Upcoming In Flutter From Google IO 2022, Material Symbols

Google IO 2022 is set to be held in middle of May 2022, so let’s get started with something brand new for Flutter application development, Material Symbols.

What Are Material Symbols And Why Should You Care

What are Material Symbols, and why should you care? Material Symbols is a brand-new version of Material Icons in variable font format. This is a sample of the new icons:

It’s not so much as doubling the amount of icons as the support of the underlying variable fonts is the new thing that brings some extra power to Flutter.

What Are Variables Fonts

What are variable fonts? Basically it’s combining several previous font technologies such as Apple GX into open type as OTVF. The font is a continuous range of design variants in web as SVG making the font somewhat smaller. Imagine all the human language font support being reduced from 1 GB to 100 MB.

Oh, but there is more! Because of all the design variations supported, one will be able to customize states of buttons and text.