diff --git a/lib/ui/painting.dart b/lib/ui/painting.dart
index b4e4369884860..5e96751c289ff 100644
--- a/lib/ui/painting.dart
+++ b/lib/ui/painting.dart
@@ -4267,48 +4267,6 @@ class FragmentShader extends Shader {
   Float32List _floats = _kEmptyFloat32List;
 
   /// Sets the float uniform at [index] to [value].
-  ///
-  /// All uniforms defined in a fragment shader that are not samplers must be
-  /// set through this method. This includes floats and vec2, vec3, and vec4.
-  /// The correct index for each uniform is determined by the order of the
-  /// uniforms as defined in the fragment program, ignoring any samplers. For
-  /// data types that are composed of multiple floats such as a vec4, more than
-  /// one call to [setFloat] is required.
-  ///
-  /// For example, given the following uniforms in a fragment program:
-  ///
-  /// ```glsl
-  /// uniform float uScale;
-  /// uniform sampler2D uTexture;
-  /// uniform vec2 uMagnitude;
-  /// uniform vec4 uColor;
-  /// ```
-  ///
-  /// Then the corresponding Dart code to correctly initialize these uniforms
-  /// is:
-  ///
-  /// ```dart
-  /// void updateShader(Shader shader, Color color, ImageShader sampler) {
-  ///   shader.setFloat(0, 23);  // uScale
-  ///   shader.setFloat(1, 114); // uMagnitude x
-  ///   shader.setFloat(2, 83);  // uMagnitude y
-  ///
-  ///   // Convert color to premultiplied opacity.
-  ///   shader.setFloat(3, color.red / 255 * color.opacity);   // uColor r
-  ///   shader.setFloat(4, color.green / 255 * color.opacity); // uColor g
-  ///   shader.setFloat(5, color.blue / 255 * color.opacity);  // uColor b
-  ///   shader.setFloat(6, color.opacity);                     // uColor a
-  ///
-  ///   // initialize sampler uniform.
-  ///   shader.setSampler(0, sampler);
-  /// }
-  /// ```
-  ///
-  /// Note how the indexes used does not count the `sampler2D` uniform. This
-  /// uniform will be set separately with [setSampler], with the index starting
-  /// over at 0.
-  ///
-  /// Any float uniforms that are left uninitialized will default to `0`.
   void setFloat(int index, double value) {
     assert(!debugDisposed, 'Tried to accesss uniforms on a disposed Shader: $this');
     _floats[index] = value;
@@ -4316,9 +4274,6 @@ class FragmentShader extends Shader {
 
   /// Sets the sampler uniform at [index] to [sampler].
   ///
-  /// The index of the setSampler is the index of the sampler uniform defined
-  /// in the fragment program, excluding all non-sampler uniforms.
-  ///
   /// All the sampler uniforms that a shader expects must be provided or the
   /// results will be undefined.
   void setSampler(int index, ImageShader sampler) {