How to Change Floating Action Button Color in Flutter?

Last Updated : 28 Apr, 2025

Every Android application has the floatingActionButton in it. There is a possibility that there are multiple screens in the application and have floatingActionButton on that screens, then we need to give the colors property to every floatingActionButton. But Flutter resolves this by changing the themeData class in the materialApp widget. Now we can set the properties globally of the floatingActionButton and these changes are reflected in every FloatingActionButton in the Flutter application. A sample video is given below to get an idea about what we are going to do in this article.

Step By Step Implementation

Step 1: Create a New Project in Android Studio

To set up Flutter Development on Android Studio please refer to Android Studio Setup for Flutter Development, and then create a new project in Android Studio please refer to Creating a Simple Application in Flutter.

Step 2: Locate the MaterialApp widget

Dart

class runMyApp extends StatefulWidget {
  const runMyApp({super.key});
 @override
  State<runMyApp> createState() => _runMyAppState();
}
class _runMyAppState extends State<runMyApp> {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp( 
        useMaterial3: true,
      ),
      title: 'FAB',
      );
  }
}

Step 3: Inside that, Locate the themeData class.

Dart

 Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      debugShowCheckedModeBanner: false,
      theme: ThemeData(),   // themeData
        useMaterial3: true,
      ),
      title: 'FAB',
    );
  }
}

Step 4: Inside that, Add the floatingActionButtonTheme parameter and then assign FloatingActionButtonThemeData. And then add the properties of the color.

Dart

Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      debugShowCheckedModeBanner: false,
      theme: ThemeData(
        primarySwatch: Colors.green,
        floatingActionButtonTheme: const FloatingActionButtonThemeData(
          backgroundColor: Colors.green,
          foregroundColor: Colors.black,
          hoverColor: Colors.red,
          splashColor: Colors.white,
        ),
        useMaterial3: true,
      ),
      title: 'FAB',
    );
  }
}

Code Example:

Dart

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

void main() {
  // runApp method that 
  // calls the runMyApp class
  runApp(const runMyApp()); 
}

class runMyApp extends StatefulWidget {
  const runMyApp({super.key});

  @override
  State<runMyApp> createState() => _runMyAppState();
}

class _runMyAppState extends State<runMyApp> {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(  
      debugShowCheckedModeBanner: false,
      theme: ThemeData(  
        primarySwatch: Colors.green,
        floatingActionButtonTheme: const FloatingActionButtonThemeData(
          backgroundColor: Colors.green,
          foregroundColor: Colors.black,
          hoverColor: Colors.red,
          splashColor: Colors.white,
        ),
        useMaterial3: true,
      ),
      title: 'FAB',
      home: Scaffold(
        appBar: AppBar(
          title: Text('Floating Action Button'),
        ),
        floatingActionButton: FloatingActionButton(
          child:  Icon(Icons.menu),
          onPressed: (() {}),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}