What Google Is Hiding About The Flutter Theme Mess

t would be nice if when we see a new iteration of Material Design in Flutter that we actually get that Material Design iteration fully in Flutter. Yeah, it would be nice, but then we hit the reality of Google having finite resources to put towards 3 different front-end frameworks. But, here you and I as app designers are stuck in that if we follow the Flutter Docs advice we do not get full latest Material Design iteration look of our flutter awesome app. Thus, how do we with code get the design tools to get full Material Design, what is it, oh yeah Material Design 3(aka, Material You).

Now, I want to explain how we got here. When Flutter first started, the Flutter SDK team came up with Material Themes and Material Widgets. Then they targeted the iOS platform and came up with Cupertino Widgets and two modes of theme-ing Cupertino widgets; one is no themes at all and Apple Flat UI default colors and one is Material Theme-ing applied to Cupertino Widgets.

The other reality-intruding aspect is that the Flutter SDK team created a concept of ThemeData but goofed up and kept the definition of that loose and thus polluted that class with 21 grab-bag color items among other…