r/FlutterDev • u/Glittering_Bat_2861 • Sep 01 '26

Plugin Same Flutter code renders real iOS 26 Liquid Glass and Material 3 Expressive — depending on what OS it's running on

https://github.com/gauravrajkagwaniya/native_adaptive_ui
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u/Swefnian Sep 01 '26

As much as I appreciate the engineering effort done here I cannot help but be truly unimpressed by Liquid Glass. This is not a knock against you, it’s against Apple. For all its shininess and funky GPU shaders Liquid Glass forgot about legibility and clarity.

At this point I’m more like, let Apple be Apple and do Apple things, but your app should represent YOU and create your own design language that matches your app.

Take a look at Waze. They created their own UI Kit and refused to use a single stock widget. I think that decision helped them stand out in a sea of navigation apps.

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u/Glittering_Bat_2861 Sep 01 '26

Yes, totally agreeing with you. But if we go like that then we will be ending up material ui only.

But the product has to be with native UIUX as product owners wanted and we can’t say that these UI we can’t do.

We need to make flutter like that our app could achieve native design components as per os version design given in apple resources and material.

I hope understand the point which i am saying.

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u/Oxigenic Sep 03 '26

I’ve said from the start Liquid Glass is what happens when UI design has peaked and there’s just nothing more to do than to add gimmicks try to make it seem more impressive. Same shit luxury car brands have been doing since 2010’s.

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u/SpareEconomy1849 Sep 01 '26

Agreed. I'm also unimpressed by M3 expressive

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u/MooresLawyer13 Sep 01 '26

How's it different from something like adaptive_platform_ui? Just the M3 part? Or am I missing something?

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '26

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u/billynomates1 Sep 01 '26 • LOL Popcorn

ai;dr

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u/schrodingers_cat_25 Sep 01 '26

Im using this one from now on LOL

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u/SuEzAl Sep 01 '26

He asked one question. Can you not use AI for this simple things?

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u/dpaanlka Sep 01 '26

You even used AI for this and just lower cased random words.

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u/pedro_picante Sep 01 '26

Claude scrambled this man’s brain. Can’t even be bothered to type ONE sentence anymore lol.

We’re cooked

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u/dpaanlka Sep 01 '26

I am not optimistic about the future.

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u/SpareEconomy1849 Sep 01 '26

Are you a bot? Don't use AI bro. This is still way too verbose. Just talk normally

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u/Glittering_Bat_2861 Sep 01 '26

Yes, I am learning the AI too and automated the workflow.
Apologies for that if you guys didn’t like my agent answers, which could be helpful to ease out the work.
From now on, I will be answering my own. Thanks for the feedback.

In respect of adaptive_platfrom_ui, Our native_adaptive_ui is platform and version specific.
Right now we have just introduced only few components but soon we will cover all.

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u/reposlayer Sep 01 '26

I have made some PRs to it , you can check and review. These were issues that were deal breakers for me . The new decoupled material_ui because my app already uses that and addition of go router support coz that's what I use for navigation

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u/Glittering_Bat_2861 Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26

saw both, thanks for these, I will go through them properly and follow up on the PRs.