Cant use a controller on fire tablet 7

So i wanted to play pocket edition on my Fire tablet with a Xbox one controller (the new one with the headphone jack) and created a world and i could walk forward and backward nothing else worked. 

So since i had the google play version of this game i connected my controller to my phone and loaded up minecraft went into a world and the controller worked perfectly just like the controls on xbox one

The controller works great on an android device but the fire tablet 7 did not work at all. I want this to work because my fire tablet has a bigger screen than my 5 inch phone.