Persist Star Rating and Comments to the google play store

Question

I'm currently implementing a rate-it feature in an app.

So I'll have a simple dialog with 2 buttons, rate-it and no thanks, if the user clicks rate-it they are shown another dialog with a Rating Bar and a edittext to leave a comment. Upon clicking OK they are taken to the play-store via

  context.startActivity(Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("market://details?id=" +
                                    APP_PACKAGE)))

However I don't know how to bundle up their rating and comment and apply to my app's rating fields within the google play store. Is this even possible on Android?

Thanks

Answer 1

There is no way you can pass the ratings from within your app to Google Play.

If anything like that existed, then everybody would've misused it by having a check in their app like,

if(rating>=4){ 
    sendDataToPlayStore()
}else{
    takeFeedbackFromUser() 
}

That would naturally inflate apps ratings in Play Store, which is not what Play Store is aiming for.

So no, it's not possible, and I can definitely say that it wont be possible in near future to avoid spam.