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dpa99c / cordova-launch-review

Cordova/Phonegap plugin for iOS and Android to assist in leaving user reviews/ratings in the App Stores
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Launch not working on iOS 11 #6

Closed Habared closed 6 years ago

Habared commented 6 years ago

LaunchReview.launch(storeId) is not working anymore on iOS11. It launches App Store App but then a message "Cannot Connect to App Store" is displayed.

dpa99c commented 6 years ago

It appears that in iOS 11, Apple has disabled the URL format used by this plugin (and may other apps) to open the review section of the App Store page. See https://github.com/nicklockwood/iRate/issues/302

See also https://stackoverflow.com/a/45710637/777265

dpa99c commented 6 years ago

Just published v2.0.1 which just opens the App Store page for the app on iOS 11, since it's no longer possible to directly open the review section.

f another mechanism can be found to directly open the Review section on iOS 11, I'll re-open this issue and implement it.

GitRubb commented 6 years ago

@dpa99c referring to your latest commit, it actually is possible to directly link to the review page on iOS 11.

just attach &action=write-review to the the end of the url. This may work for the itms url also I haven't tried yet.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/_app_name_/id_app_id_?mt=8&action=write-review

zapjonny commented 6 years ago

That one supposedly breaks as soon as you change app name right?

dpa99c commented 6 years ago

Just been doing some empirical testing on iOS 11 and it seems the country code and app name are required in the URL, but not actually used so they can be anything - only the ID needs to be correct for the target app. Also mt=8 is no longer required, so I've distilled it down to:

itms-apps://itunes.apple.com/xy/app/foo/id{your_app_id}?action=write-review

where only {your_app_id} needs to change.

This then works as @GitRubb describes, opening the "Write a Review" popup in the App Store page on iOS 11.

I will push out a patch release to use this URL format on iOS 11+

dpa99c commented 6 years ago

Published as cordova-launch-review@2.0.2

zapjonny commented 6 years ago

itms-apps://itunes.apple.com/xy/app/foo/id{your_app_id}?action=write-review

Tried it, didn't work on iOS 11.0. Still roots to app store though, but still gets the Can't connect to App Store:ish message. @dpa99c

dpa99c commented 6 years ago

@zapjonny It works fine when I test it: see this screencapture

zapjonny commented 6 years ago

@dpa99c Yes sorry I just found out a mistake on my part, I can confirm that the link works. Sorry for the trouble and thanks for this. I guess I will just carry on with this URL for iOS 11.0 for now...