How to calibrate a Mac Monitor for iPhone development

Question

How to calibrate a Mac monitor to match the iPhone's colours?

What is the iPhone's gamma?

Thank you.

Answer 1

According to this article, the gamma is 1.8, which is what Mac OSX Leopard was. Snow Leopard is now 2.2, similar to Windows gamma settings. I recently designed a iPhone app on Leopard and it's comparable to it running on the iPhone. What I recommend you do to be safe is export your design to a png and load it into an ImageView in interface builder. Then you can "quick compile" that and preview it on your phone or simulator. There's no better test for iPhone apps than being installed on the device.