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Currently, the focus highlight can only be shown when [FocusManager.highlightMode] is [FocusHighlightMode.traditional],
Sometimes, showing the focus highlight is useful for the touch device widget, such as highlight the selected item of DropdownButton, so I add a property alwaysShowFocusColor of InkWell to make it optinal.

I also improve some documentations about focusColor and [FocusManager.highlightMode] behavior.

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Fixes #70294

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Hi @xu-baolin,

Thanks for the PR, but I'd rather not add this parameter to InkWell, I think it's redundant. You can already do what you want by setting FocusManager.instance.highlightStrategy to FocusHighlightStrategy.alwaysTraditional, which will enable focus highlights to be shown even on a device in touch mode.

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But this doesn't seem to work for this issue scenario. I just want to let some widget response instead of making all of them respond focus change.

@HansMuller HansMuller changed the title InkWell can show focusColor optinal on touch device InkWell can show focusColor optional on touch device Nov 19, 2020
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I'd prefer to avoid adding one-off flags like alwaysShowFocusColor.

It's not possible to use the FocusManager, since it's a singleton and can't be used to override highlightStrategy within a subtree (i.e. for just one DropdownButton's menu).

I think what's really needed is a way to specify how menu item highlights are computed for the selected/focused/etc states. I think we could do that without hijacking the focus manager's highlightMode property, by exposing the per-item InkWell overlayColor property in DropdownButton and by folding in the MaterialState.selected state, so overlayColor (MaterialStateProperty<Color>)values could select a color based on each item's disabled, hovered, pressed, focused, and selected state.

switch (FocusManager.instance.highlightMode) {
case FocusHighlightMode.touch:
showFocus = false;
showSelect = true;
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For touch devices, do not display the focus color, try to display the selected color(if set by overlayColor) instead.

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Why not "expose the per-item InkWell overlayColor property in DropdownButton" so that the color of menu items for all states could be specified with DropdownButton.itemOverlayColor?

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Why not "expose the per-item InkWell overlayColor property in DropdownButton" so that the color of menu items for all states could be specified with DropdownButton.itemOverlayColor?

Done.

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How would a developer override the default overlayColor you've added?

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How would a developer override the default overlayColor you've added?

Override the ThemeData for the subtree, the same as before this change.

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Hi guys, Any thoughts about this patch?

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I appreciate the work you've put into this PR, and I apologize for only being a "drive by" reviewer.

I think we're going to need to sort out a general solution per #70442 (comment), for all components that can take the focus when they're used in desktop applications. I'm going to close this PR to give everyone a chance to think about how best to solve (and explain) a general solution.

Sorry about the long delay and for the effort you've put into this.

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Fix #70294

### Description

The bug is about the previously selected DropdownMenuItem isn't
highlighted on mobile while it works on Web and desktop. The reason is
that `FocusManager.instance.highlightMode` has fallen to
`FocusHighlightMode.touch` on mobile by default (or touch device without
mouse in general):


https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/6f220d3ec0948a4def1622de805fabda9855338d/packages/flutter/lib/src/material/dropdown.dart#L172-L175


https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/7d56be4c8de814022357633179a816b51ffca4b8/packages/flutter/lib/src/widgets/focus_manager.dart#L2335-L2353


https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/7d56be4c8de814022357633179a816b51ffca4b8/packages/flutter/lib/src/widgets/focus_manager.dart#L1741-L1748

We actually can work around this by setting
`FocusManager.instance.highlightStrategy` to
`FocusHighlightStrategy.alwaysTraditional`, see
#70442 (comment).
Nevertheless, this approach will may affect the entire scope of the app,
potentially resulting in unforeseen behavior for other widgets. 

In this PR, I propose a straightforward solution that utilizes an
ancestor widget (Ink) to manage the color state corresponding to
`InkWell.overlayColor`.

### Demo the fix


https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b6476732-716c-4f39-ab82-7ab5accb7182


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- [x] I listed at least one issue that this PR fixes in the description
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- [x] I updated/added relevant documentation (doc comments with `///`).
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[mobile] Selected DropdownMenuItem isn't highlighted on mobile only

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