> On Android, however, this is not as easy or straightforward and I cannot think of a way to do this, to be honest. That is why I prefer these programs to have

> On Android, however, this is not as easy or straightforward and I cannot think of a way to do this, to be honest. That is why I prefer these programs to have Tor bundled and run the hidden service by themselves with a hardened-enough torrc. Ricochet does this on desktop, which I think is the right way to go about this. SimpleX's server (https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq) should do this. What I do is run Wireguard on my server with a Tor daemon, connect to the WG network on my phone and then access the SOCKS and DNS proxies the Tor daemon exposes. That way there is no need for Orbot or running Tor on Android at all.