How do you put a Rate This App link in a BT 1.4 Android app to open up app in the user's google play store app on their phone?

Perhaps: http://martin.cubeactive.com/?p=340 Or http://developer.anscamobile.com/forum/2012/01/06/rate-app-link-android-market Fred

It's amazing - this took me 5 minutes to solve for iOS version! It's taken me hours and hours in android and haven't got anywhere! @Fred - I saw all those links last night but I don't know how to implement them. I don't know where to place the code within the androidmanifest.xml and what it relates to in terms of where I place a market:// link in the bt 1.4 control panel. Need a step by step such as : 1. You enter this link into a custom url screen in bt 1.4 control panel 2. Here's the sample androidmanifest.xml and here's where the code has been inserted Etc

1. You enter this link into a custom url screen in bt 1.4 control panel The URL can be used as an HTML link, or Can be inserted into a .XML file. (For use if you're wanting the link to appear on every screen type of .XML file you modify.) Go with HTML hyperlink

Ok but the html link doesn't open up the google play app on the users phone, it goes to a slow loading google play web page I've tried putting market:// link in and it doesn't work on devices or simulator???

Do the bt 1.4 custom url and custom html pages not allow market:// links and do they restrict http links to google play pages from opening in google play store app even though they give you the option to open from google play store phone app when you click on a web browser link?

It's not a Buzztouch issue. The URL will work, IF, (and a mighty big if), you get the intent correct. Notice I didn't address part 2 of the question, and as I have said previously I still working on getting the URL to work. I was just providing the first piece of the puzzle. Hopefully someone will finish it. Fred

:) Ok thanks Fred

It's impossible to go directly to the rate/comment section, but it's easy enough to open the main screen of the app in google play. In BTv1.4 enter the market:// link in a custom url. I'll use the men in black 3 game: market://details?id=com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftMBHM Open your project in eclipse. In the src folder find and open the Act_ActivityBase.java file Go to around line 170 - this section of code: //url contains soundcloud if(jsonString.contains("soundcloud.com")){ useMyIntent = 0; } underneath it, add this code: //url contains market:// if(jsonString.contains("market://")){ useMyIntent = 0; } Save. Finished.

@raved, great info. I suppose this will with any app? Would you know how to start say a Google map screen in Buzztouch? Fred I'm thinking that it's impossible to call said map in Buzztouch with the URL because the way Buzztouch created the screen dynamically using the JSON data.

@fred - v1.5 and v2.0 are different. I've done it for both but need to refresh my memory! I think it's pretty much the code that you linked to at the top of the thread. Google map link.. Interesting. Don't know. Worth a play though!

Fantastic - thanks, Raveyd - I've started implementing this now... Think I'm going to have to publish a new version of my app on Google Play...

Yeah, you'll need to compile a new apk with the changes, but at least you'll know for the next app!

Fantastic - thanks, Raveyd - I've started implementing this now... Think I'm going to have to publish a new version of my app on Google Play...

Works in debug version - help greatly appreciated!!!

No problem!

Hi, Just tried the above code to activate the Junaio app. Using the following code- if(jsonString.contains("junaio")){ useMyIntent = 0; } This opens the Junaio app ok but does not seem to pass the channel data over from the url. When I put the code from Junaio in as a test - if(jsonString.contains("junaio")){ Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("junaio://channels/id=123456")); startActivity(intent); } The app opens Junaio, but not the channel until I use the back button. Was just testing here as obviously it's not pulling the correct url from the plugin. How do I get the app to parse the url properly? D