Migrate to material_ui

[justinmc]

It was discovered in flutter/flutter#192957 that provider is blocking the framework from deprecating Material because of its customer tests. If we're not able to resolve the failure in the next few days we'll have to disable the customer tests temporarily until it's fixed. This PR should solve the problem, though.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Updated the example app and package validation to use Material UI components consistently.
  • No end-user-facing behavior changes are included in this update.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The example package and provider development dependencies now include material_ui. The example and tests import Material widgets from that package instead of Flutter’s Material library.

Changes

material_ui adoption

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Add material_ui dependencies and imports packages/provider/example/pubspec.yaml, packages/provider/pubspec.yaml, packages/provider/example/lib/main.dart, packages/provider/example/test/widget_test.dart, packages/provider/test/null_safe/consumer_test.dart, packages/provider/test/null_safe/selector_test.dart, packages/provider/analysis_options.yaml	The example and provider development dependencies add material_ui. The example and tests import its Material widgets. The analysis setting remains false.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~7 minutes

Change: Refactor

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c00b3

The example may fail to install its new dependency if their Dart SDK requirements do not overlap. Confirm compatibility before merging.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to c00b3

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: packages/provider

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — packages/provider (library) was modified; 7 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in packages/provider/analysis_options.yaml: The lines_longer_than_80_chars setting is unchanged and remains false.
• observed — Modified behavior in packages/provider/example/lib/main.dart: The material.dart import from Flutter was replaced with an import of material_ui.dart.
• observed — Modified behavior in packages/provider/example/pubspec.yaml: Added material_ui version ^1.0.0 to the example package dependencies.
• observed — Modified behavior in packages/provider/example/test/widget_test.dart: The test replaces its flutter/material.dart import with material_ui/material_ui.dart.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: migrating the provider package and its tests to material_ui.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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Review comments at @packages/provider/example/pubspec.yaml:
- Line 10: Update the example’s SDK constraint in pubspec.yaml so it includes
Dart 3.12, which is required by material_ui ^1.0.0; retain the existing lower
bound unless it prevents a compatible SDK range.

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📒 Files selected for processing (7)

• packages/provider/analysis_options.yaml
• packages/provider/example/lib/main.dart
• packages/provider/example/pubspec.yaml
• packages/provider/example/test/widget_test.dart
• packages/provider/pubspec.yaml
• packages/provider/test/null_safe/consumer_test.dart
• packages/provider/test/null_safe/selector_test.dart

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[justinmc]

Thanks for the speed Remi!