I need a gaming joystick. Not something that hooks up to a computer. I am talking about something like and analog stick that is a part of the controller. I think this will help a lot of people. And I would like to give the person that gave me the code credit for my app... if you are okay with that.

use andEngine. it provides code for that in its samples and it's fairly easy to pluck that out and use it in your own code.

http://www.andengine.org/