Android hardware menu button

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The Cordova team removed support for the menu button in their libraries a while ago, as discovered here:

Android hardware menu button not working with Cordova 5.1.1 and Ionic 1.1.0

Android hardware menu button event 'menubutton' does not seem to be firing on document. I have tried adding event listeners in a .run() block as most people recommend and also in a .controller() but to no avail. .controller(function($document, $ionicSideMenuDelegate){ var menuButtonFn = function(){ console.log('in controller'); $ionicSideMenuDelegate.toggleLeft(); }; $document.on('menubutton', menuButtonFn); document.addEventListener("menubutton", menuButtonFn, false); }) .r…