Support React Native 0.87

[m-bert]

Description

This PR brings support for React Native 0.87

Status

• 0.87.0-rc.0 ✅

Test plan

Tested that basic-example builds and works correctly.

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Pull request overview

This PR updates the monorepo’s development and example-app setup to align with React Native 0.87.0-rc.0, including corresponding tooling upgrades for Android, iOS pods, and TypeScript.

Changes:

• Bump React Native and React Native tooling/presets to 0.87.0-rc.0 in the library dev setup and basic-example.
• Update basic-example TypeScript configuration for TS 6 (and align tsconfig types with other apps).
• Refresh basic-example native build tooling: Gradle wrapper/SDK levels, Gradle properties, and iOS Podfile.lock.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 8 out of 11 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

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File	Description
packages/react-native-gesture-handler/package.json	Updates RN-related devDependencies used for local development/tests to 0.87.0-rc.0.
apps/basic-example/tsconfig.json	TS config updates for TS 6 and removes Jest types from the app’s TS compilation context.
apps/basic-example/package.json	Bumps RN + RN toolchain (CLI/presets/configs) and upgrades TypeScript to ~6.0.3.
apps/basic-example/ios/Podfile.lock	Updates iOS pod resolution for RN 0.87.0-rc.0 and related native deps.
apps/basic-example/android/gradlew	Updates the Gradle wrapper script reference URL comment to a pinned Gradle commit.
apps/basic-example/android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties	Updates the Gradle distribution version used by the example app.
apps/basic-example/android/gradle.properties	Enables edge-to-edge and adds AGP 9 opt-out flags.
apps/basic-example/android/build.gradle	Updates Android SDK/build tools and Kotlin version used by the example app build.
apps/basic-example/android/app/build.gradle	Switches default ProGuard file to the optimized variant.

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