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Robert
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It is well known that Android uses the Linux user system as simple sandbox system to separate the apps form each other.

As far as I remember the part after the underscore is simply the Linux user id in hex representation.

The user accounts are created dynamically on app installation and then saved to a XML file where this and many more details if all installed apps are recorded. This way Android can lookup which app belongs to which uid and the other way round.

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