But if your expectations are low enough you can just use an HTML-based framework like Cordova.

Companies who have such low expectations already have alternatives in the form of a WebView with extra bells and whistles, like cordova or any of the numerous JS-based native-but-not-really frameworks and libraries. This is just one more among many, many similar alternatives.

NativeScript: The Framework for developers with low expectations!

Big corporations doing off shore development with low expectations are already use the web view based solutions.