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Fortnite requires an additional 7.4GB download
Fortnite is one of the most popular Battle Royale games. The game is available on multiple platforms, including PS4, PC, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Android, and iOS. For smartphones, the game was first introduced on iOS and then came to Android.
While iOS users could easily download the game through Apple’s App Store, Android users struggled to download the APK file from the Epic Games website. No longer. After more than 18 months, the company finally released the game on the Google Play Store. This means that users can now head to the store and simply press install to download the game to their phone.
Fortnite landed on the Google Play Store on April 20 and is available for free. The app itself has a download size of 107MB, but requires an additional 7.4GB download. It is also worth noting that if you want to play the game in “Epic” quality settings, the game will ask you to download the “HD Graphics”.
Fortnite said in a statement: “Google puts downloadable software outside of Google Play at a disadvantage, through technical and commercial measures such as scary and repetitive security pop-ups for downloaded and updated software, restrictive agreements and agreements from manufacturers and operators, relationships public services characterizing third-party software sources as malware, and new efforts like Google Play Protect to directly block software obtained outside of the Google Play store. “
Fortnite has been avoiding this for a long time as Google requires a 30 percent cut from developers to list apps on the Play Store.
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