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A Back Button can be placed into a region as a link. The button allows users a quick way to get back to the previous page of our app. Back buttons can be added as a using the app/settings.js file. Typically we don't want the Back Button to show up on the home page, so we can exclude it from the front page using visibility rules.

Back Button

For more information, check out Adding Menu Links to Regions.

app/settings.js

drupalgap.settings.menus.regions['header'] = {
  links:[
    {
      title:'Back',
      options:{
        attributes:{
          'data-icon':'back',
          'class':'ui-btn-right',
          'onclick':'javascript:drupalgap_back();'
        }
      },
      pages:{
        value:[''],
        mode:'exclude'
      }
    }
  ]
};

Developers, also look at hook_drupalgap_back().