Im trying to publish an Adview ad to my app. The problem is, a particular section only uses an expandable list adaptor programatically for its layout, and no xml or layouts are used at all. Looking at the examples, it seems that you need a layout to apply the ad to:
http://code.google.com/mobile/ads/docs/android/fundamentals.html
Is there a way to do this without a layout?
You can definitely place the ad programmatically. Look at this answer here to a similar SO question.