Android : Is there any benefit to using UUID over String for storing them in Android development?

I pass some guids over from my backend for my android app. I could easily go on with life and just treat it as a String. I never actually generate guids on the front-end, as there is no need. I treat them as guids in my database for storage purposes, but beyond that, it becomes very cumbersome on the Android side to pass my guid around as a UUID instead of a String.

Are there any benefits?