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Fortnite for Android Sures 15 Million Installs; iOS Players to Get Performance Fix 'Soon'

Fortnite for Android Sures 15 Million Installs; iOS Players to Get Performance Fix 'Soon' 46i4p

By Jagmeet Singh | Updated: 8 September 2018 17:00 IST

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Highlights

Epic Games has revealed some key insights on Fortnite's Android version
The game has crossed the record of 15 million installs
The company is also fixing the performance on iOS

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"While we are in an invite-only phase for Android, our conversion from players being invited to playing is similar to that of the iOS beta," the Epic Games team writes in a blog post.

Unlike its iOS counterpart that is available for directly through the App Store, Fortnite for Android isn't available through separately highlighting the fact that the Fortnite game isn't available on Google Play. Further, the company claims that to date, it has taken down as many as 47 malware sites.

The initial journey of Fortnite for Android was started with Galaxy Note 9. "Samsung sent engineers to multiple Epic offices worldwide and worked directly with our engineers on optimisations and performance analysis, and contributed many code changes especially for the Vulkan renderer. Using instrumented test phones and their in-house engineering tools, they were able to give us insight into what our performance and memory bottlenecks were and how to address them," Epic Games states.

Apart from its initial partnership with Samsung, Epic Games worked with Google to optimise Fortnite for the Android ecosystem. The company also worked with partners such as HiSilicon to test and optimise the game on different hardware specifications.

Fragmentation Android 7.0 Nougat, and less than 0.5 percent are on a version of Android released in 2015 or earlier. To manage the complexity of the platform, the company used a hierarchical device profile system in Unreal Engine and created four performance profiles, namely Low, Mid, High, and Epic. This helps to adjust scalability settings in the engine and optimise the experience according to the hardware. "On top of this, we have a set of GPU profiles, e.g. Adreno 54x and Mali G72. These GPU profiles choose a performance profile that best fits the hardware's capabilities as well as allowing us to enable optimisations or workarounds needed for that specific hardware. Finally we have a set of device-specific profiles, e.g. Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Adreno and Google Pixel 2 XL. This final layer of device profiles allow us to enable further workarounds or optimisations on specific devices where needed," the company adds.

While Epic Games is busy in improving the experience on Android, it is also fixing the performance on iOS. The company in a Reddit post confirmed that it has fixed the issues that are making the iOS performance in a rough state and is working on getting a patch out soon. "We know you're eager to get started on those High Stakes Challenges and try out the Gateway LTM. We'll let you know as soon as we have an update for when the patch will go live," the company said in the Reddit post.

It is unclear that when the updated Fortnite for iOS will hit the App Store. Nevertheless, Epic Games has shown that apart from its interest towards expanding Fortnite's presence on Android, it is equally focusing on improving the experience for iOS s. This is important as the company aims to defeat PUBG Mobile that has over three million players in the US alone.

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