fix: pin android-core upper bound to prevent 6.0.0-rc.1 pull (#710)

[jamesnrokt]

Summary

• Closes New 6.0.0-rc.1 broke Android builds in React Native mparticle-android-sdk#710
• Replace open-ended [5.79.0, ) range with [5.79.0, 6.0) for the com.mparticle:android-core dependency in android/build.gradle.

Why

com.mparticle:android-core:6.0.0-rc.1 was published to Maven Central on 2026-05-22. The open-ended range resolves to the highest available version, which is now the RC. 6.x removed deprecated symbols including com.mparticle.UserAttributeListener (referenced by this module), so consumers who built successfully before 2026-05-22 are now broken with no change on their side:

error: cannot find symbol
import com.mparticle.UserAttributeListener;
                    ^
  symbol:   class UserAttributeListener

The bounded upper bound restores the previous behavior and gates 6.x adoption behind an explicit version bump in this module.

Test plan

• cd android && ./gradlew assembleRelease succeeds (was failing with cannot find symbol: UserAttributeListener).
• Consumer repro from issue #710 builds again after upgrading to the version that contains this fix.

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PR Summary

Low Risk
Gradle version-range only; no runtime logic changes, and it reduces accidental breakage from resolving 6.x RCs.

Overview
Pins the transitive com.mparticle:android-core dependency in android/build.gradle from an open-ended [5.79.0, ) range to [5.79.0, 6.0), with comments tying the cap to Maven Central resolving 6.0.0-rc.1 and 6.x dropping APIs such as UserAttributeListener (used by MParticleModule.kt).

This restores builds for apps that pull this React Native module without pinning core themselves, and defers adopting 6.x until this bridge is updated explicitly.

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Pull request overview

This PR aims to prevent Gradle from resolving com.mparticle:android-core to newly published 6.x pre-releases (notably 6.0.0-rc.1) by adding an upper bound to the dependency version range in the React Native mParticle Android module.

Changes:

• Add an upper bound to the com.mparticle:android-core dependency range in android/build.gradle.
• Add inline comments explaining why the upper bound was introduced (6.x removal of deprecated symbols).

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