Publish the material_ui migration of devtools_extensions and devtools_app_shared #10062

Summary

devtools_extensions and devtools_app_shared on pub.dev are still the May 4, 2026 releases (0.5.1). Both import package:flutter/material.dart. Flutter beta deprecates that library, and extension authors cannot switch to package:material_ui until these packages are published, because DevToolsExtension builds its own MaterialApp from whichever Material library it was compiled against.

The migration already landed on master in #10016 (September 24, 2026) and is in the DevTools 2.61.0 tag. Both packages are 0.5.2-wip there and depend on material_ui: ^1.4.0. That DevTools release shipped the app into the Dart SDK only. tool/RELEASE_INSTRUCTIONS.md publishes devtools_extensions, devtools_app_shared, and devtools_shared separately, as needed, and this publish was never requested. There is no open issue tracking it.

Downstream example: IO-Design-Team/hive_ce#350. The Hive inspector is holding deprecated_member_use ignores on package:flutter/material.dart until a pub.dev release exists. TextTheme.of and ScaffoldMessenger.of only see the theme installed by DevToolsExtension when the inspector imports the same Material library.

What is on pub.dev today

The unpublished SDK floor (sdk: ^3.11.0, flutter: ^3.41.0) is already behind stable (Flutter 3.47.9 / Dart 3.13.7).

Publish prep

These three things are still open on master, so this is not a version-number drop:

1. Publish devtools_shared 14.0.1 first. devtools_extensions and devtools_app_shared constrain it to ^14.0.1, and 14.0.0 is the newest version on pub.dev.
2. Raise devtools_extensions's devtools_app_shared constraint. It is still ^0.5.1, which resolves to the published package that imports package:flutter/material.dart. The lower bound needs to be the material_ui release of devtools_app_shared.
3. Note the material_ui switch in both changelogs. The 0.5.2-wip notes do not mention it. This is breaking for extension UIs: DevToolsExtension builds a material_ui MaterialApp, and shared widgets take Material types from that library (for example DevToolsToggleButton.shape is OutlinedBorder). Theme lookups (TextTheme.of, ScaffoldMessenger.of) read a different inherited widget than package:flutter/material.dart.

Please publish devtools_app_shared and devtools_extensions together once those constraints match.