How to handle a click on the generated back button?

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Based on @eray’s solution, what I did was just to override $ionicGoBack in one of my controllers. Before doing so, I grabbed a handle to the default implementation - this can be used to call back into on completion of the custom code, or to deregister the custom handler at some point.

I place this code inside one of my controllers:

// override soft back button
// framework calls $rootScope.$ionicGoBack when soft back button is pressed
var oldSoftBack = $rootScope.$ionicGoBack;
$rootScope.$ionicGoBack = function() {
    // implement custom behaviour here
};

My requirement is controller specific, so I deregister the custom handle when the controller exits:

var deregisterSoftBack = function() {
    $rootScope.$ionicGoBack = oldSoftBack;
};

More details can be found on my related StackOverflow post:

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