Why Flutter IconButton Animation Shows Under the Row

Question

In my app, I setup a IconButton to render over a Row with a color background. Unfortunately, the ripple animation on button press renders under the Row (as shown in the screencast). How do i make the ripple show over the Row?

class Card extends StatelessWidget {
final Issue issue;
Color _bgColor;

Card({this.issue}) {
  _bgColor = colorSwatch[issue.hashCode % colorSwatch.length];
}

@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
  return Container(
    margin: EdgeInsets.only(top: 12, left: 18, right: 18),
    padding: EdgeInsets.only(top: 8, bottom: 8),
    decoration: new BoxDecoration(
      color: _bgColor,
      border: new Border.all(color: _bgColor),
      borderRadius: BorderRadius.all(
          Radius.circular(10.0) 
          ),
    ),
    child: Row(children: [
      IconButton(
        padding: EdgeInsets.only(right: 16),
        icon: Icon(Icons.play_arrow, color: Colors.white, size: 48),
        tooltip: 'Start ${issue.issueName}',
        onPressed: () {},
      ),
      Expanded(
        child: Column(
          crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
          children: [
            Container(
              padding: const EdgeInsets.only(bottom: 8),
              child: Text(
                issue.title,
                style: TextStyle(
                  color: Colors.white,
                  fontWeight: FontWeight.bold,
                ),
                softWrap: true,
              ),
            ),
            Text(
              issue.issueName,
              style: TextStyle(
                color: Colors.white,
              ),
            ),
          ],
        ),
      ),
    ]));
  }
}

Answer 1

The ripple is part of the Material effect. Wrap your IconButton with Material:

Material(
  color: _bgColor,
  child: IconButton(
    padding: EdgeInsets.only(right: 16),
    icon: Icon(Icons.play_arrow, color: Colors.white, size: 48),
    tooltip: 'Start ${issue.issueName}',
    onPressed: () {},
  ),
),

---

UPDATE

To be more specific to your goal, you can replace your Container with Material.

return Material(
  color: _bgColor,
  borderRadius: BorderRadius.all(Radius.circular(10.0)),
  child: Container(
     margin: EdgeInsets.only(top: 12, left: 18, right: 18),
     padding: EdgeInsets.only(top: 8, bottom: 8),
     backgroundBlendMode: BlendMode.multiply,
     child: Row(
     ...
  ),
);

Answer 2

It looks like a bug in the Flutter Framework. This occurs only with IconButton, no problem with FlatButton.

Possible workaround is to set BlendMode to multiply BlendMode.multiply.
try this:

Container(
          decoration: BoxDecoration(
              color: Colors.greenAccent[400],
              backgroundBlendMode: BlendMode.multiply),
          child: ListTile(
            leading: IconButton(icon: Icon(Icons.play_arrow), onPressed: () {}),
            title: Text("issue title"),
            subtitle: Text("description"),
          ),
        ),

Update
issue on github