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Checkboxes, radio buttons and switches encode different semantics — multiple choice, exclusive choice, and immediate effect. Choosing by appearance produces interfaces that mislead, and the accessibility story differs too.
Material 3 ships five button styles plus the FAB. They form an emphasis hierarchy, and the selection rule is about how many actions compete on a screen rather than about how each one looks.
Scaffold arranges the app shell and hands back the insets its own bars consume. Ignoring that PaddingValues is the single most common Compose layout bug, and edge-to-edge makes it worse.
