---
name: floret-kit
order: 3
status: Design system
released: false
platform: Android library
license: MIT
summary: >-
  The shared Material 3 Expressive design system and plumbing behind the Floret
  app family — so each app draws from one bloom instead of reinventing it.
tech:
  - Kotlin
  - Jetpack Compose
  - Gradle composite build
features:
  - title: Built from source
    body: >-
      Embedded as a git submodule and wired in with a Gradle composite build —
      no published artifacts, which keeps every app reproducible for F-Droid.
  - title: Identity and components
    body: >-
      The M3 Expressive theme factory, navigation motion and predictive-back
      peek, plus the shared Compose vocabulary each screen is written out of —
      grouped rows, inline fields, option cards, full-screen pickers,
      collapsing scaffolds.
  - title: Plumbing, not looks
    body: >-
      core-time (local-day windows, locale-aware formatting), core-reminders
      (lead-time model and codec), core-locale (per-app language), core-crash
      (on-device capture and issue hand-off) — each app layers its own storage
      and strings on top.
  - title: Mechanics shared, look per-app
    body: >-
      The principle the kit is held to: a component moves here once two apps
      need the same behaviour, while palette and personality stay with the app.
links:
  codeberg: https://codeberg.org/jlmakiola/floret-kit
  donate: https://ko-fi.com/jeanlucmakiola
---

"Floret" is the family's design language: a Calendula flower head is a cluster
of many small *florets*, and each app is one of them. floret-kit is the bloom
they share — so a new app doesn't reinvent a settings screen, an edit form, or a
theme; it draws from here. Gradle's dependency substitution maps
`de.jeanlucmakiola.floret:<module>` to local source, so editing the kit updates
every app immediately.