Ionic - View Leave Events Never Called

Question

After updating an existing Ionic project from 1.13-beta to 1.14-beta I\'ve experienced some behaviour I can\'t explain. When changing from one viewstate to another, the old

Answer 1

This is an open issue https://github.com/driftyco/ionic/issues/2869 and probably occurs when view-cache="false".

On my case $ionicView.leave worked in nested views but not when moving between tabs nor did $ionicParentView.leave so I came around it with another solution.

Solution: On MAIN controller I added:

$rootScope.$on('$stateChangeStart', function(event, toState, toParams, fromState, fromParams) {
     if (fromState.name === 'name-of-leaving-state') {

      //your code here, similar behavior with .$on('$ionicView.leave') 

     }
});

Hope it helps