leob, That is great to hear that it works right out of the box.
Do you have a version of the complete 1.1 tabs seed that has a working side menu incorporated? Not a code sample but a complete seed folder with all the dot files, configs, etc?
My app using older ionic doesn't work anymore and I am struggling with 1.1 seeds.
The side menu seed doesn't follow the docs structure anymore, it has the <side menu> code removed from the index.html so that it no longer wraps <ion-nav-view> </ion-nav-view> in index.html but is in a menu.html file which shows up in the app.js file as part of the $stateProvider.
I can't quite get my version of tabs seed with added side menu to work, and it sounds like you have a version that does. Could you post it some where?
Thank you!