Upgrade react-native to 0.79.6

[luckygoyal-bitmovin]

• Bump react-native 0.76.5 → 0.79.6, react-native-tvos 0.76.5-0 → 0.79.7-0
• Bump react 18.3.1 → 19.2.3 (required by RN 0.79)
• Bump @react-native-community/cli 15.0.1 → 18.0.0
• Bump @react-native/babel-preset 0.76.5 → 0.79.6 across all engines
• Bump react-native-gesture-handler 2.21.2 → 2.22.0 (ReactPackage interface change)
• Bump react-native-permissions 5.2.1 → 5.5.1 (Kotlin null safety)
• Bump react-native-safe-area-context 5.0.0 → 5.3.0 (Yoga 3.x API change)
• Bump react-native-windows 0.76.2 → 0.79.5
• Update NDK version to 27.1.12297006
• Update kotlinVersion to 2.0.21 to align with RN 0.79 gradle plugin
• Update iOS minimum deploymentTarget to 15.1
• Fix settings.gradle templates for androidtv/firetv/androidwear (remove stale native_modules.gradle reference removed in cli-platform-android@18)
• Fix setInterval type in exec.ts for React 19 / updated @types/node
• Pin castFrameworkVersion to 21.4.0 in app-harness to avoid Kotlin metadata incompatibility with play-services-cast-framework 22.x

Description

• Upgrading Renative to support ReactNative 0.79.6

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[luckygoyal-bitmovin]

Hi @pavjacko and @mihaiblaga89 , can you please approve the CI test workflow to run for this PR. Thanks in advance for your help in moving the PR forward.

[RicardasN]

Updated the target to currently temporary working branch that has the latest updates, but I see some issues running app-harness:

web:

Browserslist: caniuse-lite is outdated. Please run:
  npx update-browserslist-db@latest
  Why you should do it regularly: https://github.com/browserslist/update-db#readme
   Disabled SWC as replacement for Babel because of custom Babel configuration "babel.config.js" https://nextjs.org/docs/messages/swc-disabled
 ✓ Ready in 4s
   Using external babel configuration from /Users/ricardasnoreika/Documents/renative/packages/app-harness/babel.config.js
 ○ Compiling / ...
 ⨯ ../../node_modules/next/dist/client/index.js:39:58
Module not found: Can't resolve 'react-dom/client'

https://nextjs.org/docs/messages/module-not-found

Import trace for requested module:
../../node_modules/next/dist/client/next-dev.js

I think some things are still missing for this to be ready to merge unfortunately