MylesCaley

 // force blinking the cursor
 self!.inputTextField.inputView = UIView()
 self!.inputTextField.becomeFirstResponder()

//re-enable for when user actually clicks
inputTextField.rx.controlEvent(.touchDown).subscribe(onNext: { [weak self] _ in
      guard let _ = self else { return }
      self!.inputTextField.inputView = nil
      self!.inputTextField.reloadInputViews()
    }).addDisposableTo(rx_disposeBag)

MylesCaley

func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, heightForAnnotationAtIndexPath indexPath: IndexPath, withWidth width: CGFloat) -> CGFloat {
   
  
    let x = dataSource?[indexPath]
    let font = UIFont(name: "OpenSans", size: 11)!

    let rect = NSString(string: x?.brief ?? "").boundingRect(with: CGSize(width: width, height: CGFloat(MAXFLOAT)), options: .usesLineFragmentOrigin, attributes: [NSFontAttributeName: font], context: nil)
    
    // if multiple types
    

MylesCaley

//this takes a list of items in an array, then runs an observable on each of them, finally it combines
//all of the outputs into one observable which returns all of the media items at once

Observable.combineLatest(mediaItems.map({ $0.getMediaMetadataObservable() })).subscribe(onNext: { a in
      for item in a {
        print (item.type)
      }
})