await inAppReview.requestReview() doesn't work in Android. Dialog doesn't appear

[norutplz]

iOS works fine but in Android requestReview dialog doesn't appear.

Code:

final InAppReview inAppReview = InAppReview.instance;
final bool isAvailable = await inAppReview.isAvailable();
print(isAvailable);
 if (isAvailable) {
 await inAppReview.requestReview();                          
 }

I don't know why it is not working because await inAppReview.isAvailable() returns true and console prints are fine too:

I/InAppReviewPlugin(27224): onMethodCall: isAvailable
I/InAppReviewPlugin(27224): isAvailable: called
I/InAppReviewPlugin(27224): noContextOrActivity: called
I/InAppReviewPlugin(27224): isAvailable: playStoreInstalled: true
I/InAppReviewPlugin(27224): isAvailable: lollipopOrLater: true
I/InAppReviewPlugin(27224): isAvailable: The Play Store is available and Android 5 or later is being used
I/InAppReviewPlugin(27224): cacheReviewInfo: called
I/InAppReviewPlugin(27224): noContextOrActivity: called
I/PlayCore(27224): UID: [10551] PID: [27224] ReviewService : requestInAppReview (com...........)
I/InAppReviewPlugin(27224): cacheReviewInfo: Requesting review flow
I/PlayCore(27224): UID: [10551] PID: [27224] ReviewService : Initiate binding to the service.
I/PlayCore(27224): UID: [10551] PID: [27224] ReviewService : ServiceConnectionImpl.onServiceConnected(ComponentInfo{com.android.vending/com.google.android.finsky.inappreviewservice.InAppReviewService})
I/PlayCore(27224): UID: [10551] PID: [27224] ReviewService : linkToDeath
I/PlayCore(27224): UID: [10551] PID: [27224] OnRequestInstallCallback : onGetLaunchReviewFlowInfo
I/PlayCore(27224): UID: [10551] PID: [27224] ReviewService : Unbind from service.
I/InAppReviewPlugin(27224): onComplete: Successfully requested review flow
I/flutter (27224): true
I/InAppReviewPlugin(27224): onMethodCall: requestReview
I/InAppReviewPlugin(27224): requestReview: called
I/InAppReviewPlugin(27224): noContextOrActivity: called
I/InAppReviewPlugin(27224): launchReviewFlow: called
I/InAppReviewPlugin(27224): noContextOrActivity: called

[KayesAshfaQ]

I'm also facing the same issue.

[grizzly]

Same here

[DaxeshV]

Same issue for me also.

[farhan-ibrahim]

does your app available in Play Store? Based on documentation you need to upload your app to Play Store before you can test this function

[mathrocco]

I guess I found the reason for the Android issues. On Android setup guidelines says to add the Gradle dependency to integrate the Play In-App Review Library. This is missing in the package install documentation.

// In-App-Review dependecies. More info https://developer.android.com/guide/playcore/in-app-review/kotlin-java#java
implementation 'com.google.android.play:review:2.0.1'
implementation 'com.google.android.play:review-ktx:2.0.1'

The lack of this dependencies is the reason why this only works for some devices, where probably vendors ships these dependencies by default.

In my case, these are the main devices that probably ship these gradle dependency by default:

After those changes the in-app-review start to appear properly

Testing this was very tricky. What worked to me was not to use the company email (it is restricted to review banner display) and upload the app using internal testing track.

Hope it helps you 🤞🏼

[mathrocco]

Just opened the PR with the Android setup instructions: #100

[grizzly]

This really works! Thanks for that!

[NecJoy]

await inAppReview.requestReview() doesn't work in Android. Dialog doesn't appear

[classycircle]

It is still not working for me using the internal test.
Anyone has any updates on this?

[jimmy0251]

The dependency is already added in android module's build.gradle

in_app_review/in_app_review/android/build.gradle

Line 53 in 1d6e3c5

implementation 'com.google.android.play:review:2.0.1'

Not sure if adding it again would make any difference.

[wepashka]

It didn't work for me too. Any solution?

[Fintasys]

I have the same issue, adding the dependencies directly also didn't solve it for me. It showed up one and then never again.

[britannio]

I have the same issue, adding the dependencies directly also didn't solve it for me. It showed up one and then never again.

If it shows up once then there isn't an issue with the dependencies and the plugin is likely working as expected. See the mention of quotas in the README.

[wepashka]

Yes; It's right

[Fintasys]

Play store gave me a warning that my app couldn't be released because the button with the app review wasn't working. I don't think the issue relates to quotas. I saw some caching mechanism in your code but since testing on Android is so troublesome I couldn't check if that's the problem, yet.

[britannio]

Play store gave me a warning that my app couldn't be released because the button with the app review wasn't working. I don't think the issue relates to quotas. I saw some caching mechanism in your code but since testing on Android is so troublesome I couldn't check if that's the problem, yet.

Based on the quota documentation:

you should not have a call-to-action option (such as a button) to trigger the API, as a user might have already hit their quota and the flow won’t be shown, presenting a broken experience to the user. For this use case, redirect the user to the Play Store instead.

So if you have a review button in your app, it should use openStoreListing() to reliably let users leave a review.

[Fintasys]

So if you have a review button in your app, it should use openStoreListing() to reliably let users leave a review.

So... if that's the case, I'm missing the point of this package 🤔

[britannio]

So if you have a review button in your app, it should use openStoreListing() to reliably let users leave a review.

So... if that's the case, I'm missing the point of this package 🤔

Sorry but it's Apple's and Google's decision to nerf the main feature.

Assuming that the rating pop-up always trigger once and only once is good enough to boost your app ratings though.