I am currently using ui-select (https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-select) for dropdowns. I have included select.js and select.css in my index.html file. I have also installed angular-sanitize through bower.
This is what my controller looks like :
use strict';
angular.module('myApp.home', [  'ui.select',     'ngSanitize']).controller('ScheduleCtrl', ScheduleCtrl);
ScheduleCtrl['$inject'] = [ '$stateParams', '$state' ];
function ScheduleCtrl($stateParams, $state) {
    var vm=this;
    vm.itemArray = [
                    {id: 1, name: 'first'},
                    {id: 2, name: 'second'},
                    {id: 3, name: 'third'},
                    {id: 4, name: 'fourth'},
                    {id: 5, name: 'fifth'},
                ];
    vm.scheduleEvents = [{
        id:1,
        name:'Event1'
    },
    {
        id:2,
        name:'Event2'
    }];
}
And my view contains :
<ui-select ng-model="selectedItem">
    <ui-select-match>
        <span ng-bind="$select.selected.name"></span>
    </ui-select-match>
    <ui-select-choices repeat="item in (vm.itemArray | filter: $select.search) track by item.id">
        <span ng-bind="item.name"></span>
    </ui-select-choices>
</ui-select>
However, my view is blank and it does not seem to be hitting the ui-select directive.


{{item.name}}instead of<span ng-bind="item.name"></span>inside ui-select-choices tag?