iMessage Setup

This may not be the right place to ask this, but I am hoping to get help circumventing apple, and I figured this would be a good place to start at least.
I have an old Mac Mini I've been tinkering with. I'm hoping to get imessage working via texting. It works with the icloud account I made, but I do not have an iphone. I'm wondering if there's a way to use my android phone to register as the number? Or perhaps any other tricks you guys may have?

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