In my app I had a folder of images from which I was getting the names to use as keys to a Dictionary. I have now moved all images to an asset catalog and created groups for
So (following matt's suggestion) here is what I did:
I created a RunScript build phase to run before compiling

and used a script to create a txt file with the names of the files that I can then use during runtime
#!/bin/sh
>./your_app_folder/fileNames.txt
for FILE in ./your_app_folder/Images.xcassets/actions/*; do
echo $FILE >> ./your_app_folder/fileNames.txt
done