This is good: ion-nav-view with example code. From there I start adding pages, editing the HTML and JS, choosing new icons, and testing out the components and logic.
Can’t believe it took me a week to find this…
So what I did was ionic create app-name blank --type=ionic1 --cordova then put in the code from app.js and from inside the body tag in the example, pasted it into index.html. Then edit and cordova platform add android and so on as usual.
This seems to work so far…