In react native if you want to list all the assets (base directory files and folder), use the following in the onCreate method of MainApplication.java
AssetManager assetManager = getApplicationContext().getAssets();
try {
String[] filelist = assetManager.list("");
System.out.println(fileList().length
);
System.out.println("The list of files.");
for(String name:filelist){
System.out.println(name);
}
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("IO Excpetion");
}