After an initial beta period, Fortnite is finally more widely available on Android, with Epic Games deciding at long last to bring it to the Google Play Store.
Here, then is how to install it onto your device.
Fortnite for Android minimum spec
While Fortnite isn’t the single most graphically intensive phone game out there, it’s still pretty heavy duty, so there are some minimum specs that your phone will need to play it. If your phone matches or exceeds these, it should still be able to run Fortnite:
- OS: Recommended Android 8.0 or higher, 64 bit
- RAM: 4GB or higher
- GPU: Adreno 530 or higher, Mali-G71 MP20, Mali-G72 MP12 or higher
Sign up to play
Once you know you have a compatible handset, you can head to Epic Games’ website and create a Fortnite account. You can do this in the game app itself, but it’s quicker and easier to do it separately, for our money. If you already have an account because you’ve played the game on another platform before, you can use that instead.
Either way, just enter it when you start the app for the first time.
How to install the app
Here’s the best part – this used to be a more complicated process, involving installing an app that Google technically didn’t approve, but all that’s in the past. Epic has put Fortnite on the Google Play Store, meaning you can download it easily, right here.
Once it’s installed, open it up, log in and you can game to your heart’s content, right on your Android phone.