INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Fortnite journey to Android has been a complicated one
A few months back, Epic Games promised to bring the wildly popular survival sandbox title to the mobile OS, but only after sidestepping the
traditional process for doing so
Fittingly, while it now appears to be live for Android, the process of actually getting the game is, well, complicated
If you want to get started, you&ll need to sign up for a beta of the game
That right, while the title has been up and running on any number of other platforms (including its three-day head start on Samsung
devices), it still in beta on Android
Give Epic your email address, and they&ll send you an invite…&as soon as you can play.
How soon is that Well, there appears to be a
waiting list at the moment
How long all of this will take is anyone guess, though the company says it can take &a few days& for all of it to go through
Since the whole thing is bypassing the Google Play store (much to Google chagrin), you&ll need to install the Fortnite Installer APK to
install Fortnite the game
I went through a similar process to get the game on the Note 9
It weird and kind of annoying, but when it done, it done
Oh, and you&ll want to make sure your phone is compatible
Epic got the full list here, which seems to include a pretty broad range, including Pixel devices and handsets from Huawei, LG, Nokia,
OnePlus, Xiaomi, ZTE and Razer
