I've had to customize a plugin to my needing, but I intend to publish the fork publicly once I'm done with my customizations and then I can add a pull request for Ionic Native. Thanks for the suggestion!
I did find this great article on how to update your code in the platforms/android/platform_www/plugins/ directory and then copy it out to your actual plugin repository once you're have what you want, just to speed up development. That was a huge time saver. Can't seem to find it right now, but that was the gist of it.