figma_glass 0.1.2

Figma's Glass effect for Flutter: real refraction, dispersion and frost, with every Glass panel setting (light, refraction, depth, dispersion, frost, splay).

figma_glass

Figma's Glass effect in Flutter. Every control from Figma's Glass panel is a field you can set: Light angle, Light, Refraction, Depth, Dispersion, Frost and Splay. Copy the numbers from your design and the panel looks the same in your app.

Music player	Wallet	Sign in

Gallery	Playground

All of these screens are in the example app, running on an Android phone.

Features

• All seven Figma Glass settings, with the same names and ranges as in Figma.
• Real refraction: the background bends at the edges of the glass, with optional colour fringing (dispersion), drawn by a fragment shader.
• Smooth Gaussian frost, a light bevel that follows the light angle, plus fill and stroke like Figma's Fill and Stroke sections.
• Works over still backgrounds and over content that scrolls or animates.
• No dependencies besides Flutter.

Install

dependencies:
  figma_glass: ^0.1.1

The shader ships with the package. You don't need to add anything to your app's flutter: shaders: section.

Quick start

Glass needs to know what is behind it. Put the backdrop in GlassBackground.background and the glass panels in its child:

import 'package:figma_glass/figma_glass.dart';
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

class GlassCard extends StatelessWidget {
  const GlassCard({super.key});

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return GlassBackground(
      // What the glass shows through: images, gradients, text...
      background: Image.asset('assets/wallpaper.jpg', fit: BoxFit.cover),
      // The glass panels, on top.
      child: Center(
        child: SizedBox(
          width: 300,
          height: 140,
          child: FigmaGlass(
            settings: const GlassSettings(
              lightAngle: -45,
              lightIntensity: 0.8,
              refraction: 80,
              depth: 20,
              dispersion: 50,
              frost: 4,
              splay: 0,
            ),
            borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(14),
            fill: Colors.white.withValues(alpha: 0.05),
            strokeColor: Colors.white.withValues(alpha: 0.24),
            child: const Center(child: Text('Hello, glass')),
          ),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

From Figma to Flutter

Select the layer in Figma, open the Glass effect and copy each value across:

Figma	GlassSettings	Range	What it does
Light angle	lightAngle	-180 to 180	Where the light comes from. 0 is the top, -45 is top-left
Light	lightIntensity	0 to 1	Brightness of the rim and glow (Figma shows 0–100%)
Refraction	refraction	0 to 100	How much the background bends at the edge
Depth	depth	0 to 100	How far in from the edge the bevel reaches, in logical pixels
Dispersion	dispersion	0 to 100	Colour fringing on the bent edge
Frost	frost	0 to 100	Background blur
Splay	splay	0 to 100	How far the bend spreads towards the middle

The rest of the layer maps to FigmaGlass itself:

Figma	FigmaGlass
Corner radius	borderRadius
Fill (colour and opacity)	fill
Stroke (colour and opacity)	strokeColor, strokeWidth
Layer content	child

Values outside a range are clamped. Use copyWith to change one value, or GlassSettings.lerp to animate between two looks.

Presets

Two starting points, both taken from Figma Glass examples:

• GlassSettings.input: a thin, sharp edge with strong refraction and colour fringing. Good for text fields, buttons and chips.
• GlassSettings.card: flat frosted glass with a soft, wide highlight and no bending. Good for large panels.

FigmaGlass(settings: GlassSettings.card.copyWith(frost: 12))

Scrolling and animated backgrounds

GlassBackground takes a snapshot of background whenever background repaints: after the first frame, when an image in it finishes loading, when it animates, or when its size changes. Rebuilding the screen without changing the background (a setState for a button, typing in a field) takes no new snapshot.

Some content moves without repainting the background: ListView items, for example, sit on their own layers and only slide when you scroll. For a list that scrolls under a glass tab bar, set continuous: true so the snapshot is taken every frame:

GlassBackground(
  continuous: true,
  background: ListView(children: posts),
  child: Stack(
    children: [
      Positioned(left: 20, right: 20, bottom: 24, child: GlassTabBar()),
    ],
  ),
)

Touches on empty parts of child pass through to background, so the list still scrolls. The glass panels themselves can move freely (drag them, put them in a scrolling list) without continuous; only a changing backdrop needs it.

Rules for a correct result

• Don't put glass inside background. It would show up in its own snapshot.
• background fills the whole GlassBackground. Anything the glass should show through has to be in it.
• Content that is drawn above the glass, or outside background, isn't refracted.

Fine tuning

GlassCalibration holds the gains used to match Figma's rendering. The defaults are tuned against Figma, so you shouldn't need to change them. They are there if your design needs a brighter rim or a softer frost:

Field	Default	Effect
glowGain	1.3	Brightness of the soft glow along the bevel
rimGain	0.55	Brightness of the thin rim
oppositePeak	0.85	Rim brightness on the side away from the light
darkFloor	0.04	Rim brightness where the edge is side-on to the light
frostScale	0.35	Blur per unit of Frost
refractionGain	1	Multiplies the edge bend

FigmaGlass(calibration: const GlassCalibration(rimGain: 0.8), ...)

How it works

1. GlassBackground renders background into a snapshot image each time it repaints.
2. Each FigmaGlass blurs only the part of the snapshot under itself (plus the margin that refraction and the blur reach into) with a Gaussian blur for Frost, and reuses it until the snapshot, Frost or its position changes.
3. A fragment shader draws the blurred region inside the rounded rectangle, pulling samples inward near the edge (refraction) and splitting the red and blue channels (dispersion).
4. Fill, the light bevel, stroke and child are painted on top with normal Flutter painting.

Without a GlassBackground above it, FigmaGlass falls back to a BackdropFilter blur with the same fill, light and stroke, but no refraction.

Performance

• A still background costs one snapshot, plus one small blur per glass panel. Nothing is redone while the screen is idle.
• Snapshots and blurs are made synchronously, so the glass always matches the frame it is drawn in; it doesn't lag behind or flicker while scrolling.
• continuous: true takes a snapshot every frame and blurs each panel's region again. That's fine for a few bars or buttons over a list. With many large panels, measure in --profile mode on a real device.
• Memory stays flat: on a Galaxy A36, a minute of continuous scrolling in the feed demo and 50 page opens and closes across the demos showed no growth.

Try the example

cd example
flutter run --release

The gallery has a tab bar over a feed, a music player, a wallet card (drag it to move the light), a sign-in form and a playground with a slider for every setting.

Platforms

Android	iOS	Web
✅	✅	✅

Tested on Android with Impeller (Vulkan). iOS and web use the same Flutter APIs (fragment shaders and RepaintBoundary snapshots) but haven't been tested on devices yet. Reports are welcome in the issue tracker.

Requirements

Flutter 3.44 or newer, Dart 3.12 or newer.

Support

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License

MIT. See LICENSE.

This package is not affiliated with or endorsed by Figma. "Figma" is a trademark of Figma, Inc., and is used here only to describe the effect.