Android pushNotificationReceived event not firing when app is in foreground

Question

I'm using the push plugin with ngCordova, and I'm not getting any pushNotificationReceived events firing when the Android app is in the foreground. The event fires when I do a device registration and it also seems to work for iOS - it's only on Android when the app is in foreground.

When the app is in the background, I get the standard push notification banners with no problem, but clicking through the banner doesn't trigger the pushNotificationReceived either.

angular.module('my.controllers', [])

  .controller('AppCtrl',function ($scope, $ionicModal, $state, $q, UserService, $cordovaPush) {
    $scope.$on('pushNotificationReceived', function (event, notification) {

      //this never gets called on Android if the message 
      //comes in the background through a notification 
      //this does however get triggered by the push registration event.
      alert('notification '+ JSON.stringify(notification));
    }
});