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refactor(android): move cleartext opt-out into a networkSecurityConfig — #2439
`android:usesCleartextTraffic="true"` sat on <application> as a bare opt-out of
the platform's network-security default, with nothing recorded about why. It's
now a res/xml/network_security_config.xml carrying the same permission and the
reasoning behind it.

Behaviour is unchanged. networkSecurityConfig supersedes the attribute on API
24+ and our minSdk is 26, so the attribute is removed rather than kept
alongside.

Cleartext stays permitted because two independent things need it, and neither
can be narrowed to a domain list:

- The Minstrel server's host is user-entered at runtime, and plenty of
  self-hosters run plain HTTP on a LAN.
- UPnP/DLNA/Sonos — device-description and SOAP control URLs arrive in SSDP
  responses at runtime and are plain HTTP essentially always. This one wasn't in
  the original ticket, which only considered the server; it independently rules
  out the "tighten it later to RFC1918" idea, since <domain-config> matches
  literal hostnames, not CIDR ranges, and renderer IPs are unknowable ahead of
  time.

Trust anchors deliberately left at the platform default. Adding
<certificates src="user" /> would let self-hosters use HTTPS with a private CA —
which Mihon does, and which suits this product — but it also trusts every CA on
the device including a corporate MITM proxy. Raised separately rather than
assumed as a default.

tools:ignore="InsecureBaseConfiguration" mirrors Mihon's config and keeps
lintVitalRelease quiet about a choice that is deliberate and now documented.
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