The Road To Material Design 3 Flutter Implementaton Production Ready

Okay, so I let you in on the well known secret; material design 3 as close to perfection as possible will be production ready in Flutter 4.0. This article is a list of issues still outstanding and possible workarounds.

Credits

Obviously, the research is not all mine. Credit goes to the author of Flex Color Scheme and Flex Seed Scheme, RydMike(his GitHub nickname). And the full list is at:

FlexColorScheme

So let’s get on to the remaining Material Design 3 Implementation issues in Flutter 3.7.

Flutter 3.7 MD3 Implementation Imperfections

BottomAppBar background color cannot be changed in MD3. When the useMaterial3 flag is enabled, cannot change the background color via theme-ing. There is a PR fix, 117082, in the master channel but this has not been cherry-picked for a hot fix yet.

PR117082

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pull/117082