the link:

To create an App Store Short Link, apply the following rules to your company or app name:

Remove all whitespace

Convert all characters to lower-case

Remove all copyright (©), trademark (™) and registered mark (®) symbols

Replace ampersands ("&") with "and"

Remove most punctuation (See Listing 2 for the set)

Replace accented and other "decorated" characters (ü, å, etc.) with their elemental character (u, a, etc.)

Leave all other characters as-is.

Punctuation characters that must be removed.

!¡"#$%'()*+,-./:;<=>¿?@[]^_`{|}~

There are also some examples to demonstrate the conversion that takes place.

If you follow the rules, you should be safe in using the link for production.

EDIT:

Having said that, in my app I use this scheme to get real fancy and open the Rate page directly from within the app :)

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewContentsUserReviews?id=<YOURAPPID>&pageNumber=0&sortOrdering=2&type=Purple+Software&mt=8"]];

Disclaimer: Use at your own risk, of course, I don't think there is any guarantee that this type of link won't break in the future.