title: How to set Alarm in Android programmatically?
body: <p>Following is my code can Any body please tell me why it is not working .I have learned it from  <a href="http://androidgenuine.com/?tag=alarmreceiver-excellent-tutorial" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this tutorial</a>.  But it is not working any help will be appreciable.</p>
  
  <p>My code is</p>
  
  <pre><code>import java.util.Calendar;
  
  import android.app.Activity;
  import android.app.AlarmManager;
  import android.app.ListActivity;
  import android.app.Notification;
  import android.app.NotificationManager;
  import android.app.PendingIntent;
  import android.content.Context;
  import android.content.Intent;
  import android.os.Bundle;
  import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
  import android.widget.Button;
  import android.widget.ListView;
  import android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener;
  import android.widget.Toast;
  
  
  public class Notify extends Activity {
      Button btn;
  
      /** Called when the activity is first created. */
      public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
          super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  
          setContentView(R.layout.nit);
          Calendar cal=Calendar.getInstance();
          cal.set(Calendar.MONTH,6);
          cal.set(Calendar.YEAR,2011);
          cal.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH,29);
          cal.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY,17);
          cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE,30);
  
          //String[] dude=new String[] {"nitin","avi","aman","rahul","pattrick","minkle","manmohan","nitin","nitin"};
  
          //setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter&lt;String&gt;(this, android.R.layout.simple_expandable_list_item_1,dude));
          //getListView().setTextFilterEnabled(true);
  
          //String[] dude1=new String[] {"nitin","avi","aman","rahul","pattrick","minkle","manmohan"};
  
          Intent intent = new Intent(this, Mote.class);
          PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this.getApplicationContext(), 1253, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT|  Intent.FILL_IN_DATA);
  
          AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);
  
          alarmManager.set(AlarmManager.RTC_WAKEUP, cal.getTimeInMillis(),pendingIntent );
          Toast.makeText(this, "Alarm worked.", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
      }
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>and my Receiver class is</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>import android.app.Notification;
  import android.app.NotificationManager;
  import android.app.PendingIntent;
  import android.content.BroadcastReceiver;
  import android.content.Context;
  import android.content.Intent;
  import android.widget.Toast;
  
  public class Mote extends BroadcastReceiver{
  
      public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
          // TODO Auto-generated method stub
  
          Toast.makeText(context, "Alarm worked.", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
          int icon = R.drawable.icon;
          CharSequence tickerText = "Hello you have to take medicine I am Nitin Sharma";
          long when = System.currentTimeMillis();
  
          //Notification notification = new Notification(icon, tickerText,when );
  
          CharSequence contentTitle = "My notification";
          CharSequence contentText = "Hello World!";
  
  
          //notification.setLatestEventInfo(context, contentTitle, contentText, contentIntent);
          final int NOTIF_ID = 1234;
          NotificationManager notofManager = (NotificationManager)context. getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
          // Notification note = new Notification(R.drawable.face,"NEW ACTIVITY", System.currentTimeMillis());
          Intent notificationIntent = new Intent(context, Alset.class);
          PendingIntent contentIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(context,0, notificationIntent, 0);
          Notification notification = new Notification(icon, tickerText,when );
          //Notification notification1 = new Notification(R.drawable.icon, "Wake up alarm", System.currentTimeMillis());
          notification.setLatestEventInfo(context, contentTitle, contentText, contentIntent);
          notification.flags = Notification.FLAG_INSISTENT;
          notification.defaults |= Notification.DEFAULT_SOUND;
          //notification.setLatestEventInfo(context, "My Activity", "This will runs on button click", contentIntent);
          notofManager.notify(NOTIF_ID,notification);
  
          //PendingIntent contentIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(context, 0, new Intent(context, MainActivity.class), 0);
          //notification.setLatestEventInfo(context, "Context Title", "Context text", contentIntent);
          //notification.flags = Notification.FLAG_INSISTENT;
      }
  
  
  
  }
  </code></pre>