what is the best practice regarding the

Component

to use to just represent the

background

? I understand the in MaterialTheme the

Surface

has a similar goal, but it takes by default the

surfaceColor

. In my case where I want the same practical use but so that the background color is always

backgroundColor

. From looking at usages, it seems only

Scaffold

actually uses this color, but internally still uses a

Surface

and changes the background color.

either: 1 pass a different argument to surface

Surface(color = MaterialTheme.colors.background,…

or 2 Create a composable wrapping surface:

@Composable fun BackgroundSurface(color: Color = MaterialTheme.colors.background, …) {
  Surface(color = color, …)
}

ah great, I actually had followed number 2 ! thanks again for all the support here. the experience we are having of migrating our design system to Compose has been extremely good!