Question: This works on bash

```
for i in {1..5}; do echo $i; done

```

the out put is
1
2
3
4
5
But on android shell
the output is 
{1..5}

Answer: 
```
i=0; while [ $(($i)) -le 5 ]; do i=$(($i + 1)); echo $i; done;

```

Tested on adb shell in Galaxy Tab 4 7" -- Thanks to Lynch for most of the answer. 'expr fails in default shell.
If your sequence isn't too large, you can just list out the values of interest. So in the default Android ADB shell:

```
for i in 1 2 3; do echo $i; done

Returns:
1
2
3

```

or:

```
for i in 5 11 7; do echo $i; done

Returns:
5
11
7

```

or even:

```
for i in apple orange banana; do echo $i; done

Returns:
apple
orange
banana

```