I’ve been stuck on this for a day now, any help would be massively helpful! 
So, I created a new app using the tab bar example from ionic. All lovely. I’ve added some new pages/views and got those working too.
I am now trying to setup a redirect on the scope.location however that wasn’t working. I’ve taken a step back and just tried to show {{location}} in any page or view but it appears location isn’t being shown anywhere, it is always blank.
Main files below:
So, my app.js isn’t much different from the default template
// Ionic Starter App
// angular.module is a global place for creating, registering and retrieving Angular modules
// 'starter' is the name of this angular module example (also set in a <body> attribute in index.html)
// the 2nd parameter is an array of 'requires'
// 'starter.services' is found in services.js
// 'starter.controllers' is found in controllers.js
// here we add our modules first then after that we start up our main app/module of 'starter' in the brackets to the right of that we have to include the modules that we want to load in too
angular.module('AuthApp', []);
angular.module('starter', ['ionic', 'starter.controllers', 'starter.services', 'AuthApp'])
.run(function($ionicPlatform,$rootScope,$location) {
$rootScope.place = $location;
$ionicPlatform.ready(function() {
// Hide the accessory bar by default (remove this to show the accessory bar above the keyboard
// for form inputs)
if(window.cordova && window.cordova.plugins.Keyboard) {
cordova.plugins.Keyboard.hideKeyboardAccessoryBar(true);
}
if(window.StatusBar) {
// org.apache.cordova.statusbar required
StatusBar.styleDefault();
}
});
})
.config(function($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider) {
// Ionic uses AngularUI Router which uses the concept of states
// Learn more here: https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router
// Set up the various states which the app can be in.
// Each state's controller can be found in controllers.js
$stateProvider
// setup an abstract state for the tabs directive
.state('tab', {
url: "/tab",
abstract: true,
templateUrl: "templates/tabs.html"
})
// Each tab has its own nav history stack:
.state('tab.friends', {
url: '/friends',
views: {
'tab-friends': {
templateUrl: 'templates/tab-friends.html',
controller: 'FriendsCtrl'
}
}
})
.state('tab.friend-detail', {
url: '/friend/:friendId',
views: {
'tab-friends': {
templateUrl: 'templates/friend-detail.html',
controller: 'FriendDetailCtrl'
}
}
})
.state('tab.me', {
url: '/me',
views: {
'tab-me': {
templateUrl: 'templates/tab-me.html',
controller: 'meCtrl'
}
}
})
.state('tab.settings', {
url: '/settings',
views: {
'tab-settings': {
templateUrl: 'templates/tab-settings.html',
controller: 'SettingsCtrl'
}
}
})
.state('signup', {
url: '/signup',
templateUrl: 'templates/signup.html',
controller: 'SignupCtrl'
})
.state('login', {
url: '/login',
templateUrl: 'templates/login.html',
controller: 'LoginCtrl'
})
.state('firstview', {
url: '/firstview',
templateUrl: 'templates/firstview.html',
controller: 'FirstviewCtrl'
})
// if none of the above states are matched, use this as the fallback
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/firstview');
});
I’ve tried to make $rootScope.place = $location; so I can then put {{place}} in my pages and have it show the location, but that isn’t working. If I set it to a string it shows up just fine, which makes me think the app isn’t getting anything for $location.
I don’t know why I am having such a hard time trying to work out this location and redirecting stuff so fingers crossed someone will be able to help get me on track. I’ve managed to work out quite a lot on my own already so this hold up as been frustrating.
If there is any other information or clarity I can give, please ask