Yeah I wasn’t saying that would work, just that some way of hacking that could work.
I would just use override the styling in the config provider.
$ionicConfigProvider.tabs.position("bottom");
$ionicConfigProvider.tabs.style("standard");
$ionicConfigProvider.navBar.alignTitle("center");
or, if you only want to override android:
$ionicConfigProvider.platform.android.tabs.position("bottom");
$ionicConfigProvider.platform.android.tabs.style("standard");
$ionicConfigProvider.platform.android.navBar.alignTitle('center');