A Polite Way to Request Reviews for iOS

Features

Polite Review is an elegant way to request ratings and reviews from your users.

• Automatically grabs your localized app name and uses "this app" as a default.

• Localized, curently English, Chinese Simplied, and Chinese Traditional.

• For 10.3 and above, uses StoreKit to request reviews, in compliance with store guidelines.

• For below 10.3, falls back to a simple alert which will open the App Store to the review page.

Coming Soon

• Swift 4
• Tests

Getting Started

The best way to get started with PoliteReview is with Carthage(coming soon) and CocoaPods.

Usage

Add PoliteReview to AppDelegate

import PoliteReview

...

func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {

    PoliteReview.main.setup(itunesID: <your itunes id>, contactURL: <a link to a website contact page>, contactEmail: <your contact email>, triggerCount: <a launch count>)
    return true
}

• Your iTunes App ID is a string of numbers, found in iTunes connect.
• Trigger count is the minimum number of times your app has been launched before any alerts are shown. If no value is specified, it will default to 5.

In any ViewController, you can request a review by calling requestPoliteReview(). PoliteReview will determine if an alert will be shown.

Example:

class ViewController: UIViewController {
...

    func methodCalledByUser() {
    ...
    requestPoliteReview()
    }
}    

Notifications

PoliteReview supports Notifications. You can use these to trigger analytics events, or for other things. They will report with userInfo for the result of the action, with yes as true and no as false

Notification.Name is extended, and you may observe the following.

• .politeReviewLoveAlert with userInfo: PoliteReviewNotification.loveAlert
• .politeReviewLegacyRequest with userInfo: PoliteReviewNotification.legacyReview
• .politeReviewContactAction with userInfo: PoliteReviewNotification.contactAction

.politeReviewLegacyRequest is only posted when a user is below 10.3.

Usage:

// Register your observer
NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(observedMethod(_:)), name: .politeReviewLoveAlert, object: nil)

// Method to handle your observer
@objc private func observedMethod(_ notification: Notification) {
    if let action = notification.userInfo?[PoliteReviewNotification.loveAlert] as? Bool {
        if action == true {
            // Do stuff when user likes your app - they may have left a rating
        } else {
            // Do stuff when user did not like your app
        }
}