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If you set up proxy settings for an android device, do they apply to all apps on the device including the browser? Or do they only apply to the browser?
The reason I ask is that when you go to change the proxy settings on an android device there is this message, and it is confusing me:
"HTTP proxy use by browser but may not be used by other applications" 
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Android allows you to configure proxy settings for each Wi-Fi network. This is sometimes required to access the Internet on a business or school network, for example. Your browser traffic will be sent through the proxy you configure.
There are three ways your app can receive data sent by another app: An Activity with a matching intent-filter tag in the manifest. One or more ChooserTarget objects returned by your ChooserTargetService.
No, they do not apply globally and without root there is no way to force a proxy to be used by all applications. The reason the message you found is worded that way is that it is up to the app creator to respect the proxy settings and use them or do the wrong thing and ignore them.
If you happen to be rooted, you can use this app which will apply the proxy settings to all apps and activities.
The reason that this is not the default behavior is because it could present some security risks. If all traffic could be redirected, users could have all of their traffic be going through some bad proxy server that snoops on them so they default to only allowing apps to use proxy if they explicitly ask for it.
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Try postern. It redirect all the traffic to a local vpn and support:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tunnelworkshop.postern
https://android.izzysoft.de/applists.php?topic=cat;id=109
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