Side Menu Android Hardware Back Button

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I have a minor issue on Android with the hardware back button on my app’s initial view while the side menu is open. I can get the side menu to close if you hit the back button while it is open but my app also exists after it closes. Is there a way to prevent this? Here is a snippet of what I’m trying to do that almost works -

.controller('Home', function($scope, $ionicSideMenuDelegate, $ionicPlatform) {
    $ionicPlatform.onHardwareBackButton(function() {
        if ($ionicSideMenuDelegate.isOpenLeft()) {
            $ionicSideMenuDelegate.toggleLeft();
        }
    });    
});

I have tried return false and preventDefault() in the back button event… no luck though, my app still exits after the side menu closes :~(

Thank you for all the amazing work on Ionic.

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How about making the side menu close on Android when the hardware back button is pressed? Most native Android app’s do this when a side menu is open.

This would be similar to this feature below that was added in beta 1.0.0-beta.3

$ionicPopup: on android, make back button close popup (b87bcb30, closes #1222)

Once again thanks for all the work on Ionic.

3

If you want, you can make and issue/feature request for this. Sounds like a good feature to have.

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4

Thank you. I added a feature request to the repo.