Releases: rydmike/flex_color_scheme
Version 5.0.0
v5.0.0 - April 21, 2022
The full journey from version 4.2.0 to stable 5.0.0 includes the steps in change logs for development versions 5.0.0-dev.3, -dev.2 and -dev.1.
Please refer to them for all details. This changelog contains a summary of breaking and other critical changes from version 4.2.0.
Overview
FlexColorScheme version 5 is style wise a big breaking change since all the built-in produced ColorScheme
s the themes use have been revised to follow the new Flutter 2.10.0 Material 3 based ColorScheme
. The color changes to the built-in schemes have been kept minimal compared to previous styles.
Mostly new color values were added to provide support for all the new colors in the Flutter Material 3 ColorScheme
update, that landed in Flutter 2.10.0. The new colors are style aligned with past styles as far possible, while also keeping them inline with the Material 3 ColorScheme design intent.
As ColorScheme.primaryVariant
and secondaryVariant
have been deprecated in Flutter 2.10 SDK, so have they in FlexColorScheme. All past color constants for all color values and helper classes with the name "variant" in them, have been self deprecated in FlexColorScheme. The variant color values still exists, if you have used any of them directly, they still work. The old built-in variant color values will remain available at least until version 6.0, maybe even 7.0 if so requested by users.
Breaking
-
Requires at least Flutter 2.10.0.
- Version 5.0.0 requires at least Flutter version 2.10.0 to work. This breaking change is required since the new color properties in
ColorScheme
do not exist in any stable version of Flutter before version 2.10.
- Version 5.0.0 requires at least Flutter version 2.10.0 to work. This breaking change is required since the new color properties in
-
surfaceStyle
removed.- In version 5.0.0, the in version 4.2.0 deprecated property
surfaceStyle
, including all its implementing classes, enums, helpers and tests have been removed. - Removed property:
surfaceStyle
inFlexColorScheme.light
andFlexSchemeData.light
. - Removed property:
surfaceStyle
inFlexColorScheme.dark
andFlexSchemeData.dark
. - Removed: enum
FlexSurface
, that onlysurfaceStyle
was using. - Removed: factory
FlexSchemeSurfaceColors.from
that was used to create surface using thesurfaceStyle
. The factoryFlexSchemeSurfaceColors.blend
replaced it in version 4.0.0 already, when usingsurfaceMode
andblendLevel
. - Migration: Use
surfaceMode
andblendLevel
instead, it has more blend styles and finer granularity than the removedsurfaceStyle
.
- In version 5.0.0, the in version 4.2.0 deprecated property
theme: FlexThemeData.light(
scheme: FlexScheme.flutterDash,
surfaceMode: FlexSurfaceMode.highScaffoldLowSurface,
blendLevel: 20,
),
-
FlexSubThemesData.navigationBarIsStyled
removed.- The property
navigationBarIsStyled
inFlexSubThemesData
has been removed. If you have used it, it has a broader more general replacement calledFlexSubThemesData.useFlutterDefaults
. - Migration: Consider using
useFlutterDefaults
instead, or set styles manually using individual properties to desired styles matching Flutter defaults un-themed component designs.
- The property
-
FlexColorScheme.useSubThemes
no function- Deprecated property
useSubThemes
. This property has no function after 4.2.0 stable and 5.0.0-dev.1. Previously setting this property to true activated the default set and configuration of the optional opinionated component sub-themes, even if you did not pass anyFlexSubThemesData()
configuration data tosubThemesData
. Before whenuseSubThemes
was true and nosubThemesData
defined, it created one internally using the default constructorFlexSubThemesData()
and used it. It also ignored any defined and tosubThemesData
assigned one, if the flag was set to false. - The default component sub-themes are now instead always activated and created by explicitly assigning at least a default constructor
FlexSubThemesData()
toFlexColorScheme.subThemesData
. - Removing this property makes the API more consistent. It follows the same design that is used for
keyColors
withFlexKeyColors
andtones
withFlexTones
. - Migration: If you previously had only set
FlexColorScheme.useSubThemes
to true and not specified anysubThemesData
properties, you must now add the default constructor. Likewise, if you had setFlexColorScheme.useSubThemes
to false, and had aFlexColorScheme.subThemesData
defined, you must remove it disable using it. If you need to toggle it ON and OFF, use a bool to enabled/disable it, then pass in theFlexSubThemesData
when enabled, and null when not using it.
- Deprecated property
Breaking and deprecated due to Flutter SDK change in 2.10.0 stable release.
primaryVariant
andsecondaryVariant
- The colors
primaryVariant
andsecondaryVariant
in FlexColorScheme are deprecated and can no longer be used to set colors values that result in any color values in Flutter SDK deprecated same namedColorScheme
color properties. - The
ColorScheme
deprecated propertiesprimaryVariant
andsecondaryVariant
will always get their Flutter SDK default values,
regardless of what input you give to them in FlexColorScheme. Flutter sets its deprecatedprimaryVariant
equal toprimary
andsecondaryVariant
equal tosecondary
. - This means that if your application used those color scheme values on any custom widgets, their colors will change if you upgrade from a previous version of FlexColorScheme and don't do any other changes. You need to migrate to use
primaryContainer
,secondaryContainer
,tertiary
ortertiaryContainer
color, as replacement colors in your custom widgets. The right choice depends on your color design. - If you use a
FlexColorScheme
setup made for a version before version 5.0, with version 5.0, and, if you have used custom color schemes where you defined theFlexColorScheme
propertiesprimaryVariant
andsecondaryVariant
or defined and used them via customFlexSchemeColors
, in thecolors
property inFlexColorScheme
. Then, in those cases the variant color properties will function as fallback input for color propertiesprimaryContainer
andsecondaryContainer
respectively, unless own color values for these properties are provided. - When you upgrade package version to 5.0.0 and have used custom color schemes, you will find your custom variant colors on the corresponding new container colors. Be aware that past variant color shades are not necessarily a great fit for a Material 3 design intent of container colors, but at least you will get your past custom colors used in the new theme by default.
- Migration: Define new custom colors values for all container colors and tertiary color. Use them to make your custom
FlexColorScheme
instead. Then migrate away from using Flutter SDKColorScheme
colorsprimaryVariant
andsecondaryVariant
anywhere in your application. Instead, use any of its newColorScheme
color properties as fitting with your design. This is something you have to do after Flutter 2.10, even if you are not using FlexColorScheme. Sure, not immediately, but eventually when the Flutter SDKColorScheme
colorsprimaryVariant
andsecondaryVariant
are removed after a year or so.
- The colors
Change and breaking past style.
-
The custom "internal" and temporary
m3TextTheme
was changed. It is style breaking with 4.2.0 and 5.0.0-dev.1 & 2. It breaks past used style when opting in on component themes and its optional customm3TextTheme
enabled. The updated custom implementation of it now follows the implementation used in Flutter master channel, apart from this issue, where it for now implements the value used in the M3 Web guide. The changes in styles otherwise concern the addition of the font geometry height, which the previous custom implementation did not have. The usage of the customm3TextTheme
should be considered internal and temporary. It will be changed to use the actual Flutter implementation once PR #97829 lands in Flutter stable channel. The customm3TextTheme
will then be deprecated. -
The computed colors for
ThemeData
colorsprimaryColorLight
,primaryColorDark
andsecondaryHeaderColor
were changed.
It is style breaking with 4.2.0 and 5.0.0-dev.1 & 2. The change breaks past used styles on these rarely used colors. TheseThemeData
colors are also on a deprecation path and will likely receive some new noneMaterialColor
dependent color defaults when that change happens. The newColorScheme.primary
computed colors for these rarely used colors are better balanced than before, and work well regardless of usedColorScheme.primary
shade and tint. -
The color definition value for
FlexColor.espressoLightPrimary
color was changed. This is style breaking with 4.2.0 and 5.0.0-dev.1 & 2. The new color forFlexColor.espressoLightPrimary
breaks past used color for this color constant. The color was changed from0xFF220804
to0xFF452F2B
. Past color was too dark brown, almost black to be very usable in a UI. It was very black coffee like, but not very practical in a UI, it was too close to black. Since version 5 is anyway a major style breaking with the introduction of the new Material 3 ColorScheme, the opportunity to improve this color value used in the built-in themeespresso
theme was used.
Beware
SchemeColor
values and order, potentially breaking. The enumSchemeColor
has new values and past values are in a new order. The order was changed to accommodate all the new color values, and to keep them in the same order as their corresponding color properties in Flutter Material 3ColorScheme
color values. The change of order is potentially breaking, but highly unlikely to break anything in major ways in normal usage.
Version 5.0.0-dev.3
v5.0.0-dev.3 - April 20, 2022
Test release to verify builds and minor changes before stable release.
Documentation update
-
The package documentation has now moved too its own site at docs.flexcolorscheme.com.
-
It is a major update and rewrite of previous documentation. It also contains general Flutter theming guidance. One chapter is still work in progress. When it is completed, the stable v5.0.0 will be released.
Change: Custom "internal" and temporary m3TextTheme
revised.
- Style breaking with 4.2.0 and 5.0.0-dev.1 & 2
- Breaks past used style when opting in on component themes and its optional custom
m3TextTheme
enabled. The updated custom implementation of it now follows the implementation used in Flutter master channel, apart from this issue, where it for now implements the value used in the M3 Web guide. - The changes in styles otherwise concern the addition of the font geometry, height, which the previous custom implementation did not have. The usage of the custom
m3TextTheme
should be considered internal and temporary, it will be changed to use the actual Flutter implementation once PR #97829 lands in Flutter stable channel. The customm3TextTheme
will then be deprecated.
Change: Computed colors for ThemeData
colors primaryColorLight
, primaryColorDark
and secondaryHeaderColor
were changed.
-
Style breaking with 4.2.0 and 5.0.0-dev.1 & 2, breaks past used styles on the rarely used colors
primaryColorLight
,primaryColorDark
andsecondaryHeaderColor
. -
These
ThemeData
colors are on a deprecation path and will likely receive some new noneMaterialColor
dependent color defaults when that change happens. The newColorScheme.primary
computed colors for these rarely used colors are better balanced than before, and work well regardless of usedColorScheme.primary
shade and tint.
Change: Color definition for FlexColor.espressoLightPrimary
color was changed.
-
Style breaking with 4.2.0 and 5.0.0-dev.1 & 2: New color for
FlexColor.espressoLightPrimary
breaks past used color for this color constant. -
The color was changed from
0xFF220804
to0xFF452F2B
. Past color was too dark brown, almost black to be very usable in a UI. It was very black coffee like, but not very practical in a UI, it was too close to black. Since version 5 is anyway a major style breaking with the introduction of the new Material 3 ColorScheme, the opportunity to improve this color value used in the built-in themeespresso
theme was used.
Examples
- Examples contain minor improvements and fixes.
Version 5.0.0-dev.2
v5.0.0-dev.2 - April 4, 2022
BREAKING
-
Completed in version 4.0.0 planned, for version 5.0.0, removal of
deprecated propertysurfaceStyle
, including all its implementing classes,
enums and helpers:- Removed property:
surfaceStyle
inFlexColorScheme.light
. - Removed property:
surfaceStyle
inFlexColorScheme.dark
. - Removed: enum
FlexSurface
, thatsurfaceStyle
where. - Removed: factory
FlexSchemeSurfaceColors.from
that was used to create
surface using theFlexSurface
. The factoryFlexSchemeSurfaceColors.blend
replaced in version 4.0.0 already when usingsurfaceMode
andblendLevel
. - Removed tests and modified tests needing to consider above removals.
- Removed property:
-
Deprecated property
useSubThemes
. This property has no function after
4.2.0 stable and 5.0.0-dev.1. FlexColorScheme opinionated component sub-themes
are now created by adding a default constructorFlexSubThemesData()
or one with
some custom property values set, tosubThemesData
. This creates sub-themes
using the FlexColorScheme opinionated sub-themes. Removing this property makes the
API more consistent. It now follows the same design that is used forkeyColors
withFlexKeyColors
andtones
withFlexTones
.
Setting the propertyuseSubThemes
will not cause an error, it just has no effect.
You can safely remove it. The propertyuseSubThemes
will be removed in release 6.0.0. -
The property
navigationBarIsStyled
inFlexSubThemesData
was removed in
v5.0.0-dev.1 as no longer needed. It is now kind of back with a new broader
replacement calledFlexSubThemesData.useFlutterDefaults
.
The in dev.1 version tested API-style to
set variousSchemeColor
properties to null, to get SDK default for them was not
nice. TheFlexSubThemesData
should default to its own preferred
and recommended harmonized defaults when not defined. It is better to offer a
toggle that can be set, to when possible/offer an opt-out from some bigger style
differences from SDK defaults. This can be useful if one wants to create
custom component themes and wish to start from less opinionated ones.
The newuseFlutterDefaults
is false by default, and the sub-themes undefined
null values result in its own harmonized and recommended settings. By setting
it totrue
a bit messier and un-harmonized Flutter default are back. Currently,
this impacts different styles and colors onBottomNavigationBar
,NavigationBar
,
andNavigationRail
. See API docs for details regarding
defaults with this flag on and off. -
The
FlexSubThemesData
propertypopupMenuRadius
and the radius in
corresponding static sub-theme helperFlexSubThemes.popupMenuTheme
,
now defaults to 4.
In versions before v5.0.0-dev.2 it defaulted to 10. The M3 spec for it
was not available when it was chosen originally. It was assumed to have
higher border radius like rest of designs. However, the spec has it
defined here now, and it
is 4. Since border radius default values are stated in FlexColorScheme
sub-theme design goals to follow the M3 design specs, it was updated to
match the spec. A bit higher rounding, may actually fit better with
the very round M3 design, try 8 or 10. It is very simple to change bach with
the API.
FIX
-
Pub.dev analysis does not like document references to deprecated Flutter
properties. Changed the primaryVariant and secondaryVariant references
in document comments toprimaryVariant
andsecondaryVariant
. Nor does it
like when you use tests to deprecated Flutter SDK members, removed them too,
they were not needed either after some redesign of a few tests. -
Fixed. When using sub-themes and selecting a
ColorScheme
based color, as
color for theAppBar
, instead of usingabbBarStyle
in light and dark
factories, theappBarOpacity
was not applied to the selected color. The
priority of effectiveAppBar
color was also revised to follow the norm,
which from lowest to highest is:abbBarStyle
in light/dark factories and ThemeData extensions, which
selects the used color from activescheme
orcolors
, in the same
factories or extensions.appBarBackgroundSchemeColor
inFlexSubThemesData
when used.appBarBackground
in FlexColorScheme.
CHANGE
-
Changed the priority in FlexColorScheme when using direct input color
properties,colorScheme
input and using key color seeded ColorScheme
generation. The new order is that inputcolorScheme
is in this rare use case
always overridden by the seed generateColorScheme
. This allows us
to use acolorScheme
as input to seed generation, where this color
scheme could already have been externally seeded generated, but that we want
to modify by using custom FlexTones or surface blends in FleColorScheme.
The direct properties overrides the seeded color scheme as before, unless it
isprimary
,secondary
,tertiary
or their container colors. In that case
thekeyColors
, "keep" property determines if those colors are kept or not. -
The
FlexSubThemesData
propertyinputDecorationRadius
was deprecated and
renamed toinputDecoratorRadius
, to harmonize the other
InputDecoration
property names inFlexSubThemesData
.
The old name will be removed in release 6.0.0. -
Deprecated and renamed
navigationBarHighlightSchemeColor
to
navigationBarIndicatorSchemeColor
inFlexSubThemesData
, to
harmonize the naming standard. Likewise, the parameterhighlightSchemeColor
ìnFlexSubThemes.navigationBarTheme
was deprecated and replaced by
indicatorSchemeColor
. The old names will be removed in release 6.0.0. -
In 5.0.0-dev.1, the renamed properties were deprecated and broken with 4.2.0.
They are still deprecated, but now fallback via the old properties. They
are no longer breaking. This concernsFlexSubThemesData
properties:bottomNavigationBarSchemeColor
->bottomNavigationBarSelectedLabelSchemeColor
navigationBarTextSchemeColor
->navigationBarSelectedLabelSchemeColor
navigationBarMutedUnselectedText
->navigationBarMutedUnselectedLabel
navigationBarIconSchemeColor
->navigationBarSelectedIconSchemeColor
And
FlexSubThemes.navigationBarTheme
properties:textSchemeColor
->selectedLabelSchemeColor
unselectedTextSchemeColor
->unselectedLabelSchemeColor
iconSchemeColor
->selectedIconSchemeColor
mutedUnselectedText
->mutedUnselectedLabel
And
FlexSubThemes.bottomNavigationBarTheme
properties:baseSchemeColor
->selectedLabelSchemeColor
The old property names will be removed in release 6.0.0.
NEW
-
Added
SchemeColor
based theming ofSnackBar
background color via
snackBarBackgroundSchemeColor
inFlexSubThemesData
and support for it
inFlexSubThemes
. -
Changed the color values for
FlexColor.materialLightSecondaryContainer
and
FlexColor.materialLightSecondaryContainerHc
. These color properties
do not have any specification in Material 2 spec. Updated the colors values
that had been made up for dev.1 release to better match the design intent
of those colors for the new Material 3ColorScheme
. -
Added
inputDecoratorUnfocusedBorderIsColored
toFlexSubThemesData
and
support for it inFlexSubThemes
viaunfocusedBorderIsColored
. Previously
an unfocused or hovered border/underline always had a hint of selected
base color. Setting this to false, leaves it at the grey defaults used by
Flutter defaults. -
Added
navigationBarIndicatorOpacity
andnavigationRailIndicatorOpacity
toFlexSubThemesData
, to expose their already existing properties in
corresponding sub-themes used byFlexColorScheme
.
DEMO APPS
- Themes Playground improvements:
- Added a new single panel "Page" view. The previous large masonry grid view
is still available. Both views can be used and switch to based on what
is appropriate when using different media sizes. - The switches to keep main input colors for primary, secondary, tertiary
and their containers, where separated so that their state and code
generation for light and dark theme mode are separate. This makes them
more useful for actual theme setup. Earlier you had to separate them by
editing the generated code. - Added display of SnackBar style to the Themed Material panel.
- Added display of more ListTile types.
- Added ColorScheme based color selection theming of SnackBar background color.
- Added CodeView as a panel of its own. It is now possible to view the
changes to generated code as settings are changed. In the
advanced view where one can keep it open and close other panels, except one
being operated in. In page view it is shown as last page, however if
the media is large enough, it is shown side-by-side with controls on current
page. This is a really handy view for studying what each control does in
the generated code. - Added missing code gen for button border radius.
- Fixed broken code gen for dark mode blend level.
- Decoupled all bundled theming controls in the app.
- Added individual override controls for border radius to all components.
- Added option to swap or not swap computed dark mode main and container color.
- Added indicator opacity controls to NavigationBar and NavigationRail.
- Reduced amount of pre-set defaults in the app, so it starts with simpler setup code.
- Changed the code gen style for dark mode when using from light mode computed dark theme.
- Changed the code gen, so it does not add any code when using API default values.
- Changed the ThemeService to use generic types.
- Added a new single panel "Page" view. The previous large masonry grid view
TESTS
- Finalized test updates. Now 1684 te...
Version 5.0.0-dev.1
v5.0.0-dev.1 - March 14, 2022
Version 5 is a big refactor with deprecation of previous variant
based
color names in favor of container
ones that were added to updated M3
based ColorScheme
in Flutter 2.10.0. The same additions and changes are now
also introduced in FlexColorScheme. Despite being a very big release, with
many new features, actual breaking changes are very few and mostly concerns
in version 4 deprecated members and of course requiring minimum Flutter
2.10.0 to work.
The WIP updates now includes the version of the key color seeded M3 ColorScheme
usage intended for the final design. The feature supports seeding by not only
using a single primary
key color, but also using separate key colors for
secondary
and tertiary
colors. The Flutter SDK ColorScheme.fromSeed
only
support using a single color as seed. The primary
, secondary
and tertiary
color are used as key color seeds, when seeding is used, and by default all
three color are used as key for their respective tonal palette used by
the generated ColorScheme
. Using secondary
and teritary
colors can each
optionally be turned OFF. If both are, the result is same as when using
ColorScheme.fromSeed
, with the primary
color as seed key color.
When using a key seed color generated ColorScheme
, it may sometimes, e.g. for
branding purposes, be useful to lock a certain color in the resulting
ColorScheme
to the actual key color value used for primary
, secondary
and tertiary
. FlexColorScheme
includes scheme appropriate colors for
each of these color properties, as well
their containers. You can for each property define which ones you want to keep
as defined by these input colors, in the seed generated ColorScheme
. You
can of course use this feature with custom input colors as well.
The bundled example 5, the Themes Playground is now fully up to date with all
the new features. Its updated code generation still
needs results verification.
There are also now in Flutter master channel more actual
M3 impacts and ThemeData color property deprecations commits landed in Flutter
master channel that I reviewed and prepared for in advance when possible.
Much work on tests, and readme documentation updates remain, but API docs are
up-to-date. And this book long change log should help. There are only a few
breaking changes, and most of them are rarely used properties, so migration
should be relatively easy, despite the long list of changes and new features.
BREAKING
-
Requires at least Flutter stable 2.10.0.This release uses new M3
ColorScheme
properties that are not included before Flutter version 2.10.0, as well
as theThemeData
flaguseMaterial3
. -
Removed parameter
surfaceStyle
fromFlexThemeData
extensionsFlexThemeData.light
andFlexThemeData.dark
that uses
in version 4.2.0 already deprecated propertysurfaceStyle
inFlexColorScheme
class. The same deprecated propertysurfaceStyle
inFlexColorScheme
class
is still available in 5.0.0-dev.1. In the stable release 5.0.0 it might
be removed as well. They were all scheduled for deprecation in version 5.0.0,
but keeping it around a bit longer in the main class in 5.0.0-dev releases
to prolong backwards API compatibility during development. Maybe I will keep
it in the release too, many tests need to be rewritten when they are removed. -
The enum
SchemeColor
has new values and past values are in a
new order. The order was changed to accommodate new color values and to
keep them in the same order as their corresponding color properties
in M3ColorScheme
. The change of order is potentially breaking, but unlikely
to break anything in major ways, other than possibly local storage of selected
enum values. In the bundled samples you might for example see wrong color
selections loaded from local storage, just reset or select correct value
to fix it. -
To get more harmonized setup on opt-in sub themes for
NavigationBar
,
BottomNavigationBar
andNaivgationRail
a few properties in
FlexSubThemesData
andFlexSubThemes
had to be modified and broken.
Impact is estimated to be low for most users.The following properties were renamed in
FlexSubThemesData
:navigationBarTextSchemeColor
->navigationBarSelectedLabelSchemeColor
navigationBarMutedUnselectedText
->navigationBarMutedUnselectedLabel
navigationBarIconSchemeColor
->navigationBarSelectedIconSchemeColor
bottomNavigationBarSchemeColor
->bottomNavigationBarSelectedLabelSchemeColor
In
FlexThemeData
the propertynavigationBarIsStyled
was removed. It is
no longer needed. The same end result it enabled can be achieved by
by setting all NavigationBar related properties inFlexSubThemesData
that
have a none null default value to null.The following parameters were renamed in
FlexSubThemes.navigationBarTheme
:textSchemeColor
->selectedLabelSchemeColor
unselectedTextSchemeColor
->unselectedLabelSchemeColor
iconSchemeColor
->selectedIconSchemeColor
mutedUnselectedText
->mutedUnselectedLabel
The following parameter wa renamed in
FlexSubThemes.bottomNavigationBarTheme
:baseSchemeColor
->selectedLabelSchemeColor
NEW
-
Added
useMaterial3
to all theme constructors and factories. This is
the same flag as inThemeData
, it does not have any major impact on
default themed widgets in Flutter 2.10.x. Opting in on opinionated
sub-themes, will however as before give opinionated component sub-themes that
result in Material 3 like styles. Similar look will become default widget
design in later Flutter SDK versions when using the flaguseMaterial3
is
set to true. -
Added new properties
onPrimaryContainer
,onSecondaryContainer
,
tertiary
,tertiaryContainer
,onTertiary
andonTertiaryContainer
to
the un-namedFlexColorScheme
constructor and factories
FlexColorScheme.light
andFlexColorScheme.dark
, as well as to extension
FlexThemeData
to extensionsFlexThemeData.light
andFlexThemeData.dark
onThemeData
. -
In
FlexColor
added new color properties for all color values to cover the
new "Container
" color properties in Flutter 2.10 new M3ColorScheme
.
For every built-inFlexColor
, there are now also these new color properties:primaryContainer
secondaryContainer
tertiary
tertiaryContainer
The previous color values maps as follows:
tertiary
= oldsecondaryVariant
color value, that is deprecated
for each color value.- Old
primaryVariant
, is just deprecated for each color value.
The "variant" colors are still available as deprecated properties, and will
remain available until version 6.0.0. The old color properties and their values
still work as inputs, and they produce same equivalentColorScheme
results
as before. This is done by the values still being assigned as fallback value
in custom schemes so that new:primaryContainer
, if not assigned, falls back via oldprimaryVariant
.secondaryContainer
, if not assigned, falls back via oldsecondaryVariant
.
When it comes to the new built-in scheme designs, the color used on past:
secondaryVariant
was a reasonable fit for new M3tertiary
color property
and was used as its value.- The new properties
secondaryContainer
and
tertiaryContainer
, had to get new built-in color values that fit with
the M3 design intent for those color properties. This while considering the
valuesecondary
already had, and the valuetertiary
got by being
assigned the color value of pastsecondaryVariant
. - The new color property
primaryContainer
also needed a new color value. The
pastprimaryVariant
is not the correct design fit for how the color
value is intended to be used in M3 Color design. - In many cases it was possible to make nice color schemes, by reshuffling
some existing color values and using colors from light scheme, in container
properties in dark scheme and vice versa. Sometimes new better tuned
color values were used. In all events allContainer
color properties
are new features in this release, so they are considered "new" even
if their color value might have been recycled from previous properties
in some cases. SomeContainer
color values may still be fine-tuned
before final 5.0.0 release, but it is unlikely.
-
In class
FlexSchemeColor
added new color properties
primaryContainer
andsecondaryContainer
they replace
deprecated propertiesprimaryVariant
andsecondaryVariant
. The old
properties still work and are
used as fallback to the new ones when the new ones are not provided.
The previous properties are still available as deprecated, and will remain
available until version 6.0.0, or until they are removed from the Flutter
stable channel, whichever comes first. The properties for built-in schemes
were assigned to their new correspondingFlexColor
values. -
In class
FlexSchemeColor
added new color definitions fromFlexColor
forFlexSchemeColor.tertiary
andFlexSchemeColor.tertiaryContainer
. -
In class
FlexSchemeColor
theFlexSchemeColor.secondaryContainer
andFlexSchemeColor.tertiaryContainer
should be brighter versions of their
none container parent light mode and darker in dark mode. They receive
such color values via new correspondingFlexColor
values. -
In factory
FlexSchemeColor.from
added optional and nullable parameter
brightness
. If not assigned, the factory works as before, producing a
completeFlexSchemeColor
from just one or more color proper...
Version 4.2.0
v4.2.0 - January 24, 2022
-
New: Updated required Dart SDK to minimum 2.15 that Flutter 2.8.0 uses.
To use this release at least Flutter 2.8.0 is required. -
New: Added support for opinionated sub-theme for the new Material 3 based
NavigationBar
. Flutter version 2.8.0 is the first stable version that
includes the new Material 3 design basedNavigationBar
. -
Deprecated: The property
surfaceStyle
has been deprecated. In
version 4.0.0 it was already recommended to use, the then introduced more
powerful surface branding propertiessurfaceMode
andblendLevel
instead.
ThesurfaceStyle
property is still available and works as before, but you
now get a deprecation warning if it is used. The property and all its related features
will be completely removed in version 5.0. -
New: Custom
FlexColorScheme
based themes can now also be defined by
alternatively passing in aColorScheme
object to thecolorScheme
property in default the constructor, as well as inFlexColorScheme.light
and
FlexColorScheme.dark
factories. When used it overrides thescheme
and
colors
properties in the factories. Same color property in any constructor
that exist as direct property in the constructors, still have the highest
priority and will also override corresponding color properties in passed in
colorScheme
. The capability to make custom FlexColorScheme based themes from
standard Flutter color schemes is useful if you already have a predefined
elaborateColorScheme
definition. You can now use it directly and still
use FlexColorScheme for its surface color branding and easy sub-theming.
This capability will also be very useful when Material 3 basedColorScheme
in Flutter SDK arrives in the stable channel. With Material 3, color schemes
may be created using new Material 3 design based color tools, e.g. from
seed color(s) or using dynamic colors extracted from system wallpaper colors.
With this feature it will then be able to feed those colors directly into
FlexColorScheme, and use them as colors to create yourThemeData
. -
Changed: All properties in all
FlexColorScheme
constructors are now
optional. The change is none breaking, and uses Material 2 based
design guide example theme light and dark as defaults for undefined values. -
New: Added a
ColorScheme
color selection option to selected opinionated
sub-themes configuration classFlexSubThemesData
. The sub-themes that
support changing theirColorScheme
based
used theme color selection, have one or more properties called
nnnSchemeColor
wherennn
describes the color feature that can be set
to an alternativeColorScheme
based color and not just its pre-defined
ColorScheme
based color property.
The color selector is aSchemeColor
enum property value that is used to
select the enum value that corresponds to same named color
property value intheme.colorScheme
. ThisSchemeColor
color quick
selection option has been added to:- Theming
TextField
viaFlexSubThemes.inputDecorationTheme
to select a
base color for the border and fill color. TabBar
sub-theming to select its indicator color, when you want it to be a
different color than the color of theTabBar
icon and text, which are
controlled viaFlexTabBarStyle
in theFlexColorScheme.tabBarStyle
property as before. It gives you an easy option to override the indicator
color with any of the theme'scolorScheme
colors.- To
BottomNavigationBar
viaFlexSubThemes.bottomNavigationBar
to set the
preferred color of the icon and label text in the Material 2 based
BottomNavigationBar
, as well as used container background color. NavigationBar
inFlexSubThemes.navigationBarTheme
to set the
preferredColorScheme
color of the text, icon in the Material 3 based
NavigationBar
, as well as the pill shaped highlight color separately that
surrounds the selected icon and its container background color.ChipThemeData
fromFlexSubThemes.chipTheme
to change the used
ColorScheme
based base color of Chips.
- Theming
-
The
SchemeColor
properties for the above sub-themes have a default selection
that results in sameColorScheme
color values being used as they had
before. The additional configuration options are none breaking. The enum
properties to modify the usedColorScheme
color can be defined in the
configuration classFlexSubThemesData
using its new properties:inputDecoratorSchemeColor
chipSchemeColor
tabBarIndicatorSchemeColor
bottomNavigationBarUsedColor
bottomNavigationBarSchemeColor
bottomNavigationBarBackgroundSchemeColor
navigationBarIconSchemeColor
navigationBarTextSchemeColor
navigationBarHighlightSchemeColor
navigationBarBackgroundSchemeColor
-
Usage examples of the above new configuration possibilities have been added to
the default example, the so-called developers hot reload playground. -
The ColorScheme color selection in
SchemeColor
includes all colors in
ColorScheme
supported by Flutter 2.8. You may want to avoid using the
primaryVariant
andsecondaryVariant
colors if you want to avoid later
migrations. These variant colors are being deprecated in Flutter SDK,
see #93427. -
A later FlexColorScheme version will add support for the new Material 3
colors inColorScheme
when they land in the stable channel. -
This quick selection of
ColorScheme
based colors as none standard themed
colors of widget sub-themes, may be extended to a few more sub-themes in
future versions. At least if it is seen as a practical and quick way to
customize widget sub-theme colors within the constraints of colors in
thetheme.colorScheme
. -
As before you can still apply your own total custom sub-themes to the
ThemeData
created withFlexColorScheme
by usingcopyWith
.
FlexColorScheme is a way to easily make fancy and color wise consistent and
balancedThemeData
objects using convenience shortcut properties and
methods. It does not prevent you from further modifying and tuning the
producedThemeData
with standard Flutter SDK features. -
Removed: The
uses-material-design: true
line from library
pubspec.yaml
file was removed. It is not needed since Material icon
features are not used by this package. -
Example 5 - Themes Playground
- Fixed onColor for a few colors in the ThemeData color presentation boxes
for cases where it might differ from colorScheme onColors. This could happen
when disabling FlexColorScheme. - Fixed index on _AppBarSettings card.
- Changed the feature that animate hides not available options based on selections
to a version that disables them and resets their state while disabled.
Plus a few controls are hidden but take up same space.
Hiding the controls caused the panels to change size, often causing relayout
of the masonry grid layout. This was confusing UX, as entire panels might
move into new places. While the UI hide animations were cool, this keeps
the panels in same place in the grid, which is less confusing to use.
Panels can still be closed and it of course causes relayout of the grid too,
but in that use case it is expected. - Changed ColorScheme indicator boxes to use the themed border radius.
- Added a button to copy theme, and improved the explanations to make the
functionality more obvious and accessible. Previously only the entire
ListTile was the button, this UI with no button was not so clear. Now
there is also a button that says COPY. Clicking on the ListTile still
works as well. - Add and updated app icon resources used by all the example apps.
- Update to new breaking version of StaggeredGridview 0.6.0. It no longer
requires previously used bug work around(s) for a window resize issue that
had existed since 2019. For more info on this solved issue, see this
article. - Added most new features in version 4.2.0 to the Themes Playground app and
its theme code generation.
- Fixed onColor for a few colors in the ThemeData color presentation boxes
-
Example theme - Copy Playground Theme
- Added a new simple template example, that is handy for trying copy-pasted
theme setup code, generated by the Themes Playground example 5.
- Added a new simple template example, that is handy for trying copy-pasted
-
Documentation: Reviewed and corrected many API docs. The API docs are
very thorough and complete. They usually cover any question you might have and
more. Added a brief "API Intro and Guide" chapter to the readme. -
Tests: Added tests to cover the new features, now total 1123 tests.
Version 4.1.1
[4.1.1] - November 20, 2021
- Documentation: Fixed a broken link in the readme that pub.dev analyser found.
- This release was previously not published on GitHub, because it is basically the same release as 4.1.0, but with a readme.md fix needed for pub.dev, since it caused a score reduction on pub.dev.
Version 4.1.0
[4.1.0] - November 20, 2021
-
Fix: The
defaultRadius
inFlexSubThemesData
now defaults to null
so all sub-themes border radius will default to M3 default border
radius per widget. The const default value it had was a remnant from early
dev phase when widgets all defaulted to single shared radius and not M3
defaults per widget type. If you explicitly passed in null, you did also in
previous version get the M3 defaults. Older tests did that, now they expect
same result when no value is assigned, as it should have been. -
Examples: Updated and tuned the examples. Example 5 "Themes Playground"
now includes capability to define custom color schemes starting from built-in ones.
It can also generate the FlexColorScheme setup code needed for any defined
viewed theme setup. You can copy/paste a theme's Flutter Dart code,
from the Themes Playground to your app and use it as its theme. This is a very
quick and convenient way to try a theme you made and see in the Themes
Playground in your own app. -
Opt in opinionated sub themes minor style changes:
- Added missing themed background color for
SnackBarThemeData
when
using opt in opinionated sub themes. - Tuned the colored text theme on the sub themes that is applied when
using the optional colored text themes. The text styles now better match
the regular none colored style,
and they are a bit more subtle. Text stylecaption
got a bit
of opacity. M2 designed widgets likeListTile
, depend on it for
making more muted subtitles by default forListTile
via the heading level
opacity oncaption
text style. The opacity on it is lower though, to
retain a bit more contrast on blended surfaces, while still adhering to
the style intent.Minor details on the opinionated sub themes may still be tuned and
changed slightly as a part of improving them and their appeal. For the
text theme coloring future version may expose parameter(s) that can be
used to adjust the color tint effect on text theme when colored
text theme is enabled.
- Added missing themed background color for
-
Major updates to readme doc, and typo corrections.
-
Tests:
- Modified tests to catch the fixed
defaultRadius
issue. - Added more tests, now total 1069 tests.
- Modified tests to catch the fixed
Version 4.0.0-example.5
[4.0.0-example.5] - November 18, 2021
- Package wise this is the same version as 4.0.0, but the examples were updated in this release. Example 5 got custom scheme feature and capability to get the code for the theme. Also testing the CI/CD build and deploy script with this release.
Version 4.0.0
[4.0.0] - November 13, 2021
-
The new V4 docs are still a bit lacking and will be improved in docs
updates later. -
The breaking case is a minor difference in produced style for true
black mode. Version 4.0.0 is still fully API compatible with version 3.
Version 4.0.0 does however contain so many new
features, that it in itself warrants a new major release bump. -
Breaking: In dark mode, the
darkIsTrueBlack
now makessurface
color
8% darker instead of 6%. This change was needed to support overlay color
in dark mode when usingdarkIsTrueBlack
when using the newsurfaceMode
property. For more information see Flutter SDK
issue 90353. -
Fix/Breaking: From the color scheme English descriptions the sentence
end "." was removed from all description strings. If and when you want one,
you can add it as needed. -
New: Added a more flexible and powerful alpha blending feature for
surface and background colors. The new properties in theFlexColorScheme
factorieslight
anddark
aresurfaceMode
, of type enumFlexSurfaceMode
and integerblendLevel
. Consider using them instead of previous
surfaceStyle
.
The surface color blend stylesurfaceStyle
is still default, and not yet
deprecated, but may be so in later versions. It is not really needed anymore,
but there was no major reason to break things by removing it either. -
New: Major new feature; easy sub-theming of Flutter SDK UI widgets.
- You can opt in on nice looking opinionated widget sub-themes by setting
FlexColorScheme.useSubThemes
to true, it is false by default. - The default settings for the sub-theme is inspired by
Material 3 design (M3) It mimics it to large extent
when using default value sub-theme values and settings. The varying corner
radius is different per widget type. The new TextTheme Typography is also
included. All parts cannot be made to look exactly like M3 in Flutter when using
Material 2 design (M2), but many parts
can, and where possible the defaults try follow those values. You can of
course override the default. - You can tweak these sub themes with a number of parameters
defined in theFlexSubThemesData
class, passed to
FlexColorScheme.subThemesData
. - The
FlexSubThemesData
class provides parameters for easy adjustment
of corner radius in Widgets that useShapeBorder
or decorations, that
support changing the Widget's corner radius. With the sub themes enabled, you
can easily create a theme with a consistent corner radius on built-in
Flutter SDK UI widgets. - The widget sub-themes also harmonize a few other styles, e.g.
ToggleButtons
to match the standard buttons regarding size and design as far as possible. - In case you still use the old deprecated buttons, they also get
ButtonThemeData
that as far as possible match the same style. - Via the sub themes it is by default opted-in to also use a bit Material You
like coloring on the text styles. This can also be opted out of, even if
otherwise opting in on sub-themes, it is on by default when opting in on
sub themes.
- You can opt in on nice looking opinionated widget sub-themes by setting
-
New: Added
FlexThemeData
static extension onThemeData
.- FlexColorScheme Themes can now also be created with the new syntax
FlexThemeData.light
andFlexThemeData.dark
, instead of using
FlexColorScheme.light().toTheme
andFlexColorScheme.dark().toTheme
. - The
toTheme
method is still available and works as before. It will not
be deprecated. It is needed when making elaborate custom sub themes beyond
what is offered when usingFlexColorScheme
based opt-in sub themes. When
you make custom sub themes yourself, you often need access to
theColorScheme
that is defined in currentFlexColorScheme()
instance.
You can get it withFlexColorScheme().toScheme
. Then use this
this standardColorScheme
or any of its colors, in your custom sub theme
definitions, that you then add with copyWith to your FlexColorScheme based
theme, likeFlexColorScheme().toTheme.copyWith(..."your sub themes and other ThemeData over-rides here")
.
- FlexColorScheme Themes can now also be created with the new syntax
-
New: Added
textTheme
andprimaryTextTheme
properties to
FlexColorScheme
to enable easy setup of customTextThemes
, without the
need to add a customTextTheme
via acopyWith
, plusmerge
with the
default text theme. -
New: Added
FlexColorScheme.dialogBackground
as a background surface
color that can be controlled and themed separately. -
New: Added
appBarOpacity
toFlexColorScheme.light()
anddark()
.
With it, you can apply themed opacity to theAppBar
background color to
the selectedFlexAppBarStyle
it is using. -
New: On the
FlexColorScheme
factorieslight
anddark
, exposed
theColor
propertiesprimary
,primaryVariant
,secondary
,
sedondaryVariant
,appBarBackground
,dialogBackground
anderror
.
They all default to null, but if provided they can be used as override values
to factory behaviors defined byscheme
,colors
,appBarStyle
,
surfaceMode
andsurfaceStyle
that
otherwise via the factories define the colors for these properties. If a value
for one of the new direct color properties is used with the factory, it always
has precedence over other properties that assign or compute colors for it. -
New: Exposed boolean property
applyElevationOverlayColor
. It has the same
function as the same property inThemeData
. It applies a semi-transparent
overlay color on Material surfaces to indicate elevation for dark themes.
InFlexColorScheme
it defaults to true. In FlutterThemeData.from
it
also default to true, but inThemeData
it defaults to false.
The property is just available for convenience, so you can avoid acopyWith
if you wish to turn it off. It is not necessarily needed or even desired when
using strong alpha blends on surfaces in dark mode, to use an elevation
overlay color. -
New: All
FlexSchemeData
objects inFlexColor
are exposed as static
const objects, making them easy to pick and reuse as const objects
individually in custom color scheme lists, or as input to thecolors
property. Previously only the individual color value definitions were exposed. -
New: Added convenience extension
.blendAlpha()
onColor
inFlexColorExtensions
. -
New: The
FlexThemeModeSwitch
got a bool propertyhasTitle
, if set
tofalse
it removes the title entirely. -
New: The
FlexThemeModeSwitch
got abuttonOrder
property using enum
FlexThemeModeButtonOrder
that you can use to define the order of its
light, system and dark theme mode buttons, in all possible combinations. -
New: Added edgeToEdge support to
FlexColorScheme.themedSystemNavigationBar
. This brings the previously
experimental support for transparent system navigation bar in Android
into the supported fold in FlexColorScheme. Its functionality
requires min Android SDK level 29, but other than that it works without
Android setup shenanigans. No added APIs, the API for it already existed
in previous version of FlexColorScheme, using it did however require
special Android build configuration setup, this is no longer required. -
Change: The
FlexColor.schemesList
is now aconst
for improved
efficiency. -
New color schemes: Added four new built-in color schemes.
Total number of color schemes is now 36 matched light and dark pairs.- Blue whale - Blue whale, jungle green and outrageous tango orange.
Use enum valueFlexScheme.blueWhale
for easy access to it.
This theme is final and selected for inclusion as a new one. - San Juan blue - San Juan blue and pink salmon theme.
Use enum valueFlexScheme.sanJuanBlue
for easy access to it. - Rosewood - Rosewood red, with horses neck and driftwood theme.
Use enum valueFlexScheme.rosewood
for easy access to it. - Blumine - Blumine, easter blue and saffron mango theme.
Use enum valueFlexScheme.blumineBlue
for easy access to it.
- Blue whale - Blue whale, jungle green and outrageous tango orange.
-
Documentation:
- The new main example is a complete quick start guide that doubles as
"developers" hot reload based playground template. It has comments
explaining what is going on.
If you skip reading the readme docs and tutorial, the example may help
to kick-start using FlexColorScheme and all its features. It shows most
of the features in last tutorial example 5, but without any interactive UI.
You are the UI and can edit prop values and use hot-reload to see changes. - All examples now use the new
FlexThemeData
extension syntax to create the
ThemeData
andsurfaceMode
to define the alpha blended surfaces. - Examples 2 to 5 also use the in Flutter 2.5 new skeleton architecture with
a ChangeNotifier based controller, AnimatedBuilder to listen to it and
an abstract service to get and persist the theme settings, with a concrete
in-memory implementation, plus the implementations to persist the theme.- Examples 2 to 4 use the Hive implementation.
- Example 5 uses the SharedPreferences implementation
- The new main example is a complete quick start guide that doubles as
-
Tests:
- Added tests for the new features, total 1066 tests,
- Coverage 99%, will improve them more later.
Version 4.0.0-dev.1
[4.0.0-dev.1] - November 13, 2021
-
The breaking case refer to a minor difference in produced style for true
black mode. Version 4.0.0 is still fully API compatible with version 3.
Major version was bumped due to the small change in produced output in some
rare usage options. Version 4.0.0 does however contain so many new
features, that it in itself warrants a new major release bump. -
Breaking: In dark mode, the
darkIsTrueBlack
now makessurface
color
8% darker instead of 6%. This change was needed to support overlay color
in dark mode when usingdarkIsTrueBlack
when using the newsurfaceMode
property. For more information see Flutter SDK
issue 90353. -
Fix/Breaking: From the color scheme English descriptions the sentence
end "." was removed from all description strings. If and when you want one,
you can add it as needed. -
New: Added a more flexible and powerful alpha blending feature for
surface and background colors. The new properties in theFlexColorScheme
factorieslight
anddark
aresurfaceMode
, of type enumFlexSurfaceMode
and integerblendLevel
. Consider using them instead of previous
surfaceStyle
.
The surface color blend stylesurfaceStyle
is still default, and not yet
deprecated, but may be so in later versions. It is not really needed anymore,
but there was no major reason to break things by removing it either. -
New: Major new feature; easy sub-theming of Flutter SDK UI widgets.
- You can opt in on nice looking opinionated widget sub-themes by setting
FlexColorScheme.useSubThemes
to true, it is false by default. - The default settings for the sub-theme is inspired by
Material 3 design (M3) It mimics it to large extent
when using default value sub-theme values and settings. The varying corner
radius is different per widget type. The new TextTheme Typography is also
included. All parts cannot be made to look exactly like M3 in Flutter when using
Material 2 design (M2), but many parts
can, and where possible the defaults try follow those values. You can of
course override the default. - You can tweak these sub themes with a number of parameters
defined in theFlexSubThemesData
class, passed to
FlexColorScheme.subThemesData
. - The
FlexSubThemesData
class provides parameters for easy adjustment
of corner radius in Widgets that useShapeBorder
or decorations, that
support changing the Widget's corner radius. With the sub themes enabled, you
can easily create a theme with a consistent corner radius on built-in
Flutter SDK UI widgets. - The widget sub-themes also harmonize a few other styles, e.g.
ToggleButtons
to match the standard buttons regarding size and design as far as possible. - In case you still use the old deprecated buttons, they also get
ButtonThemeData
that as far as possible match the same style. - Via the sub themes it is by default opted-in to also use a bit Material You
like coloring on the text styles. This can also be opted out of, even if
otherwise opting in on sub-themes, it is on by default when opting in on
sub themes.
- You can opt in on nice looking opinionated widget sub-themes by setting
-
New: Added
FlexThemeData
static extension onThemeData
.- FlexColorScheme Themes can now also be created with the new syntax
FlexThemeData.light
andFlexThemeData.dark
, instead of using
FlexColorScheme.light().toTheme
andFlexColorScheme.dark().toTheme
. - The
toTheme
method is still available and works as before. It will not
be deprecated. It is needed when making elaborate custom sub themes beyond
what is offered when usingFlexColorScheme
based opt-in sub themes. When
you make custom sub themes yourself, you often need access to
theColorScheme
that is defined in currentFlexColorScheme()
instance.
You can get it withFlexColorScheme().toScheme
. Then use this
this standardColorScheme
or any of its colors, in your custom sub theme
definitions, that you then add with copyWith to your FlexColorScheme based
theme, likeFlexColorScheme().toTheme.copyWith(..."your sub themes and other ThemeData over-rides here")
.
- FlexColorScheme Themes can now also be created with the new syntax
-
New: Added
textTheme
andprimaryTextTheme
properties to
FlexColorScheme
to enable easy setup of customTextThemes
, without the
need to add a customTextTheme
via acopyWith
, plusmerge
with the
default text theme. -
New: Added
FlexColorScheme.dialogBackground
as a background surface
color that can be controlled and themed separately. -
New: Added
appBarOpacity
toFlexColorScheme.light()
anddark()
.
With it, you can apply themed opacity to theAppBar
background color to
the selectedFlexAppBarStyle
it is using. -
New: On the
FlexColorScheme
factorieslight
anddark
, exposed
theColor
propertiesprimary
,primaryVariant
,secondary
,
sedondaryVariant
,appBarBackground
,dialogBackground
anderror
.
They all default to null, but if provided they can be used as override values
to factory behaviors defined byscheme
,colors
,appBarStyle
,
surfaceMode
andsurfaceStyle
that
otherwise via the factories define the colors for these properties. If a value
for one of the new direct color properties is used with the factory, it always
has precedence over other properties that assign or compute colors for it. -
New: Exposed boolean property
applyElevationOverlayColor
. It has the same
function as the same property inThemeData
. It applies a semi-transparent
overlay color on Material surfaces to indicate elevation for dark themes.
InFlexColorScheme
it defaults to true. In FlutterThemeData.from
it
also default to true, but inThemeData
it defaults to false.
The property is just available for convenience, so you can avoid acopyWith
if you wish to turn it off. It is not necessarily needed or even desired when
using strong alpha blends on surfaces in dark mode, to use an elevation
overlay color. -
New: All
FlexSchemeData
objects inFlexColor
are exposed as static
const objects, making them easy to pick and reuse as const objects
individually in custom color scheme lists, or as input to thecolors
property. Previously only the individual color value definitions were exposed. -
New: Added convenience extension
.blendAlpha()
onColor
inFlexColorExtensions
. -
New: The
FlexThemeModeSwitch
got a bool propertyhasTitle
, if set
tofalse
it removes the title entirely. -
New: The
FlexThemeModeSwitch
got abuttonOrder
property using enum
FlexThemeModeButtonOrder
that you can use to define the order of its
light, system and dark theme mode buttons, in all possible combinations. -
New: Added edgeToEdge support to
FlexColorScheme.themedSystemNavigationBar
. This brings the previously
experimental support for transparent system navigation bar in Android
into the supported fold in FlexColorScheme. Its functionality
requires min Android SDK level 29, but other than that it works without
Android setup shenanigans. No added APIs, the API for it already existed
in previous version of FlexColorScheme, using it did however require
special Android build configuration setup, this is no longer required. -
Change: The
FlexColor.schemesList
is now aconst
for improved
efficiency. -
New color schemes: Added four new built-in color schemes.
Total number of color schemes is now 36 matched light and dark pairs.- Blue whale - Blue whale, jungle green and outrageous tango orange.
Use enum valueFlexScheme.blueWhale
for easy access to it.
This theme is final and selected for inclusion as a new one. - San Juan blue - San Juan blue and pink salmon theme.
Use enum valueFlexScheme.sanJuanBlue
for easy access to it. - Rosewood - Rosewood red, with horses neck and driftwood theme.
Use enum valueFlexScheme.rosewood
for easy access to it. - Blumine - Blumine, easter blue and saffron mango theme.
Use enum valueFlexScheme.blumineBlue
for easy access to it.
- Blue whale - Blue whale, jungle green and outrageous tango orange.
-
Documentation:
- The new main example is a complete quick start guide that doubles as
"developers" hot reload based playground template. It has comments
explaining what is going on.
If you skip reading the readme docs and tutorial, the example may help
to kick-start using FlexColorScheme and all its features. It shows most
of the features in last tutorial example 5, but without any interactive UI.
You are the UI and can edit prop values and use hot-reload to see changes. - All examples now use the new
FlexThemeData
extension syntax to create the
ThemeData
andsurfaceMode
to define the alpha blended surfaces. - Examples 2 to 5 also use the in Flutter 2.5 new skeleton architecture with
a ChangeNotifier based controller, AnimatedBuilder to listen to it and
an abstract service to get and persist the theme settings, with a concrete
in-memory implementation, plus the implementations to persist the theme.- Examples 2 to 4 use the Hive implementation.
- Example 5 uses the SharedPreferences implementation
- The new main example is a complete quick start guide that doubles as
-
TODO Documentation:
- Some older documentation that is not relevant was removed, like older APIs
no longer described in read me, only in API docs. - Almost all screenshots will need to be updated. (sigh)
- Typo review and corrections.
- Some older documentation that is not relevant was removed, like older APIs
-
TODO Tests:
- Added tests for the new features, total 1066 tests,
- Coverage is 98%, a few more tests to be added before release.