Can I use iMessage on my ipad but also send texts using my Android?

I currently have an Android phone, so all of my contacts send and receive SMS messages to me. I am planning to purchase an iPad for a long trip, so that I can use iMessage to talk with friends and family that have iPhones, rather than have to use WhatsApp or Viber.
I am concerned that once I send an iMessage to someone it will save my number as an iPhone and if I switch back to SMS during the trip at all, I won't receive any of their messages (I am aware there is an easy fix for this but I'd rather not have to fix it every time I switch between the two).
I was wondering if this would be something to worry about before my purchase.
If anyone has both an iPad and an Android, and uses both to communicate simultaneously any insight would be really helpful.
Thanks!

The iPad cannot use your Android phone number at all so it will not in any way be associated with the device or your Apple ID. You will be using your Apple ID email address as your connect address to use Messages. If you want to look at it this way, your iPad/iMessages will be associated with your Apple account/Apple ID, not with the Android phone number.
Where some users get into problems is if they go from an iPhone number to an Android phone number. That is not what you are doing.

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