How to place ionic tabs at the bottom of the scree

Question

I created a simple ionic-tabs that shows my icons at the top of the screen. I tried to wrap it in a ionic-footer-bar in order to have it placed at the bottom of the screen with no success. The tabs disappear when I do that. How should I accomplish the looks I want?

<ion-footer-bar>
    <ion-tabs class="tabs-icon-only tabs-stable">
    ...
    </ion-tabs>
</ion-footer-bar>

Answer 1

In side the app.js file you will need to inject the $ionicConfigProvider to the .config module and add $ionicConfigProvider.tabs.position(‘bottom’)

.config(function($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider,$ionicConfigProvider) {

 $ionicConfigProvider.tabs.position('bottom'); //top

  // 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'
  })
.
.
.
  // if none of the above states are matched, use this as the fallback
  $urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/tab/dash');

});

Answer 2

Update for Ionic 2 (cleaner/improved syntax):

In app.js:

@App({
  ...
  config: {
    tabbarPlacement: 'bottom',
  }
})

See Configs