grpc / grpc/grpc-java

binder: should use android.os.SharedMemory to transport large messages

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android binder enhancement
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Description

### Is your feature request related to a problem?
Both CPU and wall clock time of sending a message are dominated by the overhead of calling transact(). Today we need O(n) transactions where n is the size of the message.

### Describe the solution you'd like
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/SharedMemory could be used to send any sized message in O(1) binder transactions.

### Describe alternatives you've considered
Apps can already accomplish this using ParcelableMetadata, but it is cumbersome and prevents your app from working with other gRPC transports.

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