I am at a loss about getting depth of field to work for android test level deployment...

I faced the same problem, but after following the documentation I got it to work

The mobile film tonemapper can be enabled or disabled, I tried it both ways and it doesn’t matter, at least for ES3. What I was missing was enabling the scale property of the DOF and increasing the number, this is required when using Gaussian blur which is what is used on mobile.

Hope this helps someone.