Flutter 3.4 Material Design 3 Google Xmas Gift

Flutter 3.4 will be released just before Xmas with some special Google gifts such as filled tonal buttons and the ability to finally be able to turn on useMaterial3 flag with confidence that you will not have to massively code workarounds. Let me detail all the material design 3 stuff that is now enabled in flutter 3.4.

Extended Intro: Now, let me explain the real-world time-line of when a material design version finally appears fully in flutter. Due to Google have finite developer resources and having to develop 4 front-end frameworks, material design versions always appear approximately one year after they appear in the Android Native SDK.

In this Material Design 3 case, Material Design 3 (Material You) appeared in Android 13 which appeared in the fall of 2021. Keep in mind that if you want any version of Material Design before it fully gets into Flutter that the best way to fill the gaps in material design themes so that you have less workaround code to write is the flex color scheme package: