How to Open App Store in React Native

Sometimes you need to redirect App Store to download force update or something else. Its very easy to do in React Native.

For this purpose we are going to use Linking from React Native core. It means no additional package needed.

But we need to add  one configuration to app Info.plist file. Its help us to open App Store directly.

<key>LSApplicationQueriesSchemes</key>
<array>
    <string>itms-apps</string>
</array>

After adding this config and recompiling the app We can open App store with Linking

import React from 'react';
import {
  StyleSheet,
  Button,
  SafeAreaView,
  Linking,
} from 'react-native';

const App = () => {
  const openAppStore = () => {
    const link =
      'itms-apps://apps.apple.com/tr/app/times-tables-lets-learn/id1055437768?l=tr';
    Linking.canOpenURL(link).then(
      (supported) => {
        supported && Linking.openURL(link);
      },
      (err) => console.log(err)
    );
  };
  return (
    <SafeAreaView style={styles.container}>
      <Button title="Open App Store" onPress={openAppStore} />
    </SafeAreaView>
  );
};

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    justifyContent: 'center',
    marginHorizontal: 16,
  },
});

export default App;