In my Ionic 1.3.1 app I am using the `ion-slides` component to display sections of a questionnaire:

```
<ion-slides options="vm.options" slider="data.slider">
        <ion-slide-page ng-repeat="s in ::vm.sections">
            <div class="bar bar-header bar-positive">
                <button class="button button-small button-icon icon ion-chevron-left"
                        ng-click="vm.previous()"
                        ng-show="::$index !== 0"></button>
                <h1 class="title">{{::s.text}}</h1>
                <button class="button button-small button-icon icon ion-chevron-right"
                        ng-click="vm.next()"
                        ng-show="::($index + 1) < vm.sections.length"></button>
            </div>
            <ion-content class="has-header">
               <div ng-if="s.include" ng-show="s.show">
                  <!--My content-->
               </div>
            </ion-content>
        </ion-slide-page>
    </ion-slides>

```

In my controller I listen for the slideChangeStart:

```
    $scope.$on("$ionicSlides.slideChangeStart", function (event, data) {
        alert('slideChangeStart');
        vm.activeIndex = slider.activeIndex;
        vm.propertySurvey.CurrentSectionIndex = vm.activeIndex;

        //include is used on an ng-if so elements are removed from the dom
        //and the number of watchers is reduced
        //also, the slider displays the contents of the 
        //previous slide unless they are explicitly hidden
        vm.sections[slider.previousIndex].include = false;
        vm.sections[slider.previousIndex].show = false;

        initialiseQuestions(vm.activeIndex);
    });

```

When I click on my previous and next buttons, which call `slider.slidePrev()` or `slider.slideNext()`, the `slideChangeStart` event fires - and I see the alert. But if I slide the page using a gesture - the header changes as I expect but the event does not fire. I've tried switching the swipe off in my options without success (not my preferred solution anyway):

```
vm.options = {
   noSwiping: true,
   effect: 'fade'
}

```

**UPDATE**
I tried using `slideChangeEnd` but that event isn't firing either.
So I moved all my code into a single `gotoSlide(index)` method that I call from my `next`, `previous` and `pagerClick` methods - so that I don't rely on the ion-slides event. 
And I added Ionic on-swipe directives to my ion-slide-page component to see if they would work:

```
<ion-slide-page ng-repeat="s in ::vm.sections" 
                on-swipe-left="vm.next()" 
                on-swipe-right="vm.previous()">

```

That made the swipe work in the Ripple emulator (where it wasn't working at all before), but it still doesn't work on any of my android devices. Again, the swipe events don't seem to fire.

I am using the Crosswalk plugin