fix(expo): sync iOS native client via ClerkKit

[mikepitre]

Description

Fixes iOS native UI after a user signs in through the Expo JS SDK first.

In that flow, JS has the signed-in client token, but ClerkKit can still have stale native client state. The Expo bridge now passes the JS token to ClerkKit through the FrameworkIntegration SPI from clerk/clerk-ios#477.

This also removes the bridge's manual keychain handling. ClerkKit now owns the device-token write, cached-client invalidation, and refresh without a stale x-clerk-client-id; Expo only hands over the token and reads it back through ClerkKit.

Do not merge until clerk-ios is released with that SPI and CLERK_IOS_VERSION is bumped.

Changes

• Use Clerk.shared.updateDeviceToken(token) and Clerk.shared.deviceToken in the iOS bridge.
• Remove direct keychain reads/writes from the iOS bridge.
• Notify useNativeSession() after native client sync points so it does not show stale session state.
• Add focused tests for native session notifications.

Testing

pnpm --filter @clerk/expo test
pnpm --filter @clerk/expo format:check
pnpm --filter @clerk/expo lint

lint passes with the existing 15 warnings.

Checklist

• pnpm test runs as expected.
• pnpm build runs as expected.
• (If applicable) JSDoc comments have been added or updated for any package exports
• (If applicable) Documentation has been updated

Type of change

• 🐛 Bug fix
• 🌟 New feature
• 🔨 Breaking change
• 📖 Refactoring / dependency upgrade / documentation
• other:

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