Is it possible to add global SOCKS support for all requests in Android app?

[DMantis]

It seems while there is an option to wrap all price/exchanges into TOR connection, it requires Orbot to run in VPN mode.

That's very inconvenient. To use TOR this way, a user who uses another VPN must:

• disable their currently running VPN
• enable Orbot in VPN mode
• use the app
• disable Orbot
• enable their VPN

Android Orbot supports "Advanced mode" which doesn't use the VPN interfaces but only exposes local SOCKS on "127.0.0.1:9050". This way, a user can run Orbot and VPN at the same time in the background without constant switching, set the SOCKS proxy once in the app and use it as usual on demand without other actions.

The application already has SOCKS support (for Monero nodes connections). Is it hard to add global SOCKS support so all requests could be routed through Orbot in proxy mode?

[MrCyjaneK]

tracked in #1950 (partially)