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Design

Building a Compose design system

How we built reusable tokens and components from scratch.

Jun 28 · 5 min read

Installation

caveui components are copy-paste Jetpack Compose built entirely on Material 3 — there's no caveui dependency to add. Make sure Material 3 is on your classpath (it ships with the Compose BOM), then copy the Usage snippet below into your project.

kotlin

// build.gradle.kts (module)
dependencies {
    implementation(platform("androidx.compose:compose-bom:2025.06.00"))
    implementation("androidx.compose.material3:material3")
}

Usage

kotlin

CaveCard {
    Box(
        Modifier
            .fillMaxWidth()
            .height(96.dp)
            .background(Brush.linearGradient(listOf(Color(0xFFFB7185), Color(0xFFD946EF)))),
    )
    AssistChip(onClick = {}, label = { Text("Design") })
    Text("Building a Compose design system", style = typography.titleMedium)
    Text("How we built reusable tokens and components from scratch.", color = onSurfaceVariant)
    Row(verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically) {
        Icon(Icons.Filled.DateRange, null)
        Text("Jun 28 · 5 min read", color = onSurfaceVariant)
    }
}