IPad and Google

My family just bought a refurbished 3rd generation iPad. (2012) It has 64 gigabytes of SSD.
None of us have any experience with iOS devices. None of us have ever used the App Store.
I have a gmail account, but limited experience with Google beyond that. My parents have a Tracfone (pay-as-you-go by minutes) Android smartphone. They never activated any of the Google features on it. They do not have a gmail account. They are novice users of a MacBook Pro Retina 13-inch laptop running MacOS 10.9 at the moment. I do not think they ever activated an AppleID.
I was wondering what is available and do-able involving gmail and other Google services on the iPad. Since Android is not well supported on the Mac, I was wondering how to use Google services to share data across the MacBook, the Tracfone, and the iPad. Specifically, I was wondering if/how Apple's Contacts address book, Notes, Safari bookmarks and iCal/Calendar could be shared across all of these devices. Is there a practical way to use gmail, Google Calendar and GoogleVoice to do this?
What about text messaging on the Tracfone? Can this be ported to gmail so it could be accessed from all of these devices?

You can add your Gmail account to your iPad under Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendar. If you also add that account to your Mac, you can share contacts. You can use the Gmail address as the login when you create your Apple ID.
https://appleid.apple.com/account
If the Android phone that your parents have has the same Gmail address as the iPad and the MacBook, they can all share contacts. I've been doing that for years with my iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air and Android phone and Android tablet. You can add the Gmail account onto the Android device through Settings>Accounts (labels may vary by hardware manufacturer)>Add New Account.
You can use Google Hangouts for texting on the Android and the iPhone. Don't recall if it's available for iPads.
I also strongly recommend you review the information on the Support page:
http://www.apple.com/support/ipad/
There is a link to the manual there. It's surprisingly well written and designed for the non-techie. It's worth a read.
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