CCU on your home screen: our island widget is open source

We check our island numbers a lot. Probably too much. Until this week, every “how’s Mando doing?” meant the same ritual: unlock the phone, open the browser, load the analytics page, wait, squint.

So we built the smallest tool that kills that ritual: a home-screen widget that shows live CCU for any Fortnite island. Glance at your phone, see the number, get back to work. Today we’re open-sourcing it — for both iOS and Android.

What it shows

• Island name — pulled automatically from Epic’s public data
• Live CCU — peak concurrent players of the most recent 10-minute interval
• Trend arrow (▲ / ▼) vs the previous interval
• 6-hour sparkline in the medium widget size
• Offline fallback — the last known value stays on screen if the network drops

Tapping the widget opens the island’s page on fortnite.gg. And it’s not limited to your own islands — any code works, so you can keep an eye on the whole Discover neighborhood.

Android: install in 1 minute

1. Download the APK and open it (Android will ask you to allow installs from your browser once).
2. Open Island CCU → Add widget to Home Screen.
3. Type the island code. Done.

iOS: install in 2 minutes

1. Get Scriptable from the App Store (free).
2. Open the script, select all, copy.
3. In Scriptable: tap +, paste, name it Island CCU.
4. Long-press your home screen → add a Scriptable widget (small or medium).
5. Long-press the widget → Edit Widget → Script: Island CCU, Parameter: your island code (dashes optional).

Either way, add several widgets with different codes and you’ve got a CCU dashboard on your home screen — your portfolio, your friends’ maps, your competition.

How it works

No API key, no login, no server. Epic exposes a public Ecosystem API that reports peak CCU in 10-minute intervals:

GET api.fortnite.com/ecosystem/v1/islands/{code}/metrics/minute/peak-ccu

Both widgets read the latest interval, grab the island’s title from the metadata endpoint, cache both, and refresh in the background — every ~10 minutes on iOS, ~15 on Android (that’s the OS minimum, not our choice). The iOS version is ~200 lines of commented JavaScript; the Android one is a small Kotlin app whose APK is built and signed by CI on every release.

Grab it

Everything lives on GitHub, MIT-licensed: github.com/novikit/fortnite-ccu-widget

If you build something on top of this — show us in Discord, we’d love to see it.