With AI, a polished look costs nothing. Native brings what can’t be drawn, and it moves with the system, one step ahead of what imitates it.An AI assistant helped me write this. The ideas, the experience and the final edit are mine.In June 2025, Apple introduced Liquid Glass, the new material of iOS 26. In its WWDC session on UIKit, the company put it plainly: “Your apps get this new appearance as soon as you recompile with the new SDK.” Bars, sheets, popovers and controls: most of what comes from the system frameworks changed at once, without a designer touching it.Apps that drew their own controls got nothing. The next day, the Flutter team replied on GitHub that it was not developing Apple’s new design in its Cupertino library, the one that imitates iOS, for now. Its documentation presents drawing your own controls as a benefit: a Flutter app “looks and feels the same on all...