Material Design 3 FAB Speed Dial Not In The Flutter 4 SDK

Fred Grott
4 min readApr 22, 2023

The Material Design 3 spec calls for a FAB dial, which is a fancy expandable fab. But it cannot be found in the Flutter 4.0 SDK. There is a flutter community package called flutter expandable fab that has those features.

But, there is another reason for covering the holes in the Material Design 3 spec and the SDK implementation. We can learn how to do custom UX from the best in the Flutter Community! Ah, did that get your attention? Okay, onward to the flutter expandable fab and how it does its magic.

What Are We Building

I am using the Flutter Expandable FAB package:

And an example looks like this

How Does Flutter Expanded FAB Work?

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Fred Grott
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