Is there a way to check if a user really rated your application?

Question

I am writing a WP7 application and I have code to ask the user about viewing the market every five starts with an exponential deviation, so it is less annoying. If the user clicks “ok” in the “Do you want to view” message box, I run the browse task and I save that the user has viewed the application, so I don’t ask anymore.

var marketplaceReviewTask = new MarketplaceReviewTask(); marketplaceReviewTask.Show(); IsolatedStorageSettings.ApplicationSettings["HasReviewed"] = true; 

However, although they probably really appreciated the app, I'm not really 100% sure. Is there a way to check if the current user actually wrote a review? Does the MarketplaceReviewTask () property have a value of returnvalue? I could not find anything that would indicate that I could listen to him.

Answer 1

No, MarketplaceReviewTask does not have any events that return a value. The case with most Launcher tasks. Chooser tasks have events to collect information. As @willmel said in a comment, this is like an invasion of privacy.

Answer 2

You can create a check that will be checked locally if the user has previously rated the application. Take a look at the following code:

 public void reviewfunction() { //For Windows phone 8 app var settings = IsolatedStorageSettings.ApplicationSettings; //For windows phone 8.1 app or universal app use the following line of code //var settings = Windows.Storage.ApplicationData.Current.LocalSettings; //set the app name string Appname = "My app"; if (!settings.Contains("review")) { settings.Add("review", 1); settings.Add("rcheck", 0); } else { int no = Convert.ToInt32(settings["review"]); int check = Convert.ToInt32(settings["rcheck"]); no++; if ((no == 4 || no == 7 || no % 10 == 0) && check == 0) { settings["review"] = no; MessageBoxResult mm = MessageBox.Show("Thank you for using this application.\nWould you like to give some time to rate and review this application to help us improve", Appname, MessageBoxButton.OKCancel); if (mm == MessageBoxResult.OK) { settings["rcheck"] = 1; MarketplaceReviewTask rr = new MarketplaceReviewTask(); rr.Show(); } } else { settings["review"] = no; } } } 

Hope this helps you. Source code can be downloaded from here .