feat: Allow Client to Manually Call AppsFlyer Start

[nickolas-dimitrakas]

Background

• Duplicates changes from the standalone AppsFlyer kit repo into the monorepo (appsflyer-6).
• Source PR: feat: Allow Client to Manually Call Appsflyer Start mparticle-integrations/mparticle-apple-integration-appsflyer#51

What Has Changed

• Only call AppsFlyer start when the manualStart configuration flag is false (or absent)
• Remove setSharingFilterForPartners logic and the sharingFilterForPartnersFromConfiguration: method
• Add startCallCount tracking to AppsFlyerLibMock and new unit tests for didBecomeActive / manualStart behavior
• Added retry logic in pod lib lint jobs to combat rate limit

Checklist

• I have performed a self-review of my own code.
• I have made corresponding changes to the documentation.
• I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works.
• I have tested this locally.

Reference Issue (For employees only. Ignore if you are an outside contributor)

• NO JIRA

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PR Summary

Medium Risk
Changes when the AppsFlyer SDK is started and removes partner sharing-filter configuration, which may impact attribution/startup behavior for existing integrations. CI-only retry logic is low risk but could mask intermittent lint issues.

Overview
Adds a manualStart configuration option for the AppsFlyer kit so didBecomeActive only calls AppsFlyer start() when the flag is false or absent, enabling clients to start AppsFlyer themselves.

Removes the sharingFilterForPartners configuration parsing and the corresponding setSharingFilterForPartners call, and updates tests/mocks to assert the new manualStart start-call behavior.

Improves the pod lib lint GitHub Action by retrying the lint step up to 3 times with a delay to reduce flakiness.

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📦 SDK Size Impact Report

Measures how much the SDK adds to an app's size (with-SDK minus without-SDK).

Metric	Target Branch	This PR	Change
App Bundle Impact	1.66 MB	1.66 MB	+N/A
Executable Impact	896 bytes	896 bytes	+N/A
XCFramework Size	5.47 MB	5.47 MB	+N/A

➡️ SDK size impact change is minimal.

Raw measurements

Target branch (workstation/9.0-Release):

{"baseline_app_size_kb":84,"baseline_executable_size_bytes":75464,"with_sdk_app_size_kb":1788,"with_sdk_executable_size_bytes":76360,"sdk_impact_kb":1704,"sdk_executable_impact_bytes":896,"xcframework_size_kb":5604}

This PR:

{"baseline_app_size_kb":84,"baseline_executable_size_bytes":75464,"with_sdk_app_size_kb":1788,"with_sdk_executable_size_bytes":76360,"sdk_impact_kb":1704,"sdk_executable_impact_bytes":896,"xcframework_size_kb":5604}