Shadows now render as three seprate MaskFilter.blur components per the most recent Material spec. The shadows Map was replaced by a similar Map called elevationToShadow with entries that match the 10 elevations specifed by http://www.google.com/design/spec/what-is-material/elevation-shadows.html. The "level" property (many classes) is now called "elevation", to match the Material spec. BoxShadow now includes a spreadRadius parameter - as in CSS box-shadow. Renamed the BoxShadow blur property to blurRadius to further align BoxShadow with CSS box-shadow.
Small examples of the Flutter widget framework
To run these, open a terminal in this directory and use the following command:
flutter start --checked -t foo.dart
...where foo.dart is the file you want to run.