‘Fortnite’ on Android: How to download, list of supported devices

Antonio Villas-Boas/Business
Insider

• “Fortnite” arrives on Android on Thursday.
• The game is free as always, but only available on a
  handful of Samsung devices at first.
• It’s coming to a variety of other Android devices in
  the coming days, including Google’s Pixel line and LG’s G
  phones.

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The biggest game in the world is finally coming to the biggest
mobile platform in the world: “Fortnite” launches on Android
starting on Thursday.

In a bizarre move that was
previously rumored, the game’s only available on Samsung’s
lineup of Galaxy devices (the S7 / S7 Edge , S8 / S8+, S9 /
S9+, Note 8, Note 9, Tab S3, and Tab S4) initially. In the
“next few days” the game will arrive on a wider variety of
Android phones, from Google’s Pixel phones to LG’s line of G
phones (and more).

Epic Games, the maker of “Fortnite,” says players can sign up for
access to “Fortnite” on Android through this
website.

Epic
Games

Unlike most Android games,
“Fortnite” is skipping Google’s Play Store.

Instead, you’ll download the game directly through Epic’s website
— updates will be served to the game directly from Epic, thus
enabling faster fixes. As a major bonus to Epic Games, all the
money made through “Fortnite” on Android goes directly to Epic
without having to pay the 30% cut Google takes from Google Play
Store games. 

Though we’ve yet to play “Fortnite” on Android, it should operate
very similarly to how the game already operates on iPhone.

As seen above on an iPhone X, controls are represented as virtual
buttons on-screen. It’s otherwise the same insane game you can
play on PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One: A
100-player fight to the death in an environment that’s getting
smaller over time.

Here’s the full list of supported Android devices for “Fortnite”:

• Google: Pixel / Pixel XL, Pixel 2 / Pixel 2 XL
• Asus: ROG Phone, Zenfone 4 Pro, 5Z, V
• Essential: PH-1
• Huawei: Honor 10, Honor Play, Mate 10 / Pro, Mate RS, Nova 3,
  P20 / Pro, V10
• LG: G5, G6, G7 ThinQ, V20, V30 / V30+
• Nokia: 8
• OnePlus: 5 / 5T, 6
• Razer: Phone
• Xiaomi: Blackshark, Mi 5 / 5S / 5S Plus, 6 / 6 Plus, Mi 8 / 8
  Explorer / 8SE, Mi Mix, Mi Mix 2, Mi Mix 2S, Mi Note 2
• ZTE: Axon 7 / 7s, Axon M, Nubia / Z17 / Z17s, Nubia Z11