angular timer directive not working with ionic framework

Question

I am having issues with implementing the angular timer directive with the ionic framework. http://siddii.github.io/angular-timer/

When I implement the code using bow

Answer 1

I decided to not user the angular-timer directive as I was having issues with it reseting when ever I would change tabs as you can see from this example here.

Instead I based my timer of this fiddle.

You can see my final result in this pen. Which loads a timer in ionic, and maintains counting even whilst changing tabs. Going forward, would probably want to add some more changes to it such as can only click stop when the timer has started etc.