React-Native: How to open google play store from react native app?

Question

I am trying to find a way how to open the google play store with my application when the user is pressing a button inside of the react-native application. Is there a way how to

Answer 1

You can use deeplinking to redirect your user from your app using this: https://developer.android.com/distribute/tools/promote/linking.html

and the Linking API from react-native: http://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/linking.html

Answer 2

If people are too lazy to read through the annoyingly SPA dev docs of android:

market://details?id=<package_name>

In react-native land:

Linking.openURL("market://details?id=<package_name>");

Example:

Linking.openURL("market://details?id=googoo.android.btgps");

Edit: Make sure to import Linking in order to use it

import { View, Text, StyleSheet, Linking } from 'react-native';