Issue keeping preserved state about ui-router-extras

[christopherthielen]

Have a look at the docs for Sticky State:

DOM and $scope of a Sticky State (and all activated substates) is retained until the parent state of the sticky state is exited.

In your pen, the important states are home.list and detail where home.list is sticky. When you transition from home.list to detail, it is exiting both home.list AND home. Since home (the parent state of the sticky state) gets exited, home.list is not retained.

I'm not sure if sticky states and DSR can be used on an abstract state. I suggest restructuring your state tree so the parent to the sticky state doesn't get exited when transitioning to the detail state.

Why not put detail below the list state: home.list.detail ? I suspect you don't need sticky states at all, although I don't know much about how ionic works. Alternatively, try marking home as sticky, or create a non-abstract DSR/sticky state as a parent to home.